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4 Schedule/Results

5 Gameday Poster: USC vs. Clemson

6 Opponent Preview: Clemson

8 Opponent Roster: Clemson

12 Senior Profile: Travian Robertson

13 State of Disunion Offers Details of Bitter Rivalry

16 GamecockCentral.com’s Recruit to Watch: Jody Fuller

17 Win Over Clemson Would Put Gamecocks At All-Time High

18 USC Roster, Coaches, Depth

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expected that USC could again be in Atlanta for another crack at another first — an SEC title.

Barring a miracle akin to parting the Red Sea (a simply awful Kentucky team beating red-hot Georgia), the Gamecocks have been denied a repeat SEC East championship. (The Side Line went to press before the game.) As Spurrier said, the Bull-dogs had to win seven straight SEC games after losing 45-42 to USC and hope for some USC losses in order to win the East. If they could do it, congratulations.

The Bulldogs could, sucking some of the joy out of USC’s first 5-0 record against the SEC East and its first six-conference-win season since joining the SEC. And although it stung to know that there would be no chance this year to get back to Atlanta, it put the Gamecocks to a familiar

position.With no SEC championship

game for USC on Dec. 3, it means the regular-season finale, on Saturday, is USC’s championship game. As it has every year for more than 100 years, USC’s sea-son will be judged on the result of that one game.

Lose to Clemson, and the season will be thought of as a failure despite the high number of overall wins. Win, and it’s a success, yet another milestone in a season full of them.

The Gamecocks have not beaten the archrival Tigers in three straight years since 1968-70, years that also stand as the last time they won back-to-back games over Clemson. USC stands on the cusp of that achievement on Saturday, when the hated or-ange brethren from the Upstate invade Williams-Brice Stadium

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uSc’s Antonio Allen intercepts the ball during the 2010 rivalry game. photo by paul collins.

This is how it should be.

For the great majority of South Carolina’s 20 years

as members of the Southeastern Conference, the SEC Champion-ship Game has been barely more than a pipe dream. There have been a couple of close chances, but never enough consistent win-

ning to think that the Game-cocks would be going to Atlanta on a regular basis.

That changed in 2010, when Steve Spurrier led his troops to the game for the first and only time. Returning many of the pri-mary playmakers from that team in 2011, it was hoped for and

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looking for a few cherries on what’s been a delicious treat of a year.

The Tigers will play for the ACC championship next week and are looking to nab their first BCS bowl appearance. All that’s in the way is USC, playing for an-other win, another goal and the all-important bragging rights.

It has been more than 1,000 days since Clemson last beat USC in football. The Gamecocks want to keep adding to that tally.

“It’s kind of fun to talk about it, although maybe I wish we didn’t have to,” laughed Tommy Suggs, who quarterbacked those three USC teams from 1968-70 and never knew the sting of losing USC’s biggest game. “It is, to a degree, kind of amazing that over the course of the years, we haven’t been able to put three together on them [again]. Just been one of those crazy things in sports, I guess.”

“It’s nice to be able to remi-nisce and be able to think about some accomplishments early in life,” he says. “We’re awful proud of it.”

Suggs, the current color man for the Gamecocks’ radio team, remains a legend for being the last quarterback to go undefeated against Clemson, although it was when freshmen were ineligible to play varsity ball. Still, Suggs took his freshman football team to Clemson in 1967 and won then as well (freshman team records are not reflected in a varsity pro-gram’s overall record), technical-ly going a sterling 4-0 against the Tigers and winning three times at Clemson’s Memorial Stadium (or the “borrowed” nickname of

Death Valley).Aside from that period of

the rivalry, it’s mostly been all Clemson all the time. The Game-cocks won the first installment of the rivalry in 1896, then lost the next four games. The Tigers built a commanding 41-27 series lead through the 1974 season, a hefty but not impossible deficit to overcome.

It seemed the Gamecocks were on the upswing in 1975, when another fabled USC signal-caller, Jeff Grantz, led a 56-20 rout of Clemson. Still the most points the Gamecocks have ever put up on the Tigers, it was a grand day for USC but the begin-ning of the end.

Coaches and players on that Clemson team said that it would never happen again. From then through 2009, USC never won more than one game in a stretch against Clemson, and the Tigers stretched the rivalry lead so far that it might never be reversed (69-35-4).

Steve Spurrier is the coach who finally led the Gamecocks to nab two consecutive wins again, upsetting a high-flying Tiger team that was about to play for the ACC title the next week in 2009. In 2010, a more talented Gamecock squad went to the Valley and thoroughly beat the Tigers 29-7, giving USC the long awaited twice-as-nice slogan it had been aching to use for 40 years.

As in 2009, the Tigers are coming to Columbia with an exciting offense and a berth in the league title game next week. USC is coming into the game with a solid record but no other

game until late December or early January.

Clemson might have the edge in talent, but the Gamecocks have the home field and the knowledge that they have won two straight over the Tigers, something no other Gamecock team has done in four decades. “Three!” has been the rallying cry since the preseason, even as bigger goals were planned.

Those goals bit the dust when USC lost two SEC games. This one is still very much alive.

Suggs said he wouldn’t be giving any motivational speeches to this year’s Gamecocks about winning three straight, because none of them were born the last time it was done and plenty of players have been there for two straight. It’s also not Spurrier’s

style, he said, to do that kind of thing, leaving it to the team’s up-perclassmen to stress it.

