.Malfunctioning South Carolina’s bowl possibilitiesPhoto: (Photo through Joseph Cress) Along With the College Volleyball Playoff chase after likely over, what comes next for the Gamecocks? A championship game somewhere, and also an option to accomplish a 10-win season for merely the 5th time in system past history. But where could the Gamecocks end up, as well as that are some reasonable rivals?
The ProcedureThe Cheez-It Citrus Bowl in Orlando possesses the 1st choice of non-playoff SEC groups, currently Ole Miss due to the positions. If Ole Miss somehow snuck right into the playoff or even dipped listed below South Carolina in between right now and also Sunday, it will unlock for the Gamecocks to visit Orlando. There is likewise a possibility the Citrus Dish commitee could repudiate the ranks and also select South Carolina regardless.From certainly there, the bowl position after the Citrus Dish is darkened as well as undefined.
The so-called “pool of six” bowl game follow the Citrus Bowl, yet it boils down to bowl committees and invites as opposed to a specified order where one bowl may select a staff, observed due to the upcoming and so forth. Those 6 bowl games are the ReliaQuest Bowl (previously referred to as the Country Bowl) in Tampa Fl, the TaxSlayer Gator Dish in Jacksonville, Nashville’s Transperfect Songs Area Dish, the SRS Distributors Sin City Bowl, the Tax Act Texas Bowl (Houston) and the Autozone Freedom Bowl in Memphis. Citrus Bowl Site: Orlando, FloridaDate: December 31stAffiliations: SEC vs.
Big TenThis is actually the easiest one to break down of the team. It has always been the leading SEC as well as Big 10 groups outside the New Years Six bowls (what is actually right now the playoff). Along with four Big Ten teams anticipated to get inside the playoff, Illinois is the conference’s just other placed crew.
If the Gamecocks are slotted for Orlando it would certainly very likely be against the Illini, indicating a match-up versus previous large recievers trainer Justin Stepp. South Carolina has actually played in this particular championship game two times, pounding Nebraska to finish the 2011 period and also Wisconsin following 2013. ReliaQuest BowlLocation: Tampa, FloridaDate: December 31stAffiliations: SEC vs.
Big TenProbably the least desirable place for Gamecock enthusiasts just because of the frequency they have actually existed. South Carolina has played in what was actually formely referred to as the Rural Dish 5 opportunities, all due to the fact that 2000. This is more than any other SEC staff.
The Gamecocks are actually 4-1 in Tampa, yet this dish would approach just about being regimen for sizable portions of the fanbase. As for a possible enemy, the Big 10 has a different design to the SEC, where it carries out have a recognized purchase. This championship game is actually initially in line to pick a Significant 10 staff after the Citrus Dish.
Strictly based on win overalls Iowa will be actually next with its own 8-4 file. But Michigan, Minnesota and also Rutgers are all close behind with 7 triumphes. Michigan especially might be attractive for a dish committee along with its big graduates system as well as revived enthusiast electricity following a competition win over Ohio Condition.
Gator BowlLocation: Jacksonville, FloridaDate: January 2ndAffiliations: SEC vs. ACCMaybe the Gamecocks would not visit the same championship game on pair of straight journeys, yet South Carolina fans possessed a powerful turnover in 2022 and Jacksonville is simply 4 hrs from Columbia. If South Carolina went back to Jacksonville, Syracuse, Fight It Out and also Louisville would certainly be actually the frontrunners as achievable enemies coming from the ACC.
The ACC does not possess an accurate position, indicating supporter rate of interest as well as possibilities to offer television advertisements will factor in. This was a big portion of exactly how the Gator Bowl wound up using Notre Dame’s pseudo-ACC standing to land the Fighting Irish after their 8-4 time in 2022. Popular Music Urban Area BowlLocation: Nashville, TennesseeDate: December 30thAffiliations: SEC vs.
Big TenThis is a quite identical scenario to the ReliaQuest Dish, where it often includes an SEC staff as well as a Significant Ten team both someplace in the 7-9 gain array. It is actually following in the Significant Ten chain of command, suggesting the bowl committee will have the rest of the conference outside the Citrus and also ReliaQuest dish participants to select from. It believes that the area for whoever carries out not get to Tampa in between Iowa and Michigan, but once again Minnesota and also Rutgers hide.
South Carolina has never played in the Songs Urban Area Bowl, yet its long history of having big contingents of enthusiasts travel to Nashville for Vanderbilt activities will undoubtedly make it an eye-popping prospect. Sin City BowlLocation: Las Vegas, NevadaDate: December 27thAffiliations: SEC vs. Pac-12 ** Members of the Pac-12 prior to 2024 are actually still taken into consideration eligible for this bowl invitation.This is actually where it starts to divert into the stable of being actually actually feasible, but extremely unlikely.
Just about anything beyond the 3 Fla bowls or Nashville believes that a longshot. The Pac-12 is dead, yet dynamic within this feeling. Crews who played in the organization in 2015 are actually still qualified for this championship game as a result of deals settled on before association re-alignment.
Colorado for example is actually dish eligible, as well as as a result eligible to play in any game with a Significant 12 or Pac-12 dead heat. Arizona State has its own views set on the playoff if it wins the Significant 12 label video game, yet this may be a fallback alternative for the Sunshine Devils if they shed this weekend break. Washington and Southern Cal, both 6-6 in their brand-new Big Ten homes, would likewise be actually qualified listed below.
It is actually challenging to lock in exactly just how this bowl board will definitely decide on crews, requiring an SEC one that would create a cross-country excursion in large varieties and also needing to partner with other associations on the previous Pac-12 staffs. Still, it goes to minimum for South Carolina. Texas BowlLocation: Houston, TexasDate: December 31stAffiliations: SEC vs.
Big 12This is actually perhaps the least most likely location for the Gamecocks, however is still actually possible. Texas A&M, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and also LSU are all dish eligible and in far closer proximity to Houston than the Gamecocks, generating a considerably bigger possibility at offering tickets. South Carolina has actually never played within this bowl game, and also geographics is a major main reason.
If it carried out somhow land here, one of the 3 Texas institutions along with an 8-4 record– Baylor, TCU as well as Texas Tech– would be the likliest opponents. Freedom BowlLocation: Memphis, TennesseeDate: December 27thAffiliations: SEC vs. Big 12Again, this thinks close to difficult.
The Right Bowl is theoretically in the “swimming pool of six” yet has actually usually ended up with a staff in close proximity to Memphis after other bowls were actually packed. Arkansas, Mississippi State as well as Missouri have been actually the final three SEC staffs to play below, and also none of those staffs succeeded nine video games, either.Kansas Condition or even among the Texas universities would certainly create the absolute most feeling to pack the Big 12 edge of this activity.