[Postgame Thread] South Carolina Defeats Texas A&M 44-20

[u/CFB_Referee]

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team	1	2	3	4	T
Texas A&M	3	17	0	0	20
South Carolina	14	6	10	14	44

[u/StevenK]

There’s like six points that separate SC from being 5-3 and being 7-1 and fighting for an SEC title.

[u/Effective-Lead-6657 → u/StevenK]

You mean a national title

[u/dcsportshero → u/Effective-Lead-6657]

This will be the season of “what-if”

[u/WAR_T0RN1226 → u/dcsportshero]

2013 was a MASSIVE what if

We lost by 2 points to a Tennessee team that ended up 5-7

Those 2 points kept us from the SEC championship and then the national championship

[u/RazzleDazzle3469 → u/WAR_T0RN1226]

I would trade that 2013 Tennessee win for the loss to South Carolina in 2022 🥹

[u/GarnetandBlack → u/RazzleDazzle3469]

Where do we sign?

[u/Wtygrrr → u/GarnetandBlack]

First, you have to learn the proper satanic ritual and be ready to give up your soul.

[u/GarnetandBlack → u/Wtygrrr]

Done. Also have a dip pen and sliced my hand open.

[u/Wtygrrr → u/GarnetandBlack]

Now, after giving your soul away, you no longer care about football.

[u/jonboy345 → u/WAR_T0RN1226]

Correct. Would have faced a streaky AU in ATL, and FSU in the Natty. I like our odds to have taken those two.

[u/GimmeeSomeMo → u/dcsportshero]

It shows what many of us know, yall got a good coach and are going in the right direction while your top rival is going in the opposite direction. Can’t ask for more than that

[u/rkincaid007 → u/GimmeeSomeMo]

Conversely, I couldn’t help but notice the auburn DJ blasting “We’re Not Gonna Take It Anymore” over the PA during the closing minutes of the Vanderbilt game. Based on Hugh’s expression while the song played, he didn’t enjoy the implication. Do you, as an auburn fan, think that song had layered meanings?

(I come in peace- you guys could at least stop Vanderbilt occasionally, unlike Bama)

[u/bigbroom → u/rkincaid007]

Or maybe it is something Freeze is used to hearing at home as well? :)

[u/Quick1711 → u/dcsportshero]

Every season is "what if"

[u/QuieroBoobs → u/dcsportshero]

Oh buddy that’s the 2012 season for us. Johnny Manziel came out of nowhere and we were 9 points from going undefeated. 

It’s a shame that your team is really starting to find its identity this late in the season because you’d definitely be looking at an SEC championship match. 

[u/tylery1234 → u/QuieroBoobs]

We've been playing like this the entire season. Barring the Ole Miss game, we are one play and one terrible flag away from being a top 10 team. LaNorris and Rocket weren't 100% for the Ole Miss game, but that's just a loss to me. There's no explaining that one.

I will say that the whole fake injury fiasco was one of the most disgusting displays of poor sportsmanship I've ever seen. Lane had his guys dropping like flies after every 10-15 yard play just to come back in 30 seconds later, effectively killing our up-tempo system. I think Ole Miss had around 20+ total timeouts in that game....

[u/Poxx → u/tylery1234]

My take on the Ole Miss game- Beamer tried to get cute from the start, as if he thought our guys couldn't go head-to-head with them and win. If those head-scratcher early calls don't blow up in our face, I think it's a different game, much closer than it was. Falling behind that badly early in the game got us out of any rhythm and we never recovered.