“The juniors have never lost to Clemson,” Suggs said. “They’ll probably be aware of it and maybe play a little bit harder.”

The USC game means noth-ing to Clemson except breaking the two-year string and polishing a double digit-win season. Still, the Tigers will doubtless be ready to play, spurred by the words of one of their finest.

Charlie Whitehurst is the only quarterback in rivalry history to win four games over the other team (due to Suggs’

1967 win being a freshman win, not a varsity win). Clemson’s field general from 2002 to 2005, Whitehurst became as beloved in the Upstate as he was despised in Columbia.

“As for the 4-0 record, I am very proud to be a part of that — not necessarily as some ac-complishment that my name might be tied to, and not because of my learned and thorough distaste for Carolina football, but because I love Clemson,” White-hurst wrote in the foreword to the just-released Classic Clashes of the Carolina-Clemson Football Rivalry: A State of Disunion. “I know the joy that was felt by the entire Clemson Nation the nights after those four victories. I also know those were some bad years to be a Gamecock fan.”

Since Whitehurst completed his career, USC has beaten the Tigers three times and lost twice. It’s a run of success that has hardly ever happened and USC wants those good times to last.

There’s only one way to do it.“They’ve had a remarkable

year based on everything they have been faced with,” Suggs said. “They have just found a way to win, like our baseball team. This is the best coaching year [Spurrier] has ever had. Period.”

It can get better, with one simple word.

“Three.”

saturday is usc’s championship game. As it has every year for more than 100 years, usc’s season will be judged on the result of that one game.

clemson’s Sammy Watkins carries the ball against Georgia

tech on Oct. 29. photo by Zachary hanby.

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The classic 1961 Sigma Nu prank, No Cigar Today, The Catch, The Push-Off, The

Throwback and The Brawl are phrases that every follower of the South Carolina-Clemson football rivalry knows. In a grudge match that spans more than 100 years, those have been just some of the highlights and classic games of one of the country’s longest and most bitter gridiron battles.

But what about what re-ally happened in the hours after

USC’s victory in 1902, when a tense standoff between students from each school nearly erupted into bloodshed? Or what went on in 1946, when the savage killing of a live rooster before the game incited a slugfest that only stopped when the national anthem was played? The stories behind Big Thursday? How play-ers from each team, after battling each other that evening, partied as friends afterward in the late 1980s? How the hours leading

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A state of Disunion offers Behind-the-scenes Details from Bitter rivalry

up to the 2004 game were filled with a sense of bad tidings, that something terrible was about to happen?

These are just some of the details and behind-the-scenes takes from a book just released on the subject. Classic Clashes of the Carolina-Clemson Football Rivalry: A State of Disunion, penned by Travis Haney and Larry Williams and published by The History Press in Charles-ton, is a must-read for anyone who has ever watched, read or heard about any installment of the Gamecocks-Tigers football series. Haney and Williams, who each covered the rivalry during their careers, bring you 20 chap-ters exploring the best stories and games from the annual Palmetto State showdown.

Haney, former USC beat writer for Charleston’s Post & Courier (as well as the Augusta Chronicle and the Anderson Independent-Mail), got involved with the book after The History Press published his first book, Gamecock Glory, which detailed the run of USC’s baseball team to the 2010 national championship. Approached by the publisher to write a book on the football ri-valry, Haney contacted Williams, another former USC and Clem-son beat writer who currently writes for Tigerillustrated.com, Clemson’s outlet on the national Rivals.com network.

“I was in Seneca at a signing, and I stopped back by through Clemson and ate with Larry,” Haney said. “I was kicking some

stuff around and out of no-where, I said, ‘What would you think about writing a Carolina-Clemson book with me? We can co-write it.’ He jumped right in.”

“It took me like, half a second to say ‘yeah,’” Williams said. “It’s just an honor for me to do. Being around the rivalry and on both sides of it, I looked forward to researching it. It was fun.”

Each author knew that they didn’t want to write simple game recaps, figuring those had al-ready been discussed numerous times. They wanted the stories behind some of the most-remem-bered games, the underlying game-winning factors that might not be as widely known.

Williams took the Clem-son side and Haney took the USC side, each doing extensive research on microfilm to learn more about the rivalry’s first games and then contacting players to fill in the history of the games from the 1940s to the present. With forewords written by USC’s Tommy Suggs and Clemson’s Charlie Whitehurst, each a quarterback who never lost to the other team, readers get a sense from the beginning of the disdain that defines the rivalry.

“The one thing that we circled back to over and over again was this kind of underlying tension,” Haney said. “Everybody’s living in the same state, the same cities and towns. It’s a healthy, border-ing on unhealthy, competitive spirit, and it plays out in a lot of these games.”

Haney had seen some of the

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games during his career and read about several others, but he still had plenty to learn. Even Williams, a South Carolina na-tive who had covered the rivalry from both sides, found plenty of new information. It was Wil-liams’ idea to talk to the highway patrolman who was in charge of the other officers during the 2004 game that resulted in a nasty on-field brawl. Haney also spoke at length to current USC defensive

head coach Ellis Johnson, who coached on both sides of the rivalry and is a close friend of current Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney.

The details the two writers uncovered can be astounding even to the most die-hard USC or Clemson fan. While it was difficult for the authors to pick out a handful of games to focus on, Haney and Williams provide masterful recounts and previ-ously unknown details of key games and the overall series that might have even former coaches shaking their heads.

