Usually, people talk about lightning not striking twice, but now that South Carolina took down Tennessee and Clemson (at Clemson) in consecutive weeks, what happens when lightning strikes three times?
USC has a chance to make it three consecutive victories over ranked opponents in as many games this Friday afternoon when the Gamecocks travel to Jacksonville to take on the Notre Dame Fighting Irish for the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl.
It will be the first time these two schools will be meeting up since 1984.
Although the Cocks have been playing well recently on paper, the hype has chilled down a bit following an outcry from fans following the hire of Dowell Loggains to be the team’s new offensive coordinator (because fans are apparently never happy with who the team has calling the plays) and key players putting their names in the transfer portal.