# 1991 South Carolina Gamecocks football team

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, during a year when "if anything could go bad, it did", South Carolina's three wins were its fewest since 1986. 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. 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.

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Opponent | Site | TV | Result | Attendance |
| September 7 | 7:00 pm | Duke | Williams–Brice StadiumColumbia, SC | | T 24–24 | 71,200 |
| September 14 | 1:00 pm | at West Virginia | Mountaineer FieldMorgantown, WV | | L 16–21 | 51,989 |
| September 21 | 7:00 pm | Virginia Tech | Williams–Brice StadiumColumbia, SC | | W 28–21 | 68,200 |
| September 28 | 1:30 pm | at East Carolina | Ficklen Memorial StadiumGreenville, NC | | L 20–31 | 33,100 |
| October 5 | 1:30 pm | East Tennessee State | Williams–Brice StadiumColumbia, SC | | W 55–7 | 55,832 |
| October 12 | 1:30 pm | Louisiana Tech | Williams–Brice StadiumColumbia, SC | | T 12–12 | 52,400 |
| October 19 | 1:30 pm | Georgia Tech | Williams–Brice StadiumColumbia, SC | | W 23–14 | 67,220 |
| November 2 | 4:00 pm | No. 19 NC State | Williams–Brice StadiumColumbia, SC | ESPN | L 21–38 | 67,900 |
| November 9 | 12:00 pm | at No. 1 Florida State | Doak Campbell StadiumTallahassee, FL | JPS | L 10–38 | 60,244 |
| November 16 | 1:30 pm | at North Carolina | Kenan Memorial StadiumChapel Hill, NC (rivalry) | | L 17–21 | 47,500 |
| November 23 | 1:30 pm | No. 14 Clemson | Williams–Brice StadiumColumbia, SC (rivalry) | JPS | L 24–41 | 74,200 |
| Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the gameAll times are in Eastern time ||||||||

## Roster

Bobby Fuller* QB Wright Mitchell QB Brandon Bennett* RB Leroy Jeter* RB Rob DeBoer RB Terry Wilburn RB Albert Haynes RB Eddie Miller* WR Robert Brooks* WR David Pitchko WR Asim Penny WR Bralyn Bennett WR Bill Zorr WR Darren Greene WR Mike Whitman* TE Matthew Campbell TE Boomer Foster TE Roderick Howell TE Mathew Campbell TE Ernest Dye* OL Kenny Farrell* OL Jay Killen* OL Antoine Rivens* OL Rich Sweet* OL Vincent Dinkins OL Kevin Rosenkrans OL Cedric Bembery* DL Bobby Brown* DL Marty Dye* DL Troy Duke DL David Turnipseed DL Ernest Dixon* LB Eric Brown* LB Gerald Dixon* LB Robert Gibson* LB Keith Franklin LB Joe Reaves LB Keith Emmons LB Toby Cates* DB Jerry Inman* DB Bru Pender* DB Tony Watkins* DB Frank Adams DB Cedric Surratt DB Norman Greene DB Daren Parker P Harold Staley LS