It took Steve Spurrier six seasons, but in 2010 he took South Carolina to their first SEC Championship Game. Despite going to the Championship Game they lost five times (two of them to National Champion Auburn). There were a lot of questions surrounding whether South Carolina had arrived or if they just benefited from a weak SEC East. Coming into 2011, the Gamecocks were one of the favorites to win the SEC East (in our pre-season predictions we had them #18 overall and voted them into a tie for the SEC East and Phil Steele had them 14th overall and 2nd in the SEC East).
So how did the Gamecocks fare? If I would have told you before the season that they would lose their starting QB (Stephen Garcia) and star RB (Marcus Lattimore) prior to the end of the season most would have thought the Gamecocks would have fallen to third or even fourth in the SEC East. Despite losing two key offensive cogs, the Gamecocks finished with the most wins in school history (11) and won double digits game...
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