1. South Carolina: where legendary coaches go to retire and young coaches go to get fired.
2. Sure, Clemson has more national championships and Playoff appearances than the Gamecocks, but the good news for South Carolina fans is that they have the exact same number of SEC titles.
3. Steve Spurrier had more success at Duke than at South Carolina. That’s not a joke that’s just a fact.
4. South Carolina football is so hopeless that they saw a division rival fall apart because of a new head coach and thought, “we should hire that guy.”
5. The South Carolina football program has an all-time win percentage of just over 50%, which is about 45% higher than the amount of effort Jadeveon Clowney usually gave them.
6. South Carolina football traditions include: entering to 2001: A Space Odyssey, Sir Big Spur, their beloved mascot Cocky, and losing at least one incredibly embarrassing game every year.
7. Mack Brown retired from football, spent 5 years doing nothing but playing golf and talking on ESPN, returned to a lower-tier ACC team with a freshman quarterback … and still beat South Carolina.
8. Alabama thinks it’s unique for getting blown out by Clemson, but South Carolina has been doing that for decades.
9. South Carolina: first to secede, sixth in the SEC.
10. If you’ve ever been to Atlanta, New Orleans or Miami, you’ve been closer to a New Year’s 6 bowl game than South Carolina ever has.
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