The Gamecocks have opened the season on the road 25 times in 115 years of football at the intercollegiate level. In those games, the Gamecocks are 7-18 for a .280 winning percentage. The last road opener came in the 2006 season when South Carolina notched a 15-0 victory at Mississippi State. This is only the 3rd season opener on the road since the 1999 loss at NC State; Carolina is 2-0 in those contests with the win over MSU and a win over Vanderbilt in 2004.
South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier is 18-1 in season-opening games in his 19 seasons as a collegiate head coach. The only loss in that stretch was ironically a 27-21 loss to the Carolina Gamecocks in Columbia on Sept. 2, 1989, when he was the coach in his final season at Duke. That Blue Devil squad went on to win the ACC title. The Carolina victory was led by the great Todd Ellis, who is now the play-by-play voice of Gamecock Football. Since that time, Coach Spurrier has won 16 straight season opening games with his squad scoring 40 or more points in 10 of those 16 games. Git R Done...7:00 Today! The SEC Rocks!
South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier is 18-1 in season-opening games in his 19 seasons as a collegiate head coach. The only loss in that stretch was ironically a 27-21 loss to the Carolina Gamecocks in Columbia on Sept. 2, 1989, when he was the coach in his final season at Duke. That Blue Devil squad went on to win the ACC title. The Carolina victory was led by the great Todd Ellis, who is now the play-by-play voice of Gamecock Football. Since that time, Coach Spurrier has won 16 straight season opening games with his squad scoring 40 or more points in 10 of those 16 games. Git R Done...7:00 Today! The SEC Rocks!
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