The South Carolina Gamecocks (3-3, 1-3 SEC) begin the second half of the 2024 regular season with the back end of a two-game road swing as they travel to Norman, Okla. for the first time in school history to face the Oklahoma Sooners (4-2, 1-2 SEC) in an SEC showdown on Saturday, Oct. 19. Game time is set for 12:45 ET (11:45 am CT) at Gaylord Family – Oklahoma Memorial Stadium (80,126).
OVER THE AIRWAVES: This week’s contest will be televised on SEC Network. Tom Hart will handle the play-by-play with Cole Cubelic providing the color commentary. Alyssa Lang will patrol the sidelines. Compass Media has a national radio audience as well with Gregg Daniels serving as the play-by-play voice and Chad Brown adding the analysis. The Gamecock Sports Radio Network features a pair of Gamecock Great quarterbacks in play-by-play voice Todd Ellis (33rd season) and analyst Tommy Suggs (52nd season). Chet Tucker returns for his second year as the sideline reporter.
REACHING THE HALFWAY POINT: The South Carolina Gamecocks have navigated the first half of the 2024 season to a 3-3 record overall and a 1-3 mark in SEC play. All three of Carolina’s losses have come to ranked opponents with two of setbacks decided on the game’s final play. They opened the campaign with a hard-fought 23-19 win over Old Dominion, then dominated Kentucky in the SEC opener, winning by a 31-6 count in Lexington, the largest road win in the Shane Beamer Era at South Carolina. The Gamecocks were unable to hold onto a 17-0 first half lead in a heartbreaking 36-33 setback to No. 16/17 LSU, then bounced back with a convincing 50-7 rout of Akron to improve to 3-1. The Gamecocks have dropped their last two contests to highly-ranked opponents, coming up on the short end of a 27-3 decision to No. 12/11 Ole Miss in Columbia, then suffering another gut wretching defeat in a 27-25 loss at No. 7/7 Alabama last Saturday afternoon in Tuscaloosa.
A LITTLE HISTORY: 2024 marks year four of the Shane Beamer Era and the 131st season of intercollegiate football at the University of South Carolina, dating back to 1892. It is the 118th-consecutive year in which South Carolina has competed on the gridiron. The University did not field a team in either 1893 or 1906. Carolina owns an all-time record of 637-616-44, a .508 winning percentage. Since the start of the 21st century, the Gamecocks are 171-134, a .561 winning clip. In four seasons under Coach Beamer, the Gamecocks are 23-21, a .523 winning…
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