The 1988 South Carolina Gamecocks football

South Carolina Gamecocks football

The South Carolina Gamecocks football team represents the University of South Carolina in NCAA Division I college football. The Gamecocks have been a member of the Southeastern Conference since 1992. Steve Spurrier is the current head coach, and the team plays its home games at Williams-Brice...

 team represented the University of South Carolina

University of South Carolina

The University of South Carolina is a public, co-educational research university located in Columbia, South Carolina, United States, with 7 surrounding satellite campuses. Its historic campus covers over in downtown Columbia not far from the South Carolina State House...

 as an independent team

NCAA Division I-A independent schools

NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision independent schools are four-year institutions whose football programs are not part of an NCAA-affiliated conference. This means that FBS independents are not required to schedule each other for competition like conference schools do...

 in the 1988 NCAA Division I-A football season

1988 NCAA Division I-A football season

The 1988 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with Notre Dame winning the national championship. The Fighting Irish won the title via a 34-21 defeat of previously unbeaten West Virginia in the Fiesta Bowl in Tempe, Arizona....

 finishing with an 8-4 record after losing to the Indiana

1988 Indiana Hoosiers football team

The 1988 Indiana Hoosiers football team represented Indiana University in the 1988 NCAA Division I-A football season.-Season:*In the Old Brass Spittoon, the Hoosiers lost to Michigan State by a score of 38-12....

 Hoosiers in the 1988 Liberty Bowl. The Gamecocks were led by head coach Joe Morrison

Joe Morrison

Joseph R. Morrison was an American football player in the National Football League for the New York Giants and a coach best known as the head coach at the University of South Carolina.-Playing career:...

 in his final season as head coach of the Gamecocks prior to dying of a heart attack in February 1989.

Schedule

Roster

Todd Ellis - QB;
Mike Dingle - RB;
Harold Green - RB;
Robert Brooks

Robert Brooks

Robert Darren Brooks is a former American football wide receiver who attended University of South Carolina and played for the Green Bay Packers and the Denver Broncos.-Early life:...

 - WR;
Eddie Miller - WR;
Patrick Hinton - LB;
Ron Rabune - Safety;
Robert Robinson - CB;
Kevin Hendrix - DE;
Collin Mackie - Kicker;

Coaching staff

Joe Morrison

Joe Morrison

Joseph R. Morrison was an American football player in the National Football League for the New York Giants and a coach best known as the head coach at the University of South Carolina.-Playing career:...

 - Heach Coach;
Al Groh

Al Groh

Al Groh is the defensive coordinator of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team. He is also a former head coach of the University of Virginia football team, a former head coach of the Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team and the former head coach of the New York Jets of the NFL...

 - Offensive Coordinator;
Joe Lee Dunn - Defensive Coordinator;
Charlie Weiss - Assistant Coach;
Fred Jackson - QB/WR Coach;