Look, I know they’re “just” South Carolina. But dammit, there was something special about that early season dumbassery. That noon kickoff in 95° heat, a crowd that's half red, half garnet, and all hungover. The game where we either win by 40 or forget how to play football for three quarters.

They were the perfect chaos gremlin. You never knew what you were gonna get. One year it’s “Georgia beats South Carolina by a million,” the next it’s “South Carolina and a sentient chicken kicker upset #3 Georgia in overtime.”

And now? No more annual game. No more Beamer weirdness. No more Sandstorm echoing across Williams-Brice like it’s a ritual summoning spell for 8-4 seasons.

We gave up THAT... just to play, what, Oklahoma every decade and Rutgers in November?

I’m not mad, I’m just... nostalgic. And maybe a little scared that not having to play South Carolina might somehow make us worse.

Bring back the dumb rivalry. Bring back the early heartbreak scare. Bring back the Gamecocks.

TL;DR: I miss the annual dumbassery of playing South Carolina. Real ones know.

Pretty self explanatory, they have a super monopoly on the sport having most of the games and the entirety of CFP. They’ve started to outsource games to TNT. But still controlled by ESPN. It basically forces you to have cable just to watch. I think they’ve also gotten stale as they don’t have competition to deal with for these games. I believe we need to see a rotating schedule for the CFP. I don’t mind the lesser games being thrown on TNT, as they should. But ABC/ESPN needs to not be the only ones producing it. We need to see a rotating cast from NBC, CBS, Fox, The CW. I think that would help with broadcasts and their quality.

For those who don't know (and if you're not from the Palmetto State, I can't blame ya), The Clemson and Carolina rivalry predates the sport of football itself. Clemson was founded as a land-grant agricultural and mechanical military college to serve the needs of South Carolina’s rural population, as opposed to the University of South Carolina, which was seen as elitist and out of touch with the common people. This rivalry quickly spread to football, and the rest is history.

According to Jay McCormick, in 1902, during the week leading up to the game, South Carolina fans began preparing by parading around a poster of "a tiger with a gamecock standing on top of it, holding the tiger's tail as if he was steering the tiger by the tail. Naturally, the Clemson guys didn't take too kindly to that, and on Wednesday and again on Thursday, there were sporadic fistfights involving brass knuckles and other objects and so forth, some of which resulted, according to the newspapers, in blood being spilled and persons having to seek medical assistance."

Carolina went on to upset Heisman's tigers 12-6, and proudly carried the new gamecock poster around the capitol during the victory parade.

As a result, 200-300 Clemson cadets marched on USC with rifles and bayonets, aiming to retrieve the sign. In response, forty Carolina students, including future USC president J. Rion McKissick, armed themselves with knives and pistols to defend the campus and sign.

Police were able to defuse the situation, with no shots being fired, but the incident did result in the rivalry being suspended for seven years out of fear of further violence. This event solidified the adoption of the Gamecock as South Carolina's mascot, which continues to this day.

Carolina and Clemson would face every year from 1909 to 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic put an end to what was, at the time, the second longest rivalry in college football.

I find it crazy (but not surprising in the slightest) how intense this rivalry was (and still is). Hopefully some Gamecock fans will correct me if I left any important details out.

Does your rivalry have any insane history or lore similar? Let me know if so, we can't be the only ones!

He was a helluva ball player and I just thought he deserved to be mentioned. Leaves behind three children.

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I was reading this article and saw that the agreement with Michigan State allegedly included live call-outs during games. Does anybody remember this or have any evidence of this happening?

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Gilmore recently transferred in from Kentucky.

Rhule: “Nothing criminal or anything like that. Just won’t be with us anymore.”

This was immediately followed by the PA announcer noting that Rodriguez has a state trooper accompanying him, and jokes that we'll "shoot you in the kneecap" if a fan makes a bad play call.

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Albuquerque Isotopes, Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp, and Omaha Storm Chasers to name a few. For all of us with generic animal mascots, what would be an alternative?

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