The position South Carolina center Hank Manos was put in wasn’t exactly ideal.
As a freshman, he’d played all of 12 snaps in the regular season. He didn’t even get into a season-opening blowout. He was at guard in mop-up work late against Chattanooga.
And yet he found himself in the middle of the line, snapping the ball to Jake Bentley against a good Virginia defense in the Belk Bowl.
“It was a little nerve-wracking at first,” Manos said. “But once I settled down, it was good.