South Carolina football has produced more than a few great teams in its history. But which one would be considered the best?
According to CBS Sports writer Barrett Sallee, it's one of a recent vintage.
In an exercise of picking the best team ever from each SEC school, he picked the 2012 Gamecocks as USC's top squad. That was the middle team in the run of 11-2 seasons, one that finished No. 8 in the country behind Jadeveon Clowney's top college season.
"Two years after winning the SEC East title for the first time ever, South Carolina nearly did it again in 2012 in a division that was demonstrably better than it was two years prior," Sallee wrote.