Gamecocks are rolling: Takeaways from win over Oklahoma

Here in Norman, where South Carolina just put it on Oklahoma, 42-25. Gamecocks have now won three straight. A bowl looks like a certainty. Eight wins looks very possible. And is that a playoff? Let's not get there yet. But, man, what a performance by South Carolina. Over 500 yards of offense. Really just dominated this Brent Venables defense. Give a lot of credit to Kendall Pryles. Give a ton of credit to Lenora Sellers, who threw two interceptions and it didn't even matter. Had an 84-yard down. Dime to DJ Black down the sideline late in the game had a 79 yard pass to Mazio Bennett was phenomenal with his legs to over 100 yards on the ground, two touchdowns. I mean, this was one of the more complete games we've seen from South Carolina's offense, and it really has to feel nice coming against a Brent Venable's defense that has been pretty feisty in his tenure and then give a lot of credit to South Carolina's defense, despite somehow not getting a turnover against. The most turnover-prone team in the SEC, South Carolina basically shut down Oklahoma until the very end there. I thought they just had John Mateer rattled all game, didn't give Oklahoma any semblance of a running game. And just really made it hard on them. Obviously, the fire, Arbuckle chance and booze made it feel a lot like South Carolina's offense in 2025. But really, really impressive win from South Carolina. And now they are five and three heading to back to Columbia, where they'll take on a pretty rough Texas A&M team next week to get to bowl eligible.