Football wraps up at home with a 56-12 win over Wofford – University of South Carolina Athletics

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — LaNorris Sellers threw for 307 yards with three touchdowns and just four incompletions to lead No. 19 South Carolina to a 56-12 victory over Wofford on Saturday night.

It wasn’t the cleanest of games for the Gamecocks (8-3, 5-3 SEC, No. 18 CFP), but they finished the game without any major injuries and let their starters work for most of the fourth quarter.

The redshirt freshman Sellers continues to grow into one of the league’s best quarterbacks. He completed 23 of his 27 passes to nine different receivers. And if anything, Sellers put the ball away and ran, averaging more than four yards on his thirteen carries.

Raheim Sanders ran for 72 yards, while Dalevon Campbell caught five passes for 120 yards for the Gamecocks.

Wofford (5-7) took a 3-0 lead and picked off Sellers on its first possession, but the success was only fleeting. The Terriers have lost 18 straight to South Carolina, with their last win coming in 1917.

Takeaways

South Carolina: Perhaps even more important for the Gamecocks was what happened elsewhere. A few teams above and around the Gamecocks in the College Football Playoff rankings lost. The Gamecocks likely need a little more chaos to reach the playoffs, but a win over Clemson next week would give them a good argument among three-loss teams.