2018 South Carolina Football Schedule

Table of Content

• South Carolina Gamecocks
• Interested in joining the marching band?
• Game summaries
• Gamecocks in the Olympics
• Coastal Carolina University Athletics
• Source: Texas A&M QB Hynes King transferring to Georgia Tech
• University of South Carolina Men's Basketball
• Men's Fanatics Branded Charcoal South Carolina Gamecocks 2022 NCAA Women's Basketball National Champions Regulation T-Shirt

The final exam schedule is designed for full semester length classes. The University Registrar establishes the official calendar followed by the University of South Carolina system. Access the full current and upcoming semester academic calendars to find key dates and information including holidays, registration dates, payment deadlines, drop or add dates, exams and commencement for each term. New woodwind and brass players interested in joining the Carolina Band must submit a prescreening audition video. Review of videos begins April 3, 2023, and notification of admission begins April 10, 2023. Submissions continue to be reviewed throughout the spring and summer, and auditions continue to be accepted as space permits.

The band’s traditional pregame show and varied halftime shows highlight all genres of music, from traditional school songs to pop music, including rock, jazz and music from movies and television. The Carolina Band performs for home football games at Williams-Brice Stadium and at all away games. Performing regularly for millions on national television, recent highlights include appearances at the 2013 and 2018 Outback Bowl, 2014 Capital One Bowl, and 2014 Independence Bowl. In fall 2015 the band was invited to perform as the halftime entertainment for a Carolina Panthers NFL game in Charlotte, NC.

South Carolina Gamecocks

The South Carolina Gamecocks women's basketball team represents the University of South Carolina and competes in the Southeastern Conference. During the 1980s, the Gamecocks won five regular season Metro Conference championships and three conference tournament championships. Under Staley, the Gamecocks have earned a #1 seed in the NCAA Tournament 4 consecutive seasons (2014–2017). The 2015 season also saw the team win its first out of two NCAA regional championships and advance to the Final Four for the first time in school history.

The rivalry was renewed in football during the 2007 season, with the Gamecocks defeating the Tar Heels 21–15. The University of South Carolina uses "Gamecocks" as its official nickname and mascot. Founded in 1920 as a student-led group of approximately 20 students, the Carolina Band has grown to number more than 350 students representing over 70 academic majors and 20 states.

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South Carolina's out of conference opponents represent the ACC, MAC, SoCon and Sun Belt conferences. The Gamecocks hosted three non–conference games which are against Coastal Carolina of the Sun Belt, Akron of the MAC and Chattanooga of the SoCon. South Carolina traveled to archrival Clemson of the ACC for 116th annual Palmetto Bowl to finish the regular season.

Since joining the SEC, the Gamecocks have been part of the league's East Division. "Garnet and black" have been used by the University of South Carolina as its colors ever since the family of J. William Flinn presented a banner composed of those colors to the football team in November 1895, although there was no official adoption of the colors at that time. In 1900, the football team was first referred to as the "Gamecocks" by The State newspaper. The nickname was a reference to the fighting tactics of General Thomas Sumter, the Revolutionary War hero known as the Fighting Gamecock.

Game summaries

After that season, South Carolina, along with fellow SEC member Kentucky (the only other SEC member with varsity men's soccer), moved that sport to the Sun Belt Conference. Women's beach volleyball competed as an independent before joining the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association for the 2016 season (2015–16 school year). South Carolina rugby offers scholarships to certain athletes of up to $60,000 over a four-year period. The rugby team is supported by the Carolina Rugby Foundation and by the Carolina Men's Rugby Endowment Fund. “The Mighty Sound of the Southeast” performs powerful, exciting and entertaining music designed to reach a wide-ranging audience.

Students in the Carolina Band represent nearly every college and school on the USC Columbia campus, with numerous Honors College students and Capstone Scholars. Having marched for over a century, it continues to entertain fans, serve the university and community, and provide students with an outlet to represent the very best of what the University of South Carolina has to offer. The Gamecocks had three players at five positions selected to the preseason all-SEC teams. Founded in 2015, the South Carolina Club Baseball team competes in Division 1 of the National Club Baseball Association. The team finished first in the South Atlantic Conference's Eastern Region in 2020 and 2022. In 2020, then-school president Robert Caslen recognized the team, and pledged to host an ice cream party for the team as a reward for sweeping rival Clemson University in a two-game series in Columbia.

Gamecocks in the Olympics

Most recently, the Gamecocks won the 2017 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament National Championship, marking the first ever National Championship that the men's or women's program has ever won in school history. The Gamecocks share a home with the South Carolina men's basketball team at the 18,000-seat Colonial Life Arena. The South Carolina Gamecocks football team represents the University of South Carolina and competes in the Football Bowl Subdivision of the NCAA and the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference. The team plays its home games at Williams-Brice Stadium, the 20th largest stadium in college football.

Given that garnet and black were already in use and also the dominant colors on a gamecock, the university gradually adopted "Gamecocks" and "garnet and black" as the official nickname and colors for its athletic teams. Rankings from AP PollThe 2018 South Carolina Gamecocks football team represents the University of South Carolina in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. This season marks the Gamecocks 125th overall season, 27th as a member of the SEC, and 3rd under head coach Will Muschamp.

The Gamecocks play their home games at Williams–Brice Stadium in Columbia, South Carolina. The South Carolina Gamecocks women's track and field team represents the University of South Carolina and competes in the SEC, where they have won three conference championships . South Carolina sponsors team in 8 men's and 11 women's NCAA sanctioned sports. All of the University's varsity teams compete at the Division I level of the NCAA, and all but men's soccer and women's beach volleyball compete in the Southeastern Conference. Men's soccer competes in the Sun Belt Conference and women's beach volleyball competes in the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association because the SEC does not sponsor those sports.

Muschamp has led the Gamecocks to 15 wins and 11 losses over his first two years, tying Steve Spurrier, and Joe Morrison for most wins in the first two seasons as a Gamecock head coach. On December 6, Offensive Coordinator Kurt Roper was terminated after offensive struggles. Co-offensive coordinator/wide receivers coach Bryan McClendon served as the offensive coordinator for the Outback Bowl win against Michigan, and was promoted to permanent offensive coordinator to replace Roper. Werner has previously been on Ole Miss, Miami, and Alabama's coaching staff. The two institutions are separated by just over 125 miles and have been bitter rivals since Clemson's founding in 1889.

Source: Texas A&M QB Hynes King transferring to Georgia Tech

Accomplishments include the 2010 SEC East title, the 1969 ACC championship, and numerous bowl victories and top 25 rankings. Players inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame include George Rogers and Sterling Sharpe. The South Carolina Gamecocks men's basketball team represents the University of South Carolina and competes in the Southeastern Conference . The program also won the 1997 SEC championship, National Invitation Tournament titles in 2005 and 2006, and a share of the 2009 SEC Eastern division title.

South Carolina recorded their fifth 9-win season in the last 8 years, going 9–4, 5–3 in the SEC. The Gamecocks finished in the top 2 in the SEC East for the 4th time in 8 years, and won their fifth bowl game in 7 years defeating Michigan 26–19 in the Outback Bowl. Some school's results have been altered by retroactive NCAA penalties. As a matter of policy, Sports Reference only reports the results of games as played on the field.