.Breaking South Carolina’s dish possibilitiesPhoto: (Photograph by Joseph Cress) With the College Volleyball Playoff chase after likely over, what comes next for the Gamecocks? A bowl game someplace, as well as an option to finish off a 10-win time for just the 5th attend plan past history. However where could the Gamecocks wind up, and who are some realistic rivals?
The ProcedureThe Cheez-It Citrus Dish in Orlando possesses the 1st choice of non-playoff SEC crews, currently Ole Miss due to the rankings. If Ole Miss somehow snuck in to the playoff or dipped listed below South Carolina between now and also Sunday, it would certainly open the door for the Gamecocks to go to Orlando. There is actually likewise an opportunity the Citrus Dish commitee could possibly reject the positions and pick South Carolina regardless.From there certainly, the bowl pecking order after the Citrus Bowl is dirty as well as undefined.
The supposed “pool of 6” bowl game follow the Citrus Dish, however it boils down to bowl committees and invites as opposed to a set order where one bowl can easily decide on a team, followed due to the following and more. Those 6 bowl games are actually the ReliaQuest Dish (formerly referred to as the Country Dish) in Tampa Bay, the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Nashville’s Transperfect Songs Metropolitan area Bowl, the SRS Distributors Las Vegas Bowl, the Tax Obligation Act Texas Bowl (Houston) and also the Autozone Right Bowl in Memphis. Citrus Dish Area: Orlando, FloridaDate: December 31stAffiliations: SEC vs.
Big TenThis is actually the simplest one to break down of the team. It has always been actually the top SEC as well as Big Ten groups outside the New Years 6 bowls (what is now the playoff). With 4 Major 10 teams anticipated to get in the playoff, Illinois is the event’s merely various other rated team.
If the Gamecocks are slotted for Orlando it would certainly highly likely be against the Illini, meaning a match against past vast recievers instructor Justin Stepp. South Carolina has played in this bowl game two times, pounding Nebraska to finish the 2011 period as well as Wisconsin observing 2013. ReliaQuest BowlLocation: Tampa Florida, FloridaDate: December 31stAffiliations: SEC vs.
Big TenProbably the minimum good location for Gamecock supporters even if of the regularity they have been there. South Carolina has played in what was formely called the Rural Bowl 5 times, all because 2000. This is actually greater than some other SEC team.
The Gamecocks are actually 4-1 in Tampa fl, but this dish would certainly verge on virtually being actually routine for large portions of the fanbase. As for a feasible challenger, the Big 10 has a various construct to the SEC, where it performs have an established purchase. This bowl game is initially in line to choose a Huge Ten team after the Citrus Dish.
Solely based on gain total amounts Iowa would certainly be upcoming with its 8-4 file. However Michigan, Minnesota as well as Rutgers are actually all close responsible for along with 7 success. Michigan specifically might be appealing for a dish board along with its own sizable graduates system and also revitalized enthusiast energy observing a competition win over Ohio State.
Gator BowlLocation: Jacksonville, FloridaDate: January 2ndAffiliations: SEC vs. ACCMaybe the Gamecocks would not visit the exact same bowl game on 2 plain journeys, but South Carolina enthusiasts had a tough turnout in 2022 and Jacksonville is only 4 hours coming from Columbia. If South Carolina returned to Jacksonville, Syracuse, Duke and also Louisville would certainly be actually the frontrunners as feasible challengers coming from the ACC.
The ACC performs certainly not possess a real chain of command, indicating follower passion and also options to market television advertisements would certainly think about. This was a big part of just how the Gator Bowl ended up using Notre Dame’s pseudo-ACC standing to land the Dealing with Irish after their 8-4 period in 2022. Music Metropolitan Area BowlLocation: Nashville, TennesseeDate: December 30thAffiliations: SEC vs.
Big TenThis is actually an incredibly identical condition to the ReliaQuest Dish, where it often includes an SEC crew and a Major Ten staff both somewhere in the 7-9 gain variety. It is upcoming in the Huge 10 position, indicating the dish committee will have the remainder of the event outside the Citrus and ReliaQuest dish attendees to pick from. It believes that the location for whoever performs not get to Tampa florida in between Iowa and Michigan, but once more Minnesota as well as Rutgers hide.
South Carolina has never played in the Songs Urban Area Dish, however its own lengthy background of possessing large sets of supporters take a trip to Nashville for Vanderbilt activities would undoubtedly create it an eye-popping candidate. Sin City BowlLocation: Las Vegas, NevadaDate: December 27thAffiliations: SEC vs. Pac-12 ** Participants of the Pac-12 prior to 2024 are still thought about eligible for this dish invitation.This is actually where it starts to drift into the variety of being actually technically possible, yet not likely.
Everything away from the 3 Florida bowls or Nashville thinks that a longshot. The Pac-12 is dead, yet vital in this sense. Groups that played in the league in 2013 are still eligible for this championship game as a result of contracts agreed on before event re-alignment.
Colorado for example is actually bowl eligible, and also consequently entitled to play in any video game with a Large 12 or Pac-12 tie. Arizona Condition has its own views set on the playoff if it wins the Large 12 title activity, but this could be a fallback option for the Sun Devils if they drop this weekend break. Washington and also Southern Cal, both 6-6 in their new Big 10 homes, would certainly likewise be actually entitled here.
It is actually hard to lock in specifically just how this dish committee will pick groups, requiring an SEC one that would create a cross-country excursion in major amounts and must team up with other conferences on the former 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 likely place for the Gamecocks, yet is still theoretically feasible. Texas A&M, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and LSU are all bowl eligible and in far closer distance to Houston than the Gamecocks, developing a considerably greater chance at offering tickets. South Carolina has never ever played in this bowl game, and also geographics is actually a large main reason.
If it did somhow property here, some of the 3 Texas universities with an 8-4 file– Baylor, TCU and also Texas Specialist– would certainly be actually the likliest rivals. Freedom BowlLocation: Memphis, TennesseeDate: December 27thAffiliations: SEC vs. Big 12Again, this believes near difficult.
The Liberty Dish is actually in the “swimming pool of 6” yet has actually often ended up with a group near to Memphis after various other bowls were actually loaded. Arkansas, Mississippi State and also Missouri have been the last three SEC groups to participate in right here, as well as none of those crews won nine activities, either.Kansas Condition or some of the Texas schools would certainly bring in the best feeling to fill up the Large 12 edge of this particular game.