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Harvard Gamecock

All-Conference
May 5, 2014
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Never saw this before. Whoever this Dawson individual happens to be, he's been made to look like a laughing stock.
 

18IsTheMan

Heisman
Oct 1, 2014
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Never saw this before. Whoever this Dawson individual happens to be, he's been made to look like a laughing stock.
Well, to be fair, a lot of folks had some combination of these teams in the CFP. Now, us winning the whole thing was absurd, for sure.
 

18IsTheMan

Heisman
Oct 1, 2014
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Woah, and based on nothing but hype about Sellers. My how absurd that hype turned out to be.
Probably the source of most of my angst.

We haven't had a pre-season Heisman contender...ever. All the pre-season hype stuff wasn't much of a thing when Rogers won it.

Much less a QB. We've had good QBs over the years, but QB has rarely been our best player.

Throw in projections for us to make noise in the CFP.

I've been around for plenty of disappointing seasons. That's been most of them. But rarely have we ever garnered the amount offseason hype as this year. And, yes, largely based on Sellers. I knew I really shouldn't believe it all, but it somehow crept in anyway.

I had a hunch we wouldn't be as good as projected, but I didn't really expect us to be a complete and total disaster.
 

Lurker123

All-Conference
May 4, 2020
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I had a hunch we wouldn't be as good as projected, but I didn't really expect us to be a complete and total disaster.

This. I, obviously, have repeatedly be one to push back against what I call the usual summer overly optimistic hysteria.

But even I didn't see us as this bad.
 
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18IsTheMan

Heisman
Oct 1, 2014
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This. I, obviously, have repeatedly be one to push back against what I call the usual summer overly optimistic hysteria.

But even I didn't see us as this bad.
Yeah, I think I recall posting something about a disappointing season seeing us stumble to a 6-6 or 7-5 record in light of the preseason hype.
 

HI Cock1

Joined Oct 14, 2012
Jan 22, 2022
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Never say never.

Nothing is over until we decided it is. Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? And it ain't over now!
 
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Piscis

All-Conference
Nov 30, 2001
24,196
1,708
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The first clue that something was wrong with this prediction is that it had the Gamecocks playing Iowa State in TUSCALOOSA in the first round.

It appears he mistakenly used the Gamecock logo instead of the Alabama logo.
People confusing South Carolina football and Alabama football is a common mistake.
 

Uscg1984

All-Conference
Mar 9, 2006
2,143
2,840
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People confusing South Carolina football and Alabama football is a common mistake.
Only among people who know absolutely zero about college football - which would explain a lot about this bracket.
 
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