.Malfunctioning South Carolina’s dish possibilitiesPhoto: (Photo by Joseph Cress) With the University Volleyball Playoff chase after likely over, what comes next for the Gamecocks? A championship game somewhere, and an option to accomplish a 10-win period for just the fifth attend program background. However where could the Gamecocks find yourself, and who are some reasonable rivals?
The ProcedureThe Cheez-It Citrus Bowl in Orlando has the 1st selection of non-playoff SEC groups, presently Ole Miss due to the ranks. If Ole Miss in some way snuck in to the playoff or dipped below South Carolina in between now as well as Sunday, it would certainly unlock for the Gamecocks to go to Orlando. There is additionally an odds the Citrus Bowl commitee might repudiate the ranks and also pick South Carolina regardless.From there certainly, the dish position after the Citrus Dish is darkened and also boundless.
The so-called “pool of 6” bowl game observe the Citrus Dish, yet it comes down to bowl boards and invites instead of a specified order where one bowl can easily decide on a staff, adhered to by the following and so on. Those six bowl games are actually the ReliaQuest Dish (in the past referred to as the Rural Bowl) in Tampa Florida, the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Nashville’s Transperfect Music City Dish, the SRS Distributors Sin City Dish, the Income Tax Act Texas Bowl (Houston) and also the Autozone Right Bowl in Memphis. Citrus Bowl Site: Orlando, FloridaDate: December 31stAffiliations: SEC vs.
Big TenThis is the most convenient one to break of the team. It has actually regularly been the best SEC as well as Big Ten crews outside the New Years Six bowls (what is currently the playoff). Along with 4 Major Ten teams expected to enter the playoff, Illinois is actually the association’s only various other rated crew.
If the Gamecocks are actually slotted for Orlando it would likely be against the Illini, implying a match against former large recievers train Justin Stepp. South Carolina has played within this championship game twice, beating Nebraska to end the 2011 time and also Wisconsin following 2013. ReliaQuest BowlLocation: Tampa Fl, FloridaDate: December 31stAffiliations: SEC vs.
Big TenProbably the least preferable destination for Gamecock supporters just because of the frequency they have actually been there. South Carolina has actually played in what was actually formely known as the Outback Bowl 5 times, all because 2000. This is more than any other SEC group.
The Gamecocks are actually 4-1 in Tampa florida, yet this bowl would certainly border on just about being routine for large parts of the fanbase. When it comes to an achievable rival, the Big Ten has a various structure to the SEC, where it carries out have a recognized purchase. This bowl game is initially level to select a Significant Ten group after the Citrus Dish.
Purely based on gain overalls Iowa will be next along with its 8-4 report. But Michigan, Minnesota and also Rutgers are all close behind along with 7 wins. Michigan in particular can be attractive for a bowl committee along with its own big graduates network and also renewed enthusiast electricity following a rivalry win over Ohio Condition.
Gator BowlLocation: Jacksonville, FloridaDate: January 2ndAffiliations: SEC vs. ACCMaybe the Gamecocks wouldn’t go to the very same bowl game on pair of plain vacations, however South Carolina fans possessed a powerful turnout in 2022 and also Jacksonville is merely 4 hours from Columbia. If South Carolina went back to Jacksonville, Syracuse, Fight It Out and also Louisville will be the frontrunners as achievable opponents coming from the ACC.
The ACC does not possess a correct hierarchy, implying fan rate of interest as well as chances to market tv advertisements would certainly think about. This was actually a large portion of exactly how the Gator Bowl found yourself using Notre Dame’s pseudo-ACC status to land the Combating Irish after their 8-4 period in 2022. Songs Metropolitan Area BowlLocation: Nashville, TennesseeDate: December 30thAffiliations: SEC vs.
Big TenThis is a quite similar circumstance to the ReliaQuest Dish, where it usually includes an SEC crew and a Big Ten staff both somewhere in the 7-9 succeed array. It is upcoming in the Significant Ten chain of command, indicating the bowl committee would certainly have the rest of the event outside the Citrus as well as ReliaQuest dish attendees to decide on. It thinks that the location for whoever does not reach Tampa in between Iowa and also Michigan, but once again Minnesota as well as Rutgers hide.
South Carolina has never ever played in the Popular music City Dish, but its own long past history of possessing sizable contingents of enthusiasts take a trip to Nashville for Vanderbilt video games will definitely make it an eye-popping applicant. Sin City BowlLocation: Las Vegas, NevadaDate: December 27thAffiliations: SEC vs. Pac-12 ** Participants of the Pac-12 prior to 2024 are still taken into consideration eligible for this bowl invitation.This is actually where it starts to turn in to the stable of being actually actually achievable, yet unexpected.
Anything beyond the 3 Fla bowls or even Nashville believes that a longshot. The Pac-12 is dead, yet viable in this particular sense. Crews who played in the game in 2013 are actually still eligible for this bowl game as a result of arrangements settled on before conference re-alignment.
Colorado for instance is bowl eligible, and also as a result qualified to play in any activity along with a Huge 12 or even Pac-12 tie. Arizona Condition has its attractions bented on the playoff if it wins the Significant 12 title video game, however this may be a fallback alternative for the Sunlight Devils if they drop this weekend break. Washington as well as Southern Cal, both 6-6 in their new Big 10 homes, would certainly likewise be eligible here.
It is challenging to pin down exactly how this bowl board will certainly select groups, needing an SEC one that would create a cross-country journey in huge varieties and also needing to team up with various other conferences on the previous Pac-12 groups. Still, it goes to minimum for South Carolina. Texas BowlLocation: Houston, TexasDate: December 31stAffiliations: SEC vs.
Big 12This is actually possibly the least likely place for the Gamecocks, however is actually still theoretically possible. Texas A&M, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and also LSU are all bowl eligible as well as in far closer closeness to Houston than the Gamecocks, making a much bigger chance at marketing tickets. South Carolina has actually never played in this particular championship game, and also geographics is a big explanation.
If it performed somhow property below, among the three Texas universities with an 8-4 report– Baylor, TCU and Texas Tech– would be the likliest opponents. Right BowlLocation: Memphis, TennesseeDate: December 27thAffiliations: SEC vs. Big 12Again, this experiences near inconceivable.
The Freedom Bowl is actually in the “swimming pool of 6” yet has generally wound up along with a staff in close proximity to Memphis after various other bowls were actually filled up. Arkansas, Mississippi Condition as well as Missouri have actually been the last 3 SEC teams to play listed here, and also none of those staffs succeeded nine games, either.Kansas State or even among the Texas institutions would bring in one of the most sense to fill the Big 12 side of this game.