South Carolina’s football players are breaking one of the sport’s longest-standing, unwritten rules, but they can hardly help it.
The 24-hour rule is common football player vernacular for the idea that players and teams get one day to feel good about a victory or bad about a loss before fully shifting their attention to the next game, but nearly 72 hours after the Gamecocks blew a 17-point lead and lost 35-31 to Florida, several South Carolina players still can’t shake it.
“I think it gnaws at us. It gnaws at everybody,” senior offensive lineman Zack Bailey said.