After the game, Beamer was on the team plane back to Columbia when his wife, Emily, brought it up. She had heard through the grapevine that the Gamecocks’ big victory was catching national attention, so much so that “ESPN College GameDay” was coming to Columbia.

South Carolina football coach Shane Beamer explained the sequence right before missed game-tying field goal vs. LSU on Saturday:

Shane Beamer exhausted his only option on Saturday night. South Carolina had just lost a heartbreaker to LSU — once up 17, the Gamecocks gave up the game-winning touchdown with just over a minute to play — and much of the game’s story centered on officiating.