Shane Beamer gushes over first half vs Oklahoma: 'We're dominating this game'

South Carolina‘s “dominating” first half performance against Oklahoma on the road produced a 32-3 lead over the Sooners in Norman at the break.

Scoring 21 points in the first quarter and forcing the Sooners to switch quarterbacks early, Gamecocks head coach Shane Beamer’s confidence in his team was through the roof when talking to SEC Network’s Alyssa Lang before heading into the tunnel for halftime.

“Honestly, it’s not 0-0,” Beamer said. “I feel like we’re dominating this game in a lot of ways. But offensively, we’ve got to be a lot better. We had a great drive there to finish the half, which was good to see. We know this is a really good defense we’re playing but we’ve been just too inefficient on offense early.

“Obviously know we’ve got a really good defense. They’re going to struggle to score against our defense, but at the same time the scoreboard is irrelevant. It ain’t 0-0. We’re dominating this game and I want to see us come out in the second half, and dominate the second half.”

The Gamecocks defense forced three turnovers during the first half, which explains the fact that South Carolina scored more than 30 points without amassing 200 total yards of offense. They finished the first half with 185 total yards while giving up just 109 to the Sooners. They also held Oklahoma to 2 of 9 on third downs, forcing more than a few punts during the first two quarters.

If South Carolina can continue this dominance during the second half, they will have improved to 4-3 heading into a stretch of must-win matchups for the Gamecocks.

Hosting Texas A&M and Missouri over the next three weeks with a tricky road trip to Vanderbilt sandwhiched in the middle, this dominating performance — if it continues — once again proves South Carolina can be a threat in any game they play in, and then some.

Catch the rest of Saturday’s matchup live on the SEC Network.