“We surveyed people who have been around the rivalry,” Williams said. “We gave them sort of our list of the first cut we had, and ran it by a lot of people.

It’s not just about the game; it goes so much deeper into it. There are a lot of different parts to each of these chapters.”

During a season in which USC and Clemson are each playing extremely well, the book provides an outstanding resource for fans.

“We were trying to seize on the passion that South Carolina fans were having about the series and the way it’s gone lately,”

Haney said. “We knew that we had that going for us. Clemson kind of pleasantly surprised us [with its winning season].”

The book was just released to stores but it is readily available at stateofdisunionbook.com, where you can order autographed copies from Haney or Williams for your USC or Clemson family or friends. The book came out just in time for Christmas — or more fittingly, just in time for Saturday’s next installment of the rivalry.

“I learned a lot about it, and everybody has said that they’ve learned something new,” said Haney, who also has a sequel to Gamecock Glory in development. “That’s what we really set out to do.”

uSc’s cliff matthews forces a clemson fumble in 2010. photo by paul collins.

“everybody’s living in the same state, the same cities and towns. It’s a healthy, bordering on unhealthy, competitive spirit, and it plays out in a lot of these games.” — Travis haney

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recruIT To wATchB Y C H R I S C L A R K

south Carolina’s coaching staff has a class of committed wide receivers that is ranked third

in the country by Rivals.com.The three-man class con-

sists of a pair of Palmetto State prospects in four-star recruit Shaq Roland and three-star Kwinton Smith. The other member, North Carolinian Jody Fuller, commit-ted to the Gamecocks over the summer.

The 6-foot, 200-pounder from Sun Valley High School drew a rave review from his coach after he made his pledge to play college ball in Columbia.

“As far as Jody’s playing abil-ity, he’s truly been blessed by God himself,” Sun Valley coach Scott Stein told Gamecock Central. “He has very natural speed, very natural power … when he has the ball in his hands, special things

happen. Jody is a good blocker; he does all the things that you would expect out of a kid.”

The four-star prospect drew offers from Arkansas, Clemson, Miami, Michigan, N.C. State,

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Tennessee, North Carolina, Vir-ginia Tech and many others dur-ing the recruiting process. USC’s early efforts to secure him played a role in his commitment, as well as his comfort level with the coaching staff and program.

“They were the first school to offer me,” Fuller told ESPN after announcing. “They just showed me so much love. Coach [Jay] Graham, Steve Spurrier Jr., they just made me feel at home from day one. I’m just so glad they’re the school I’m going to go play with.”

Fuller was on campus recently making his official visit to Colum-bia. He gave that trip high marks.

“It was good, I had fun,” he said. “Me and Kelvin Rainey [a USC tight end commitment] and Tyriq McCord [a four-star defen-sive lineman from Florida] and the safety from New Jersey, Elijah Shumate, all hung out. It was what I expected it to be, but better. “

Fuller says his verbal commit-ment to USC is still intact, but as he told Gamecock Central at the first of the month, he does want to

take some visits to other schools.“Yeah, I’ve been planning on

doing that,” he said. Arkansas, Illinois and Tennes-

see are the three programs Fuller has talked about visiting. Despite the fact that he may take some other visits, he says his pledge is still strong.

“I’m still solid in my commit-ment,” he asserted.

Scott Stein believes USC is not only getting a good player, but a good person.

“All of the college coaches I talked to, I told them all the same thing,” Stein said. “I told them Jody is not going to end up being in a bar fight or a fight in a fra-ternity. That’s not what interests him. What interests him is being the best player in the country and working to be that. If anything gets in the way of that, he just doesn’t do it. At the high-school level, you have all kinds of dif-ferent kids you can hang around with. He doesn’t hang around with bad kids. That’s not some-thing he entertains. He definitely understands what his goal is.”

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win over clemson would put Gamecocks At All-Time high

O P I N I O N B Y J A M E S H A R L E Y

Fueled by a strong returning roster and almost unanimous media predictions of an SEC

East championship, most Game-cock fans embraced extremely high expectations for this year’s team early in the season. Personnel drama quickly ensued as Stephen Garcia and Connor Shaw battled for the starting quarterback spot before Garcia’s highly publicized dismissal, followed by a string of devastating injuries to key players such as Heisman Trophy candidate Marcus Lattimore and defensive stud Antonio Allen.

Despite continuing to win at an exceptional rate, one result of this exhausting drama has been an almost unprecedented plunge in the morale of the Gamecock nation, segments of which just can’t seem to find a way to be happy with hav-ing one of the best teams in college football.

To these folks, winning close

games is as bad as losing; failing to win the SEC East (despite actually sweeping the division for the first time ever) is a complete bust; and having to punt more than once in a game is a sign of coaching ineptitude. The frustrating irony to the more dedicated fans is that as the whiners whine and abandon support based on their over-inflated expectations and sense of entitle-ment, the team itself is proving to be one of the most successful teams in the history of Gamecock football. A win over Clemson and a successful bowl appearance would, in fact, seal this status regardless of the margin of the victories and of which team represents the East in the SEC championship game this year.

