1991 South Carolina Gamecocks football team

1991 South Carolina Gamecocks football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–6–2
Head coach
Offensive coordinatorArt Wilkins (3rd season)
Defensive coordinatorTommy West (1st season)
Home stadiumWilliams-Brice Stadium
Seasons
← 1990
1992 →
1991 NCAA Division I-A independents football records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 9 East Carolina     11 1 0
No. 4 Florida State     11 2 0
No. 3 Penn State     11 2 0
No. 21 Tulsa     10 2 0
Louisiana Tech     8 1 2
No. 13 Notre Dame     10 3 0
Akron     5 6 0
Memphis State     5 6 0
Army     4 7 0
Cincinnati     4 7 0
Southern Miss     4 7 0
South Carolina     3 6 2
Southwestern Louisiana     2 8 1
Louisville     2 9 0
Northern Illinois     2 9 0
Tulane     1 10 0
Navy     1 10 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1991 South Carolina Gamecocks football team represented the University of South Carolina as an independent team in the 1991 NCAA Division I-A football season, finishing with a 3–6–2 record. The team played its home games at Williams–Brice Stadium. The Gamecocks were led by Sparky Woods in his third year as head coach.

This was the Gamecocks' 21st and final season as an independent. South Carolina would join the Southeastern Conference for the 1992 season after joining the conference in all other sports on July 1, 1991.

Led by returning starting quarterback Bobby Fuller,[1] during a year when "if anything could go bad, it did",[1] South Carolina's three wins were its fewest since 1986.[2] In the season-opener against Duke at home, the Gamecocks were up by two scores near the end of the fourth quarter, but the Blue Devils scored fourteen points in the final seventy seconds to tie the game.[1][3] For the Gamecocks, this would be the first of three consecutive losing seasons in the early 1990s, and the first of seven total losing seasons in the decade.[2]

  1. ^ a b c Cloninger, David (October 15, 2016). "Bobby Fuller came to USC with Sparky Woods, earned starting QB job". The State. Retrieved October 7, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ a b "South Carolina Gamecocks College Football History, Stats, Records". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved September 26, 2024.
  3. ^ "Devils rally for tie". The News and Observer. September 8, 1991. Retrieved February 3, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.