The fate of South Carolina football’s matchup with Marshall this Saturday is still up in the air as the Carolinas brace for the impact of Hurricane Florence, one of the biggest storms to hit the region in years.
However, North Carolina State has already decided to cancel its game with West Virginia this weekend, and that got former Gamecock coach Lou Holtz to thinking about another time NC State and USC faced off in severe weather.
Posting to Twitter, Holtz wrote that his first game with South Carolina came in September 1999 against the Wolfpack, and it “Rained so hard that the animals gathered in pairs looking for Noah’s Ark.