So, as it has been for 90 percent of USC’s history, the Palmetto State Championship is once again the most important game of the year, and in this case is possibly the big-

gest rivalry game ever. With both teams ranked and Carolina still within reach of its second-ever 10-win season (or even its first 11-win year), this year’s Clemson game is an absolute dream for USC fans, who should revel in the opportunity not only to achieve an all-time level of excellence but also to ruin the Tigers’ dream season.

Has there ever been a better year to win this game? Even had the Gamecocks beaten the Tigers in 1981 and successfully thwarted Clemson’s only national champi-onship, that Carolina team still would likely have finished the year unranked with a mediocre 7-5 record. It would have been nice just to stop Clemson, but this time there is actually something still left to gain for USC.

In fact, there are many things on the line beyond the possibility of a 10-win (or better) season. This includes a possible third straight victory in the series, a feat that has only been achieved by USC four times in the 108 games of the ri-valry (spanning 115 years), with the last instance occurring more than 40 years ago, in 1970. The quality

of the Gamecocks’ post-season op-portunities could also be upgraded by another win over a ranked team, perhaps sending USC to the traditionally respected Cotton Bowl rather than back to the mundane Outback or Chick-fil-A bowls.

While conference champion-ships are still important in today’s college football landscape, the success of a team’s season does not hinge on conference play alone. Playing in the SEC, widely acknowl-edged as the toughest conference in the country, it’s rare that any team can actually ride the top slot from start to finish in either division.

With so much still at stake in USC’s wider world, the Gamecocks should be motivated to play their best this weekend. And for those who still don’t get it, this team’s best is among our best ever, even if it hasn’t been a golden road filled with shining stars who stand out individually. Anyone remember baseball season? It wasn’t that long ago.

Keep up with Harley’s Side Line blog at free-times.com and his Side Line column in the weekly edition of Free Times.

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GAmecocks rosTer30 Corey Addison SS 6-0 204 RS SO Jacksonville, Fla./Andrew Jackson26 Antonio Allen SPR 6-2 202 SR Ocala, Fla./Trinity Catholic/Fork Union

Military81 Rory Anderson TE 6-5 207 FR Powder Springs, Ga./McEachern47 Landon Ard P/K 5-10 175 FR Rock Hill, S.C./South Pointe3 Akeem Auguste CB 5-10 182 SR Hollywood, Fla./Chaminade-Madonna/Fork

Union Military28 Eric Baker TB 6-0 208 RS JR Jacksonville, Fla./Edward H. White/Fork

Union Military43 Jacob Baker TB 5-9 191 RS JR Ridgeland, S.C./Thomas Heyward Academy4 Jason Barnes WR 6-4 214 RS SR Charlotte, N.C./Independence34 Joshua Blue TB 5-6 178 RS FR Tatum, S.C./Marlboro County32 Reginald Bowens LB 6-2 248 RS JR Holly Springs, N.C./Garner16 Payton Brady TE 6-3 226 RS JR Lincolnton, N.C./East Lincoln/Charleston

Southern/Campbell80 K.J. Brent WR 6-3 180 FR Waxhaw, N.C./Marvin Ridge74 Kaleb Broome OG 6-6 326 JR Aiken, S.C./Aiken/Georgia Military College83 Zach Broome WR 6-2 201 RS FR Richmond Hill, Ga./Richmond Hill/

Armstrong Atantic State3 Damiere Byrd WR 5-9 161 FR Sicklerville, N.J./Timber Creek40 Billy Byrne FB 5-11 235 RS SO Palm Harbor, Fla./East Lake60 Terrence Campbell OG 6-3 296 RS SR Austell, Ga./South Cobb50 A.J. Cann OG 6-3 299 RS FR Bamberg, S.C./Bamberg-Ehrhardt7 Shon Carson RB 5-8 190 FR Scranton, S.C./Lake City1 Ahmad Christian CB 5-10 182 FR Jacksonville, Fla./Trinity Christian12 Andrew Clifford QB 6-2 212 RS SO Tampa, Fla./Wharton7 Jadeveon Clowney DE 6-6 254 FR Rock Hill, S.C./South Pointe48 Matt Coffee FB 5-11 230 SO Mary Esther, Fla./Fort Walton Beach18 Cedrick Cooper LB 6-2 207 FR Lithonia, Ga./Lithonia58 Ryland Culbertson OG 6-4 252 RS FR Laurens, S.C./Laurens Academy87 Justice Cunningham TE 6-3 265 JR Pageland, S.C./Central72 Kenny Davis OG 6-3 318 RS JR Newberry, S.C./Newberry44 Gerald Dixon DE 6-2 271 FR Rock Hill, S.C./South Pointe95 Gerald Dixon, Jr. DT 6-3 311 FR Rock Hill, S.C./Northwestern52 Phillip Dukes DT 6-3 300 FR Manning, S.C./Manning23 Bruce Ellington WR 5-9 197 RS FR Moncks Corner, S.C./Berkeley85 Patrick Fish P 5-11 193 RS FR Shelby, N.C./Burns61 Travis Ford OC 6-3 278 RS SO Fork, S.C./Lake View/Coastal Carolina57 Aldrick Fordham DE 6-3 274 JR Jamestown, S.C./Timberland85 Riley Gallaher WR 6-1 175 FR Apex, N.C./Garner78 Cody Gibson OT 6-6 284 RS FR Tallahassee, Fla./Lincoln43 Qua Gilchrist LB 6-1 244 RS JR Abbeville, S.C./Abbeville/Butler County CC5 Stephon Gilmore CB 6-1 193 JR Rock Hill, S.C./South Pointe9 Sharrod Golightly SS 5-10 185 RS FR Decatur, Ga./Southwest Dekalb93 Deon Green DT 6-3 266 FR Windermere, Fla./Olympia29 Chaun Gresham LB 6-2 265 RS SO Auburn, Ga./Apalachee15 Austin Hails QB 6-2 215 FR Collinsville, Ill./Collinsville96 Jamal Hall DE 6-2 216 RS SO Ladson, S.C./Fort Dorchester/Brevard

