South Carolina’s football team hoped to leave Charlotte on a high note, with the kind of momentum that would propel it toward what even from this distance is a daunting 2019 schedule.
Instead, the Gamecocks wandered out of their locker room and into the hallways at Bank of America Stadium with shocked looks on their faces and a different kind of motivation to spur them through the offseason. South Carolina was humbled 28-0 by an average Virginia team in the Belk Bowl, a result that almost no one, least of all the Gamecocks themselves, saw coming.