A 2016 study by analytics website FiveThirtyEight.com found that NFL teams had converted 47.9 percent of their 2-point conversion attempts in the previous 15 years. That puts into some perspective how unlikely South Carolina’s success in that area has been this season.
The Gamecocks are 3-for-3 on 2-point conversions this season and all three have come in their last two games.
“It certainly energizes and charges your team up and if you’re at home the crowd up,” Gamecocks head coach Will Muschamp. “There is no doubt in both of those games you felt that in our crowd and it helped charge up our football team.