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***2021 OFFICIAL GAME-DAY THREAD GAME #11: SOUTH CAROLINA VS AUBURN***

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  SOUTH CAROLINA [SIZE= 20px]VS[/SIZE] AUBURN 
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Gamecock Fanatics Official Game Thread​



GAME DATE AND TIME: Saturday, Nov. 20th 7:00 P.M.

LOCATION: Williams-Brice Stadium, Columbia, S.C.

VIDEO BROADCAST: 

AUDIO BROADCAST: 107.5 The Game

LIVE STATS: Statbroadcast

Columbia, S.C.  - The South Carolina Gamecocks Football team returns home to friendly confines of Williams-Brice Stadium, to host the SEC-West Auburn Tigers tonight at 7:00 p.m. (EST). The game will be televised on ESPN.

The Gamecocks (5-5, 2-5) are still in the hunt for a bowl-qualifying sixth win on the season, after falling to the Missouri Tigers last week on the road 31-28. The Tigers (4-5, 1-4) meanwhile, are looking to break a two-game losing streak after losing to Mississippi State 43-34 at home last week.

ESPN has the national television broadcast with Mark Jones and Robert Griffin III in the booth and Quint Kessenich on the sidelines. Todd Ellis and Tommy Suggs handle the call for the Gamecock Radio Network with Jamar Nesbit on the sidelines.

CAROLINA VS. AUBURN: This is the 14th all-time meeting between South Carolina and Auburn and the second-straight year in which the two squads have met on the gridiron. The Tigers hold a 10-2-1 advantage in the all-time series, including a 3-1 record when the games have been played in Columbia and a 4-0 mark when the teams have met in Auburn. The teams have also played at a neutral site on five occasions, with Auburn holding a 3-1-1 advantage in those contests, including the 2010 SEC Championship game. The teams met in four-consecutive years from 1930-33, then did not meet again until 1996. The teams have played nine times as SEC opponents, with Auburn winning the first eight of those contests.
 
THE LAST TIME THEY MET: The Gamecocks forced three Bo Nix interceptions, including the first two of Jaycee Horn's career, as Carolina upset the No. 15/14 Auburn Tigers, 30-22, in Columbia on Oct. 17, 2020. Auburn dominated the team statistics, rolling up 481 on 83 plays compared to just 297 yards on 67 plays for the Gamecocks, but the three picks (which all led to touchdowns) along with solid red zone defense, helped Carolina rally from an early 9-0 deficit. Horn was selected as the National Defensive Player of the Week by the Walter Camp Football Foundation for his efforts.
 
IT HAD BEEN AWHILE: When the Gamecocks knocked off Auburn last season, it marked their first win over the Tigers since 1933. The win also snapped an eight-game losing streak in the all-time series with Auburn.
 
SOUNDS FAMILIAR: The Gamecocks defeated Auburn by a 30-22 score in 2020 for its first win over the Tigers since 1933. In 2005, South Carolina topped Florida by the same 30-22 score, which marked the Gamecocks' first win over the Gators since 1939. Those are the only two 30-22 wins in school history.

IT HAD HAPPENED BEFORE: Under sixth-year head coach Billy Laval, the Gamecocks traveled to Birmingham on Dec. 2, 1933 to face national power Auburn in the season finale. Earl Clary was the hero, tackling an Auburn runner in the end zone for a, early 2-0 lead, then racing 56 yards for a second period score to make it 9-0 at the half. The Plainsmen roared back to take a 14-9 lead. Clary scampered for a 29-yard fourth-quarter score that lifted Carolina to a 16-14 win, in one of the Gamecocks' greatest victories and quite a final curtain for the Gaffney Ghost.  (courtesy The First Hundred Years)

 
Thanks Conway hoping for victory and 6th win.

 
Just got a bad feeling about tonight. If we lose tonight 5-7 season, should have beaten Missouri but that's what I expected anyhow and still got to play them two. Hoping for the best but expecting the worst. Just that bad on offense, worst I ever seen here. 

 
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Really, we let both the Kentucky game and the Missouri game get away. But that is what happens when your team is in disarray and trying to rebuild back up: you have some games that you had a chance to win, but let get away from you. The important thing is the team develops and improves from week to week, and is a much better team at the end of the season than what it was at the beginning. I don't know that we've seen enough thus far to make any determinations there - last week's game wasn't a great sample point. We have two more weeks to find out some answers heading into 2022.....

 
Gamecocks vs Auburn Talent wise Auburn has the edge but not enough to have a easy go you would think. So we will wait in see just wish offense could hold up and the defense has to handle Tank and QB  T.J. Finley, kick our butts when he played at LSU. Now Clemson different animal just as talent as A&M and right their with Georgia. We just cannot match up no more then we could against those Dawgs and A&M. So we better do it tonight if we want a 6-6 season if not 5-7.

 
Judging by the players' reactions, this just might the psychological boost they need to get them up for tonight's game.

Just a seemingly little thing that gives them the edge mentally.

 
WOW.....

Auburn jumps out with two touchdowns unanswered in the first quarter, and I was thinking, "here we go again.....". But the Gamecocks respond with two touchdowns of their own in the 2nd Qtr., and a third in the 3rd Qtr. - all three off of Jason Brown's passing arm. With the tenuous 21-17 lead deep into the 4th Quarter, the Gamecocks defense held Auburn scoreless in the final stanza, and while the Gamecock's own offense sputtered through the 4th Quarter, on their last possession punt with 2:11 left on the clock, the Kai Kroeger-punted ball miraculously hits a Tiger down the field, and R.J. Roderick pounces on it for the live ball recovery.

After the official review confirms the ball was muffed and recovered by South Carolina - and Auburn already spending their timeouts away during the previous Gamecocks possession they just punted away - Brown was able to engage the Victory Formation, and kneel the rest of the time off the clock, and secure the victory for South Carolina! They win 21-17!!

And in so doing, the Gamecocks improve to 6-5, 3-5 on the season, and secure bowl eligibility for the first time since the 2018 season. They also defeat the Auburn Tigers for the 2nd season in a row, and establish something unprecedented for the Gamecock football program: an active winning streak over the Auburn Tigers.

 
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