College27 Victor Hampton CB 5-10 187 RS FR Darlington, S.C./Darlington59 Coleman Harley LS 6-2 265 FR Aiken, S.C./South Aiken70 Kyle Harris OL 6-3 273 FR Silver Creek, Ga./Pepperell34 Mason Harris DE 6-3 208 FR Fort Oglethorpe, Ga./Ridgeland35 Ben Harvey CB 5-9 176 FR Columbia, Md./Our Lady of Good Counsel24 Josh Hinch TB 5-7 183 RS SR Knoxville, Tenn./Austin East/MidAmerica

Nazarene21 DeVonte Holloman SPR 6-2 232 JR Charlotte, N.C./South Pointe91 Walker Inabinet LS 5-10 199 RS JR Columbia, S.C./Hammond School6 Melvin Ingram DE 6-2 276 RS SR Hamlet, N.C./Richmond County1 Alshon Jeffery WR 6-4 229 JR St. Matthews, S.C./Calhoun County33 Damario Jeffery LB 6-3 237 JR Columbia, S.C./Columbia8 Shamier Jeffery WR 6-1 208 FR St. Matthews, S.C./Calhoun County77 Byron Jerideau DT 6-1 319 RS JR Green Pond, S.C./Colleton County/Fort

Scott C.C.55 T.J. Johnson OC 6-5 316 RS JR Aynor, S.C./Aynor10 Nick Jones WR 5-9 188 RS FR Moore, S.C./Byrnes21 Marcus Lattimore TB 6-0 232 SO Duncan, S.C./Byrnes15 Jimmy Legree CB 5-11 185 RS SO Beaufort, S.C./Beaufort86 Blair Lowery WR 6-0 180 RS JR Irmo, S.C./Dutch Fork25 Kadetrix Marcus CB 6-1 183 FR Stone Mountain, Ga./Stephenson39 Marty Markett CB 5-10 162 RS SR York, S.C./York Comprehensive8 Martay Mattox CB 6-1 192 FR Athens, Ga./Clarke Central76 Mike Matulis OL 6-5 274 FR Boynton Beach, Fla./Park Vista19 Tanner McEvoy QB 6-6 207 FR Hillsdale, N.J./Bergen Catholic92 Byron McKnight DE 6-5 235 RS SR Laurinburg, N.C./Scotland County41 Connor McLaurin FB 6-0 227 RS FR Raleigh, N.C./Garner31 Kenny Miles TB 5-10 193 RS JR Lawrenceville, Ga./Brookwood82 D.L. Moore WR 6-4 203 RS JR Bowling Green, Ky./Bowling Green62 Davis Moore LS 6-0 216 RS SO Buford, Ga./Mill Creek/Emory & Henry

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Steve Spurrier - Head CoachJohn Butler - Special Teams CoordinatorShawn Elliott - Offensive Line/Running Game CoordinatorCraig Fitzgerald - Director of Football Strength & ConditioningJay Graham - Running Backs/Tight EndsJeep Hunter - SafetiesEllis Johnson - Asst. Head Coach/Asst. Coach - Defense/LinebackersBrad Lawing - Defensive LineG.A. Mangus - QuarterbacksJamie Speronis - Director of Football OperationsSteve Spurrier Jr. - ReceiversLorenzo Ward - Defensive Coordinator/CornerbacksRobbie Liles - Director of High School RelationsScott Morgan - Recruiting AssistantPatrick Shine - Administrative Coordinator for Recruiting

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Offense 1 Alshon Jeffery 6-4 229 JR-2L St. Matthews, S.C. 6 DeAngelo Smith 6-0 193 SO-SQ Kingsland, Ga. 11 Lamar Scruggs 6-3 218 SO-1L Jacksonville Beach, Fla. 9 Ace Sanders 5-7 175 SO-1L Bradenton, Fla. 23 Bruce Ellington 5-9 197 FR-RS Moncks Corner, S.C.OR 3 Damiere Byrd 5-9 161 FR-HS Sicklerville, N.J.

10 Nick Jones 5-9 188 FR-RS Moore, S.C. 82 D.L. Moore 6-4 203 JR-2L Bowling Green, Ky.OR 4 Jason Barnes 6-4 214 SR-3L Charlotte, N.C.

73 Rokevious Watkins 6-4 340 SR-1L Fairburn, Ga. 76 Mike Matulis 6-5 274 FR-HS Boynton Beach, Fla.

50 A.J. Cann 6-3 299 FR-RS Bamberg, S.C. 70 Kyle Harris 6-3 273 FR-HS Silver Creek, Ga. 55 T.J. Johnson 6-5 316 JR-2L Aynor, S.C. 61 Travis Ford 6-3 278 SO-SQ Fork, S.C. 60 Terrence Campbell 6-3 295 SR-2L Austell, Ga. 67 Ronald Patrick 6-1 302 SO-SQ Cocoa, Fla.

