.Breaking South Carolina’s dish possibilitiesPhoto: (Image through Joseph Cress) With the College Volleyball Playoff go after very likely over, what comes next for the Gamecocks? A bowl game someplace, as well as a possibility to accomplish a 10-win season for merely the fifth attend program background. But where could the Gamecocks find yourself, as well as who are actually some sensible enemies?
The ProcedureThe Cheez-It Citrus Dish in Orlando has the very first selection of non-playoff SEC groups, presently Ole Miss due to the rankings. If Ole Miss in some way snuck right into the playoff or dipped below South Carolina between currently as well as Sunday, it will open the door for the Gamecocks to go to Orlando. There is actually likewise an odds the Citrus Bowl commitee can repudiate the positions and also pick South Carolina regardless.From certainly there, the dish pecking order after the Citrus Bowl is actually murky and also undefined.
The alleged “pool of six” bowl game adhere to the Citrus Dish, but it boils down to bowl boards as well as invites instead of a prepared order where one bowl can easily select a crew, adhered to due to the upcoming and more. Those six championship game are actually the ReliaQuest Dish (previously referred to as the Outback Dish) in Tampa Bay, the TaxSlayer Gator Dish in Jacksonville, Nashville’s Transperfect Music Metropolitan area Dish, the SRS Distributors Sin City Bowl, the Tax Obligation Show Texas Dish (Houston) and the Autozone Right Dish in Memphis. Citrus Dish Place: Orlando, FloridaDate: December 31stAffiliations: SEC vs.
Big TenThis is the easiest one to break down of the group. It has regularly been actually the top SEC and Big Ten crews outside the New Years 6 bowls (what is actually currently the playoff). Along with 4 Large Ten staffs anticipated to get inside the playoff, Illinois is actually the conference’s only other ranked staff.
If the Gamecocks are actually slotted for Orlando it would certainly very likely protest the Illini, indicating a match-up against former wide recievers train Justin Stepp. South Carolina has played within this championship game two times, beating Nebraska to finish the 2011 period as well as Wisconsin adhering to 2013. ReliaQuest BowlLocation: Tampa Florida, FloridaDate: December 31stAffiliations: SEC vs.
Big TenProbably the minimum pleasing location for Gamecock followers just because of the regularity they have actually been there. South Carolina has actually played in what was actually formely called the Country Dish 5 opportunities, all because 2000. This is actually more than some other SEC group.
The Gamecocks are actually 4-1 in Tampa, however this dish would verge on virtually being actually routine for huge parts of the fanbase. As for a feasible rival, the Big 10 possesses a various framework to the SEC, where it performs possess a reputable order. This bowl game is to begin with in line to choose a Large 10 crew after the Citrus Dish.
Purely based on win total amounts Iowa would be following with its 8-4 report. Yet Michigan, Minnesota and also Rutgers are actually all close responsible for with 7 success. Michigan in particular can be appealing for a bowl committee along with its sizable graduates system as well as revived enthusiast electricity observing a rivalry gain Ohio Condition.
Gator BowlLocation: Jacksonville, FloridaDate: January 2ndAffiliations: SEC vs. ACCMaybe the Gamecocks definitely would not go to the exact same bowl game on 2 vacations, yet South Carolina fans possessed a solid yield in 2022 and Jacksonville is just four hours coming from Columbia. If South Carolina went back to Jacksonville, Syracuse, Fight It Out as well as Louisville would certainly be actually the frontrunners as achievable challengers coming from the ACC.
The ACC carries out not possess a real hierarchy, implying fan enthusiasm and possibilities to market tv adds would think about. This was a large part of exactly how the Gator Dish wound up making use of Notre Dame’s pseudo-ACC status to land the Battling Irish after their 8-4 period in 2022. Popular Music Metropolitan Area BowlLocation: Nashville, TennesseeDate: December 30thAffiliations: SEC vs.
Big TenThis is actually an incredibly similar situation to the ReliaQuest Dish, where it generally features an SEC staff as well as a Significant 10 staff both someplace in the 7-9 gain assortment. It is next in the Huge Ten hierarchy, indicating the bowl committee will have the rest of the conference outside the Citrus and ReliaQuest dish individuals to select from. It seems like the location for whoever performs not come to Tampa bay between Iowa and also Michigan, yet again Minnesota as well as Rutgers lurk.
South Carolina has never ever played in the Music Area Bowl, however its own lengthy past history of possessing huge sets of followers take a trip to Nashville for Vanderbilt games will certainly create it an eye-popping applicant. Sin City BowlLocation: Sin City, NevadaDate: December 27thAffiliations: SEC vs. Pac-12 ** Participants of the Pac-12 just before 2024 are still looked at eligible for this bowl invitation.This is actually where it starts to turn into the range of being actually achievable, however not likely.
Everything outside of the three Fla bowls or even Nashville believes that a longshot. The Pac-12 is actually dead, but dynamic in this sense. Teams who played in the league last year are actually still entitled for this championship game due to contracts agreed on before conference re-alignment.
Colorado as an example is actually bowl eligible, as well as therefore qualified to play in any activity with a Significant 12 or even Pac-12 dead heat. Arizona Condition has its own sights set on the playoff if it succeeds the Big 12 title video game, however this might be a fallback option for the Sun Devils if they lose this weekend break. Washington as well as Southern Cal, both 6-6 in their new Big Ten homes, will additionally be actually qualified listed below.
It is actually tough to lock in exactly just how this bowl committee will definitely select staffs, requiring an SEC one that will create a cross-country travel in major numbers and also must partner 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 possibly the least most likely place for the Gamecocks, however is actually still theoretically possible. Texas A&M, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri as well as LSU are all dish eligible as well as in much closer distance to Houston than the Gamecocks, making a much larger opportunity at offering tickets. South Carolina has actually never ever played within this bowl game, and also geographics is actually a significant main reason.
If it carried out somhow property below, among the 3 Texas universities along with an 8-4 report– Baylor, TCU and Texas Technician– would certainly be actually the likliest enemies. Freedom BowlLocation: Memphis, TennesseeDate: December 27thAffiliations: SEC vs. Big 12Again, this believes close to impossible.
The Freedom Dish is actually actually in the “swimming pool of six” but has actually generally ended up with a team in close proximity to Memphis after various other bowls were loaded. Arkansas, Mississippi Condition and Missouri have actually been the final 3 SEC groups to participate in listed below, as well as none of those staffs succeeded nine activities, either.Kansas Condition or some of the Texas colleges would bring in one of the most feeling to load the Big 12 side of this video game.