.Breaking South Carolina’s dish possibilitiesPhoto: (Photo by Joseph Cress) Along With the University Soccer Playoff chase likely over, what follows for the Gamecocks? A bowl game someplace, as well as a chance to accomplish a 10-win season for merely the fifth attend program past. However where could the Gamecocks find yourself, as well as that are actually some practical challengers?
The ProcedureThe Cheez-It Citrus Dish in Orlando possesses the first selection of non-playoff SEC crews, presently Ole Miss by the rankings. If Ole Miss in some way snuck right into the playoff or soaked listed below South Carolina in between currently and Sunday, it would certainly open the door for the Gamecocks to head to Orlando. There is also an odds the Citrus Dish commitee might repudiate the ranks as well as pick South Carolina regardless.From certainly there, the bowl chain of command after the Citrus Dish is actually darkened and undefined.
The so-called “swimming pool of 6” bowl game adhere to the Citrus Bowl, but it comes down to bowl committees and also invitations as opposed to a specified purchase where one dish can pick a group, observed due to the upcoming and so forth. Those 6 championship game are actually the ReliaQuest Bowl (formerly referred to as the Country Dish) in Tampa Fl, the TaxSlayer Gator Dish in Jacksonville, Nashville’s Transperfect Songs City Dish, the SRS Distributors Las Vegas Bowl, the Tax Obligation Act Texas Bowl (Houston) and also the Autozone Liberty Bowl in Memphis. Citrus Bowl Place: Orlando, FloridaDate: December 31stAffiliations: SEC vs.
Big TenThis is the most convenient one to malfunction of the group. It has actually always been the leading SEC and also Big 10 groups outside the New Years 6 bowls (what is actually now the playoff). Along with four Big Ten crews expected to enter the playoff, Illinois is the association’s merely various other rated crew.
If the Gamecocks are actually slotted for Orlando it would likely be against the Illini, meaning a match-up versus former large recievers coach Justin Stepp. South Carolina has played within this championship game two times, pounding Nebraska to end the 2011 season and also Wisconsin adhering to 2013. ReliaQuest BowlLocation: Tampa, FloridaDate: December 31stAffiliations: SEC vs.
Big TenProbably the minimum preferable destination for Gamecock fans even if of the regularity they have actually existed. South Carolina has actually played in what was actually formely called the Rural Dish 5 times, all since 2000. This is actually more than any other SEC team.
The Gamecocks are actually 4-1 in Tampa bay, yet this dish will verge on just about being regular for huge portions of the fanbase. When it comes to a possible challenger, the Big 10 possesses a various framework to the SEC, where it does possess a recognized purchase. This championship game is actually first level to select a Significant Ten team after the Citrus Dish.
Stringently based on win overalls Iowa will be next with its 8-4 report. However Michigan, Minnesota and Rutgers are actually all close behind along with seven victories. Michigan especially could be desirable for a bowl board along with its own big graduates system and revived enthusiast energy complying with a competition gain Ohio State.
Gator BowlLocation: Jacksonville, FloridaDate: January 2ndAffiliations: SEC vs. ACCMaybe the Gamecocks wouldn’t visit the very same championship game on 2 plain vacations, however South Carolina enthusiasts had a sturdy yield in 2022 and Jacksonville is simply 4 hrs from Columbia. If South Carolina got back to Jacksonville, Syracuse, Duke as well as Louisville would be the frontrunners as achievable opponents from the ACC.
The ACC performs not have a real hierarchy, suggesting fan rate of interest and chances to offer tv ads would factor in. This was actually a huge portion of exactly how the Gator Dish ended up making use of Notre Dame’s pseudo-ACC status to land the Fighting Irish after their 8-4 season in 2022. Music Area BowlLocation: Nashville, TennesseeDate: December 30thAffiliations: SEC vs.
Big TenThis is actually a quite comparable situation to the ReliaQuest Dish, where it usually features an SEC staff and a Huge Ten group both somewhere in the 7-9 win variation. It is actually following in the Major Ten position, implying the dish committee would certainly have the remainder of the conference outside the Citrus as well as ReliaQuest dish participants to pick from. It thinks that the place for whoever carries out certainly not reach Tampa fl between Iowa as well as Michigan, however once more Minnesota as well as Rutgers sneak.
South Carolina has never played in the Music Metropolitan Area Bowl, however its own long history of possessing large sets of enthusiasts travel to Nashville for Vanderbilt activities would definitely create it an eye-popping candidate. Sin City BowlLocation: Sin City, NevadaDate: December 27thAffiliations: SEC vs. Pac-12 ** Members of the Pac-12 prior to 2024 are actually still considered eligible for this bowl invitation.This is actually where it starts to divert into the series of being actually feasible, yet unlikely.
Just about anything away from the 3 Fla bowls or even Nashville believes that a longshot. The Pac-12 is dead, but alive in this particular feeling. Teams who played in the league in 2014 are actually still qualified for this bowl game because of arrangements settled on prior to association re-alignment.
Colorado as an example is bowl eligible, as well as as a result qualified to play in any kind of activity with a Big 12 or Pac-12 tie. Arizona State has its sights bented on the playoff if it succeeds the Significant 12 headline game, but this could be a fallback choice for the Sun Devils if they drop this weekend. Washington and also Southern Cal, each 6-6 in their new Big 10 homes, will also be eligible listed below.
It is complicated to lock in precisely how this bowl board will certainly decide on crews, needing to have an SEC one that would make a cross-country vacation in big numbers and also must partner with various other associations on the past Pac-12 crews. Still, it is at minimal for South Carolina. Texas BowlLocation: Houston, TexasDate: December 31stAffiliations: SEC vs.
Big 12This is actually possibly the least most likely destination for the Gamecocks, but is actually still theoretically possible. Texas A&M, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and LSU are all dish eligible and also in much closer proximity to Houston than the Gamecocks, generating a much larger chance at selling tickets. South Carolina has actually certainly never played in this championship game, and also geography is actually a big factor.
If it carried out somhow land listed below, some of the three Texas universities with an 8-4 record– Baylor, TCU and also Texas Tech– would certainly be actually the likliest enemies. Right BowlLocation: Memphis, TennesseeDate: December 27thAffiliations: SEC vs. Big 12Again, this believes near to impossible.
The Liberty Dish is theoretically in the “pool of 6” however has often wound up with a crew in close proximity to Memphis after various other bowls were filled up. Arkansas, Mississippi State and also Missouri have been actually the final three SEC crews to participate in below, and none of those teams gained nine activities, either.Kansas Condition or some of the Texas colleges will bring in one of the most sense to fill up the Huge 12 side of this video game.