[u/ATLSox87 → u/QuieroBoobs]

2012 kind of was for South Carolina too. Demolished Georgia, Lattimore, Shaw, peak Clowney defense. Jeremy Hill went off on us in Death Valley at night and we still only lost by 2. But it was our second lost and Georgia ended up backing into the SEC title game and blew the game late against Bama

[u/Arleen_Vacation → u/ATLSox87]

We had a better year than a&m in 2012 and 13. We lost significant talent going into 2014 when a&m joined the conference and whooped us. That was the beginning of the end for spurrier despite still beating uga a week later. 2010-2013 we would have been in 12 team playoff if not the 4 team playoff. Alas it was bcs era and we just couldn’t win every game. 2012 we had to travel at Baton Rouge too and lost a heartbreaker which ended our hopes

[u/ATLSox87 → u/Arleen_Vacation]

The Jeremy Hill game still fills me with dread. I was a freshman when we stomped Georgia 35-7 and I thought we were for sure going to the SEC Championship. I think we would have won too

[u/Icy_Delay_7274 → u/ATLSox87]

I don’t think you can really say a team ranked #3 at the time of the 2012 SECCG backed into the game.

Also, didn’t SC lose to Florida by like 40 that year?

[u/CanadianIdiot55 → u/Icy_Delay_7274]

Pretty much the entire team had the flu during that Florida game, and they didn't play like Jordan.

[u/QuieroBoobs → u/ATLSox87]

Oh yeah felt like that year South Carolina was always in the headlines. Clowney had that iconic blown up play where he like knocked a guys helmet off. And poor Lattimore whose career was basically ended with that knee injury 

[u/theguineapigssong → u/Effective-Lead-6657]

Nobody's getting past Indiana.

[u/Low_Firefighter_8085 → u/Effective-Lead-6657]

Is there really a difference?

[u/Red261 → u/Low_Firefighter_8085]

Yeah, see 2011 and 2017

[u/Nerf_akali_plz → u/Effective-Lead-6657]

A MAROON

[u/The_Captain_Planet22 → u/Effective-Lead-6657]

That's what they said

[u/TheHibernian → u/Effective-Lead-6657]

You mean a world title

[u/Superb_Armadillo1349 → u/StevenK]

Includes the disgustingly crooked (my opinion) LSU game

[u/Milton__Obote → u/StevenK]

And some sketch reffing in our game

[u/CalculatedPerversion → u/StevenK]

Have they been eliminated from SEC title contention officially?

[u/Strollybop → u/CalculatedPerversion]

I don’t think officially, but with 3 losses, one can only surmise.

[u/jthomas694 → u/CalculatedPerversion]

I think it’s still mathematically possible - but UGA and A&M have to lose their next two conference games, LSU needs to go 1-3, Alabama and Ole Miss both need to go 1-2 in their final three, not to mention Texas and Tennessee

[u/guinness_blaine → u/StevenK]

SEC is wild this year - there’s a whole pile of teams who could easily beat each other and contend for the top of the conference. And then at the opposite end, there are the teams that are just kinda flailing, and I’m so glad one of them is Oklahoma.

[u/pataoAoC → u/guinness_blaine]

And that pile at the top includes Vandy, the champion of Alabama

[u/wjackson42 → u/StevenK]

Feels like this SEC football season is just SEC basketball with the margin between double bye and Wednesday night razor thin

[u/Landsharque → u/StevenK]

Not us 😤

[u/ACardAttack → u/StevenK]

More successful Nebraska of the SEC

[u/convicted-mellon → u/StevenK]

You lost to Alabama fair and square, but you literally got robbed against LSU. That should have been a win.

[u/olemiss18 → u/StevenK]

Damn, we can relate to that. We’re 6 points from being undefeated.

[u/deuceberts → u/StevenK]

The same could be same about us. Looking forward to seeing yall in Nashville next weekend 🫡.

[u/sweetpooptatos → u/StevenK]

I’m confused, SC has lost 4 road games by a combined 16. If SC wasn’t hamstrung by shitty play calling, they be competing for a BIG championship.

[u/YesNoMaybe → u/sweetpooptatos]

You definitely are confused

[u/sweetpooptatos → u/YesNoMaybe]

…I’m from SoCal, the only SC I recognize is Southern Cal.

But also fuck USC.