76 Mike Matulis 6-5 274 FR-HS Boynton Beach, Fla. 78 Cody Gibson 6-6 284 FR-RS Tallahassee, Fla. 87 Justice Cunningham 6-3 265 JR-2L Pageland, S.C. 81 Rory Anderson 6-5 207 FR-HS Powder Springs, Ga. 14 Connor Shaw 6-1 204 SO-1L Flowery Branch, Ga. 17 Dylan Thompson 6-3 213 FR-RS Boiling Springs, S.C. 12 Andrew Clifford 6-2 212 SO-SQ Tampa, Fla.

46 Dalton Wilson 6-0 227 JR-2L Williston, S.C. 41 Connor McLaurin 6-0 227 FR-RS Raleigh, N.C. 22 Brandon Wilds 6-1 223 FR-HS Blythewood, S.C. 31 Kenny Miles 5-10 193 JR-2L Lawrenceville, Ga. 28 Eric Baker 6-0 208 JR-2L Jacksonville, Fla.

Defense 98 Devin Taylor 6-7 260 JR-2L Beaufort, S.C. 90 Chaz Sutton 6-4 250 SO-1L Savannah, Ga. 92 Byron McKnight 6-5 235 SR-3L Laurinburg, N.C.

42 Travian Robertson 6-4 303 SR-3L Laurinburg, N.C. 77 Byron Jerideau 6-1 319 JR-1L Green Pond, S.C. 97 J.T. Surratt 6-2 297 FR-RS Winston-Salem, N.C. 99 Kelcy Quarles 6-4 271 FR-PG Hodges, S.C. 57 Aldrick Fordham 6-3 274 JR-2L Jamestown, S.C.

6 Melvin Ingram 6-2 276 SR-3L Hamlet, N.C. 7 Jadeveon Clowney 6-6 254 FR-HS Rock Hill, S.C.

54 Shaq Wilson 5-11 223 JR-2L Jacksonville, Fla.OR 45 Rodney Paulk 6-0 242 SR-3L Columbia, S.C. 43 Qua Gilchrist 6-1 244 JR-SQ Abbeville, S.C.

32 Reginald Bowens 6-2 248 JR-1L Holly Springs, N.C.OR 24 Quin Smith 6-1 238 JR-2L Lenoir, N.C.

26 Antonio Allen 6-2 202 SR-2L Ocala, Fla. 33 Damario Jeffery 6-3 237 JR-2L Columbia, S.C.

5 Stephon Gilmore 6-1 193 JR-2L Rock Hill, S.C. 27 Victor Hampton 5-10 187 FR-RS Darlington, S.C. 21 DeVonte Holloman 6-2 232 JR-2L Charlotte, N.C. 11 Brison Williams 5-10 206 FR-PG Warner Robins, Ga. 9 Sharrod Golightly 5-10 185 FR-RS Decatur, Ga.

36 D.J. Swearinger 5-10 208 JR-2L Greenwood, S.C. 15 Jimmy Legree 5-11 185 SO-1L Beaufort, S.C.

12 C.C. Whitlock 5-10 178 SR-3L Chester, S.C. 39 Marty Markett 5-10 162 SR-1L York, S.C.

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Specialists 18 Jay Wooten 6-3 204 SR-1L Laurinburg, N.C. 49 Joey Scribner-Howard 6-0 210 SR-SQ Irmo, S.C. 18 Jay Wooten 6-3 204 SR-1L Laurinburg, N.C. 49 Joey Scribner-Howard 6-0 210 SR-SQ Irmo, S.C.

49 Joey Scribner-Howard 6-0 210 SR-SQ Irmo, S.C. 18 Jay Wooten 6-3 204 SR-1L Laurinburg, N.C.

13 Seth Strickland 6-2 194 JR-1L Laurens, S.C.

23 Bruce Ellington 5-9 197 FR-RS Moncks Corner, S.C.OR 27 Victor Hampton 5-10 187 FR-RS Darlington, S.C. 5 Stephon Gilmore 6-1 193 JR-2L Rock Hill, S.C.

9 Ace Sanders 5-7 175 SO-1L Bradenton, Fla. 5 Stephon Gilmore 6-1 193 JR-2L Rock Hill, S.C.

91 Walker Inabinet 5-10 199 JR-1L Columbia, S.C. 62 Davis Moore 6-0 216 SO-SQ Buford, Ga.

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Offense 1 Alshon Jeffery 6-4 229 JR-2L St. Matthews, S.C. 6 DeAngelo Smith 6-0 193 SO-SQ Kingsland, Ga. 11 Lamar Scruggs 6-3 218 SO-1L Jacksonville Beach, Fla. 9 Ace Sanders 5-7 175 SO-1L Bradenton, Fla. 23 Bruce Ellington 5-9 197 FR-RS Moncks Corner, S.C.OR 3 Damiere Byrd 5-9 161 FR-HS Sicklerville, N.J.

10 Nick Jones 5-9 188 FR-RS Moore, S.C. 82 D.L. Moore 6-4 203 JR-2L Bowling Green, Ky.OR 4 Jason Barnes 6-4 214 SR-3L Charlotte, N.C.

