But that’s been the kind of season it’s been for the Gamecocks who dropped a 27-24 decision to the Vols in front of 101,253 at Neyland Stadium. He said he didn’t get the pass route, so therefore he was going to hand the football off to our running back. On South Carolina’s next series, Orth threw a touchdown pass to Adams when the Gamecocks went for the touchdown rather than settling for a field goal on fourth-and-goal from the 7. Adams was trying to gain extra yardage when Malik Foreman knocked the ball out of his arm. He lays it on the line, day in and day out, play after play. “Jerell was being Jerell there”. How different things might have been had USC just been able to run out the clock. South Carolina has beaten Vanderbilt 19-10 and has lost 35-28 at Texas A&M in two games under Elliott. Thus began the whole will-he-or-won’t-he saga culminating in his resignation October 13, and a rematch with the Vols featuring Shawn Elliott as USC’s interim head coach.
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But, with only three games remaining, it could be time to wonder if the team will consider giving maximum effort without results.
Elliott is proud with what he has seen so far, however.
We will continue to monitor Harris’ situation and pass along any updates as they become available from the team. They were playing with house money and had nothing to lose at all. “Our defensive coaches did a great job moving forward after those first two drives”.
The defense continued a trend that has followed them throughout the season. The Vols hung on, 27-24, to survive what would have been yet another dismal second-half collapse.
The offense took a cue from its defense as it garnered 271 of its 385 yards in the final two quarters.
The Vols are expected to win big against the Gamecocks (they’re favored by 17), but this is a game where they need to completely dominate. Dobbs fumbled on the first play of the third possession, and though the Gamecocks missed a field goal on the ensuing series, it set the tone that the Vols would struggle to put the game away.
The game didn’t figure to be exciting early as the Vols took a 17-0 lead in the second quarter. While deep in Tennessee territory the Gamecocks fumbled the ball. That was a bit too much for the team to handle. Probably Jarvis Moss blocking Ryan Succop’s field goal at The Swamp in 2006 was the topper, and Jared Cook dropping a wide-open tying touchdown pass against Auburn that same year is up there.
One of those touchdown tosses went to linebacker Jonathan Walton, who was playing running back for the first time in college.
“The guy just came up behind him and punched it out”, South Carolina quarterback Perry Orth said. I believe in him and our coaching staff (believes in him).
Tennessee’s LaTroy Lewis (4) deflects a South Carolina pass. The South Carolina Gamecocks visited the Tennessee Volunteers in SEC football action November 7, 2015.
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The field goal came after Josh Malone dropped a ideal Dobbs throw in the end zone that would have given Tennessee a touchdown lead.
