Shane Beamer rips CFP selection committee for not ranking South Carolina: 'Keep crappin' on us'
Shane Beamer and the South Carolina Gamecocks are playing their best football of the season, and they continued that trend by going on the road and beating Vanderbilt by a score of 28-7 on Saturday.
With the win, the Gamecocks move to 6-3 on the season, and the team is extremely close to being 8-1. They were right there in games against Alabama and LSU, and ended up losing both of those games by a combined 5 points.
After the win on Saturday, Beamer was critical of College Football Playoff selection committee members for not ranking the Gamecocks earlier in the week.
“The people that do the rankings don’t think we’re worth a crap and that’s fine,” Beamer said. “Keep crappin’ on us, that’s the way we like it. Don’t rank us this week. We’re good where we are.”
Here’s video of his comments:
Shane Beamer after @GamecockFB‘s win over Vanderbilt:
“The people that do the rankings don’t think we’re worth a crap and that’s fine. Keep crappin’ on us, that’s the way we like it. Don’t rank us this week. We’re good where we are.”
Also gives a shoutout to Sir Big Spur pic.twitter.com/4HNsEocK8J
— Matt Dowell (@MattDowellTV) November 10, 2024
Perhaps South Carolina will be ranked on Tuesday night when the selection committee updates their rankings.
The Gamecocks will be back in action next week against another Top 25 team as the Missouri Tigers will come to Columbia.
You were 5-3. What made you deserve to be ranked?
Wondering myself what possessed him to say that. Their playing a tad ‘better’ but the bar was set low…
They’re* outplaying everyone that comes their way lately, by a huge margin. What have you done for me lately?
Maybe cause they beat a ranked team, by 24
Bc they’re 5 points away ( and some 2 horrible calls to boot ) from being 6-1 with wins over 2 teams in the top 10 now
Maybe watch some games next time
Beat a top 10 squad by 24 points. Got robbed by the refs against LSU (twice), and lost to top 10 Bama by 2. If you think there are 25 teams better than us, you’re on drugs.
What about Mizzou? Better hope Mizzou doesn’t beat South Carolina once again.
2 points. Tell me you didn’t sweat and I’ll call you a liar.
Me sweating has nothing to do with it. When the last poll came out USCe was5-3. There were no 5-3 teams ranked. They are now 6-3 and there is only one team ranked that is 6-3, and that is Louisville. I don’t think they nor South Carolina deserve to be raked. No matter how close the games, you still have 3 losses. If it was 2 then we could talk. Though you will have an argument when LSU stays in the top 25 with 3 losses, they at least beat you and Ole Miss. You guys beat TAMU so you have an argument now, but LSU started higher Take care of business and you will beat 2 more ranked teams and will find yourself ranked,
Oh, so now it’s all about records? Where were you when Alabama, finishing 3rd in the SEC, basically politicked their way into the playoffs instead of an undefeated UCF team? Go sell crazy some other place.
3 loss teams aren’t getting in.
when we recovered that onsite, I betcha he started looking up DeBoer’s buyout
I kind of get it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to play South Carolina right now. But the three losses have to mean something.
I don’t think Beamer means it honestly. If anything it’s a way to keep the team focused and hungry.
If they beat Missouri and Clemson and a few key losses in games like Texas vs Texas a&M and Tennessee vs Vandy … Then it is time to chatter. If the rankings truly are supposed to reflect how a team is doing instead of weight on the schedule (2023 Florida State for example) Gamecocks should be around 15-20
With Missouri pulling it out against Oklahoma, you got another SEC top 25 game coming up next weekend.
Let the man do his job … motivating the players and lobbying the voters.
Beamer was not referring to the CFP. He was referring to being ranked in the top 25. Great headline SDS, you’ve GOT to do better kids…
You are aware that the College Football Playoff Committee has their own Top 25 rankings right?
collegefootballplayoff(dot)com(backslash)rankings
If the mandate is “best teams” then he has an argument.
When the dust settles and assuming Carolina keeps up this level of play (not a given), I’m confident that there will be three or four teams in CFP that these Gamecocks could easily beat. What does that mean? Probably not much.
Sounds like FSU last year. You lost 3 games!
I’m not saying that this Gamecock team deserves to be in the playoffs, but I think FSU is a good analogy in Carolina’s favor … they were left out because even though they had a perfect record because everyone knew they were not one of the best teams at the end of the regular season due to injury to a star player. If Carolina stays hot and keeps blowing out decent teams, then I think they do deserve a bump in the rankings.
Currently 8 teams in the SEC have better records.
So what? Reality is that there are several teams in the vaunted SEC who are flat out bad….SC has beaten two ranked teams convincingly, and lost to two more by a combined five points. Cut the nonsense already….if you believe that GA or AL had three losses at this point in the season, and would somehow not be shoehorned into the top 25, then you are delusional. And where were you with your record reflections when a 3rd place (in the SEC) Alabama team politicked their way into the playoffs instead of an undefeated UCF team? GA and AL fans and your nauseating entitlement…..as Ole Miss amply demonstrated last night, the times the are a-changing…..get used to it.
3 loss UGA and ALA. aren’t getting in either. The only possibility is if the 3rd loss was in the SECCG…and that’s slim. You blew your chance a long time ago.
We don’t deserve to be in the CFP top 12 but it is probably time to crack the top 25. Coach Beamer is doing this for optics and to fire up the team and the fan base. I don’t care for rankings until the end of the season and the team just needs to win out. The rankings will take care of themselves.
Okay. I have two comments awaiting moderation. I included the actual words of Coach Beamer which did not include CFP at all. SDS has chosen not to allow me to quote Coach Beamer.
All almost counts for is a moral victory maybe. They lost 3 games.
That’s ok. We’ll win out and go 9-3. Everybody knows the refs stole the LSU game from us. But it is what it is. All we do is beat ranked teams.
I would be careful about saying that. Mizzou has own South Carolina lately. Beamer is 0-3 against Drinkwitz.
Yes, but are you really calling that your ace card for this game? If you have a healthy Brady Cook, a healthy Connor Tollison, Blake Baker, and home field, I will give you even odds. Under the current circumstances, I don’t see Missouri winning this game and it has the potential to be a beatdown. However, South Carolina is known for shooting itself in the foot so I will just say that I expect them to win this one.
South Carolina is much better than their record.
You beat one ranked team. You lost 3 games.
WORST OFFICIATING of the YEAR – 50 sec left in So Carolina vs Alabama – Bama’s Que Robinson rushing the passer, #74 of So Carolina obviously grabs his face mask – (it is even called out from the TV booth by both Joe Tessitore and Jesse Palmer) – so what does ref Matt Loeffler and the umpire Stan Weihe do, they call Robison for a facemask on tackling the QB and just simply ignore the FACT that Que Robinson was held to start the play.