73 Rokevious Watkins 6-4 340 SR-1L Fairburn, Ga. 76 Mike Matulis 6-5 274 FR-HS Boynton Beach, Fla.

50 A.J. Cann 6-3 299 FR-RS Bamberg, S.C. 70 Kyle Harris 6-3 273 FR-HS Silver Creek, Ga. 55 T.J. Johnson 6-5 316 JR-2L Aynor, S.C. 61 Travis Ford 6-3 278 SO-SQ Fork, S.C. 60 Terrence Campbell 6-3 295 SR-2L Austell, Ga. 67 Ronald Patrick 6-1 302 SO-SQ Cocoa, Fla.

76 Mike Matulis 6-5 274 FR-HS Boynton Beach, Fla. 78 Cody Gibson 6-6 284 FR-RS Tallahassee, Fla. 87 Justice Cunningham 6-3 265 JR-2L Pageland, S.C. 81 Rory Anderson 6-5 207 FR-HS Powder Springs, Ga. 14 Connor Shaw 6-1 204 SO-1L Flowery Branch, Ga. 17 Dylan Thompson 6-3 213 FR-RS Boiling Springs, S.C. 12 Andrew Clifford 6-2 212 SO-SQ Tampa, Fla.

46 Dalton Wilson 6-0 227 JR-2L Williston, S.C. 41 Connor McLaurin 6-0 227 FR-RS Raleigh, N.C. 22 Brandon Wilds 6-1 223 FR-HS Blythewood, S.C. 31 Kenny Miles 5-10 193 JR-2L Lawrenceville, Ga. 28 Eric Baker 6-0 208 JR-2L Jacksonville, Fla.

Defense 98 Devin Taylor 6-7 260 JR-2L Beaufort, S.C. 90 Chaz Sutton 6-4 250 SO-1L Savannah, Ga. 92 Byron McKnight 6-5 235 SR-3L Laurinburg, N.C.

42 Travian Robertson 6-4 303 SR-3L Laurinburg, N.C. 77 Byron Jerideau 6-1 319 JR-1L Green Pond, S.C. 97 J.T. Surratt 6-2 297 FR-RS Winston-Salem, N.C. 99 Kelcy Quarles 6-4 271 FR-PG Hodges, S.C. 57 Aldrick Fordham 6-3 274 JR-2L Jamestown, S.C.

6 Melvin Ingram 6-2 276 SR-3L Hamlet, N.C. 7 Jadeveon Clowney 6-6 254 FR-HS Rock Hill, S.C.

54 Shaq Wilson 5-11 223 JR-2L Jacksonville, Fla.OR 45 Rodney Paulk 6-0 242 SR-3L Columbia, S.C. 43 Qua Gilchrist 6-1 244 JR-SQ Abbeville, S.C.

32 Reginald Bowens 6-2 248 JR-1L Holly Springs, N.C.OR 24 Quin Smith 6-1 238 JR-2L Lenoir, N.C.

26 Antonio Allen 6-2 202 SR-2L Ocala, Fla. 33 Damario Jeffery 6-3 237 JR-2L Columbia, S.C.

5 Stephon Gilmore 6-1 193 JR-2L Rock Hill, S.C. 27 Victor Hampton 5-10 187 FR-RS Darlington, S.C. 21 DeVonte Holloman 6-2 232 JR-2L Charlotte, N.C. 11 Brison Williams 5-10 206 FR-PG Warner Robins, Ga. 9 Sharrod Golightly 5-10 185 FR-RS Decatur, Ga.

36 D.J. Swearinger 5-10 208 JR-2L Greenwood, S.C. 15 Jimmy Legree 5-11 185 SO-1L Beaufort, S.C.

12 C.C. Whitlock 5-10 178 SR-3L Chester, S.C. 39 Marty Markett 5-10 162 SR-1L York, S.C.

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Specialists 18 Jay Wooten 6-3 204 SR-1L Laurinburg, N.C. 49 Joey Scribner-Howard 6-0 210 SR-SQ Irmo, S.C. 18 Jay Wooten 6-3 204 SR-1L Laurinburg, N.C. 49 Joey Scribner-Howard 6-0 210 SR-SQ Irmo, S.C.

49 Joey Scribner-Howard 6-0 210 SR-SQ Irmo, S.C. 18 Jay Wooten 6-3 204 SR-1L Laurinburg, N.C.

13 Seth Strickland 6-2 194 JR-1L Laurens, S.C.

23 Bruce Ellington 5-9 197 FR-RS Moncks Corner, S.C.OR 27 Victor Hampton 5-10 187 FR-RS Darlington, S.C. 5 Stephon Gilmore 6-1 193 JR-2L Rock Hill, S.C.

9 Ace Sanders 5-7 175 SO-1L Bradenton, Fla. 5 Stephon Gilmore 6-1 193 JR-2L Rock Hill, S.C.

91 Walker Inabinet 5-10 199 JR-1L Columbia, S.C. 62 Davis Moore 6-0 216 SO-SQ Buford, Ga.

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20 Edward Muldrow LB 6-3 190 FR Snellville, Ga./South Gwinnett68 Kyle Nunn OT 6-6 295 RS SR Sumter, S.C./Sumter31 Matt O’Brien SPR 6-0 188 RS SO New Milford, N.J./Bergen Catholic88 Drew Owens TE 6-5 241 FR Charlotte, N.C./Ardrey Kell67 Ronald Patrick OG 6-1 302 SO Cocoa, Fla./Cocoa45 Rodney Paulk LB 6-0 242 RS SR Columbia, S.C./Richland Northeast99 Kelcy Quarles DT 6-4 271 FR Hodges, S.C./Greenwood/Fork Union

