Will Muschamp and Jimbo Fisher meeting as opposing head SEC football coaches is over two decades in the making.
Muschamp’s South Carolina Gamecocks (3-2, 2-2 SEC) are hosting Fisher’s 22nd-ranked Texas A&M Aggies (4-2, 2-1) at 3:30 p.m. Saturday in Williams-Brice Stadium. This comes 23 years after the two began on the same Auburn staff and 17 years after they started on the same LSU staff.
A professional upbringing in the same league is only part of their relationship.
“We’re friends,” Fisher said Monday during a news conference in College Station, Texas. “We used to own a beach house together.