Military48 Marcquis Roberts SPR 6-0 218 FR Powder Springs, Ga./McEachern42 Travian Robertson DT 6-4 303 RS SR Laurinburg, N.C./Scotland County94 Corey Robinson DT 6-8 350 RS FR Havelock, N.C./Havelock51 Kenny Robinson FS 5-9 178 RS FR Hilton Head Island, S.C./Hilton Head Island4 Sheldon Royster FS 5-11 187 FR Woodbridge, N.J./St. Peter’s Prep9 Ace Sanders WR 5-7 175 SO Bradenton, Fla./Manatee10 Cadarious Sanders CB 6-0 184 RS FR LaGrange, Ga./Troup County49 Joey Scribner-Howard P/K 6-0 210 RS SR Irmo, S.C./Dutch Fork/Carson-

Newman11 Lamar Scruggs WR 6-3 218 RS SO Jacksonville Beach, Fla./Fletcher14 Connor Shaw QB 6-1 204 SO Flowery Branch, Ga./Flowery Branch71 Brandon Shell OT 6-6 322 FR Goose Creek, S.C./Goose Creek89 Corey Simmons TE 6-4 260 RS FR Lawrenceville, Ga./Greater Atlanta

Christian6 DeAngelo Smith WR 6-0 193 RS SO Kingsland, Ga./Camden County24 Quin Smith LB 6-1 238 JR Lenoir, N.C./Hibriten75 Will Sport OL 6-5 282 FR Milton, Fla./Pace13 Seth Strickland QB 6-2 194 RS JR Laurens, S.C./Laurens97 J.T. Surratt DT 6-2 297 RS FR Winston-Salem, N.C./Parkland90 Chaz Sutton DE 6-4 250 RS SO Savannah, Ga./Jenkins/Fork Union Military36 D.J. Swearinger SS 5-10 208 JR Greenwood, S.C./Greenwood98 Devin Taylor DE 6-7 260 RS JR Beaufort, S.C./Beaufort

17 Dylan Thompson QB 6-3 213 RS FR Boiling Springs, S.C./Boiling Springs73 Rokevious Watkins OT 6-4 340 RS SR Fairburn, Ga./Creekside/Georgia Military17 Angelo Watley LB 6-1 225 FR Lawrenceville, Ga./Peachtree Ridge12 C.C. Whitlock CB 5-10 178 SR Chester, S.C./Chester22 Brandon Wilds TB 6-1 223 FR Blythewood, S.C./Blythewood11 Brison Williams FS 5-10 206 FR Warner Robins, Ga./Northside/Fork Union

Military84 Mike Williamson P 6-1 188 RS SO Norway, S.C./Orangeburg Prep/Columbia

University46 Dalton Wilson FB 6-0 227 RS JR Williston, S.C./Williston-Elko54 Shaq Wilson LB 5-11 223 RS JR Jacksonville, Fla./First Coast40 Josh Woods FS 5-10 180 RS SO Spartanburg, S.C./Gaffney/South Carolina

State18 Jay Wooten P/K 6-3 204 RS SR Laurinburg, N.C./Scotland County/North

Carolina81 Adam Yates PK 6-1 213 RS JR Sparks, MD/Hereford

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From November 23rd through December 31st, from 6-10pm, Saluda Shoals Park will come alive in a blaze of more than a million

sparkling lights. Holiday Lights on the River features over 400 themed, animated light displays on a two-mile loop of the park!

Enjoy the DAZZLING DANCING FOREST with its dancing lighted trees synchronized to classical and whimsical holiday music. See the three dimensional Victorian Village, Old Man

Winter, the holiday classic Twelve Days of Christmas and much more, all in sparkling lights.

WETLAND WONDERLAND WALKING TRAIL 6-10pmTake a stroll along the boardwalk through the WETLAND

WONDERLAND WALKING TRAIL. Watch nature come to lif in sparkling lights. Fee:$1 per person, includes a hayride to

the boardwalk. Holiday lights admission applies.

WINTER WONDER RIDE-FRIDAY& SATURDAY NIGHTS ONLY

NOV. 25-26, DEC. 2-3, 9-10, & 16-23 from 6-10pmGet ready for the slide of your life on the WINTER WONDER

RIDE at Holiday Lights on the river. Zip through a series of lighted arches and experience downhill tubing without the

snow on this 125 foot, exciting, fun-packed family ride. Tubes are provided. The WINTER WONDER RIDE is suitable for children and adults 42” and taller. If you are under the age of (4), you must be accompanied by your parents or guardian.

Fee: $2 per slide with Holiday Lights admission.

NIGHTS OF WONDER • DECEMBER 16-23 ONLY! 6-10pm

Join us December 16-23 only for NIGHTS OF WONDER and enjoy eight fun-filled evening of family activities. Take a ride on the Red-Nose Express hayride, or ride the Saluda Shoals Choo-Choo. Enjoy a leisurely trip through the lights in a horse-drawn

carriage. Concessions, crafts to make & take home, roasting marshmallows and a visit with Santa are additional highlights of

the NIGHTS OF WONDER! Nominal fees ($1-$5) forconcessions and activities apply. Holiday Lights on the River

is a magical experience you won’t want to miss!

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