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SEPT 6 SEC CO-FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK: Debo Williams, LB, South Carolina,...The redshirt freshman, playing in his first collegiate game, was credited with a pair of blocked punts in the Gamecocks' 46-0 win over Eastern Illinois...He registered a block in both the first and second quarters, each setting up Carolina with good field position which resulted in touchdowns on both occasions. - SEC Football

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ILB Debo Williams, South Carolina
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09/04/21 - Spencer Rattler, rSr/2024, South Carolina, 6-0, 211 (DS#7 QB) + More +

Oklahoma nearly took its hospitality too far. The Sooners' game against Tulane was relocated from New Orleans because of Hurricane Ida, and Oklahoma's athletic department and fans went all out to make their guests feel at home. Oklahoma had the Green Wave painted on the 25-yard lines, and Sooners fans cheered when Tulane's players ran into the field before the game. The Sooners then nearly let the Green Wave claim their first win over a Top 10 opponent since 1973.

Spencer Rattler passed for 304 yards and a touchdown and No. 2 Oklahoma, playing a road game on its home field, narrowly avoided a shocking upset by holding on for a 40-35 victory over Tulane on Saturday. "That was one of the hardest hitting teams, one of the most physical teams I've played," Rattler said. "They came out there, and they played great, better than us, for sure. They wanted to win more than us. You could tell it. We have to be cleaner, sharper, and have to be better." The Sooners, who led 40-22 early in the fourth quarter, gave up a pair of late touchdowns. Tulane had fourth-and-13 just short of midfield with just under two minutes to go when quarterback Michael Pratt ran for only 12 yards and the Green Wave turned the ball over on downs. The Sooners ran out the clock. Oklahoma led 37-14 at halftime. - Oklahoma/AP College Football

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QB Spencer Rattler, South Carolina
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09/03/21 - Christian Beal-Smith, rSr/2023, South Carolina, 5-09, 201 (DS#62 RB) + More +

Christian Beal-Smith ran for two touchdowns while Ja'Sir Taylor scored on a 99-yard kickoff return to help Wake Forest beat Old Dominion 42-10 in Friday night's season opener for both teams. It marked the Monarchs' return to the field after not playing last year amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Beal-Smith ran untouched around the left end and sprinted down the sideline for a 48-yard touchdown in the first quarter to get the Demon Deacons on the board. Then, after the Monarchs managed a field goal, Taylor came through with his huge return that squashed any fleeting momentum for ODU. The cornerback broke through an arm-tackle attempt and stayed on his feet through a stumble around the 20-yard line, then kicked into gear and down the sideline for the 99-yard score and a 14-3 lead. - Wake Forest/AP College Football

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RB Christian Beal-Smith, South Carolina
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09/01/21 - Zeb Noland, rSr/2022, South Carolina, 6-2, 232 (DS#999 QB) + More +

Former Iowa State quarterback Zeb Noland has landed another starting job - this time at the University of South Carolina. Noland was named the starting quarterback for the Gamecocks' game Saturday against Eastern Illinois. Noland was a graduate assistant offensive coach as recently as three weeks ago, the Greenville (S.C.) News reported. Noland, a Georgia native, started five games during his Cyclones career, including four in 2018. Noland began 2018 as Iowa State's backup quarterback but took over the starting spot when Kyle Kempt was hurt in the season opener.

After struggling, Noland was replaced as starter by Brock Purdy, who was a freshman then. Purdy has gone on to throw 62 touchdowns and for nearly 9,000 yards. Noland left Iowa State in the middle of the 2018 season and later transferred to North Dakota State. This past spring, Noland started seven games for the North Dakota State, leading the offense with 740 yards passing with five touchdowns and six interceptions. - Des Moines Register

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QB Zeb Noland, South Carolina
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09/01/21 - Spencer Rattler, rSr/2024, South Carolina, 6-0, 211 (DS#7 QB) + More +

Spencer Rattler has never shied away from dreaming big. "I've been setting goals since I can remember," the OU quarterback said. "I just got off the phone with my quarterback coach a while ago. … We've been talking about national championships, Heismans, since I was 8 years old. To be pretty close to it, and going for that goal, is something we've got to check off the box. "I've checked off a lot of boxes (and) I'm excited to see what boxes I can check off, hopefully." Rattler enters the 2021 season, which the Sooners start at 11 a.m. Saturday against Tulane in New Orleans, as the Heisman Trophy favorite and he's a big reason why OU is a national championship contender.

He's become one of the faces of college football, one of its most marketable personalities in a year where - with the NCAA's new Name, Image, and Likeness rules - being marketable as a college player means more than it ever has. Rattler was one of the first college athletes on Cameo, a site that allows fans to buy personalized videos from celebrities, and for awhile was the most expensive. As of Saturday morning, Cameos from Rattler started at $179. Among college athletes on the site, only Texas running back Bijan Robinson, at $189, draws more. In late July, just before Sooners preseason camp opened, Rattler became the first college athlete to sign autographs at a major memorabilia convention when he appeared at the National Sports Collectors Convention in Chicago. An autograph from Rattler cost $150, photos with him another $150 and inscriptions were $60. - Daily Oklahoman

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QB Spencer Rattler, South Carolina
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08/25/21 - Oscar Adaway III, rSr/2026, South Carolina, 5-11, 219 (DS#65 RB) + More +

Running back Oscar Adaway III tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his knee during fall camp and is expected to miss extensive time, a UNT source with knowledge of the situation confirmed to the Denton Record-Chronicle on Sunday night. Adaway rushed for 572 yards in seven games last season. He was expected to compete for playing time with DeAndre Torrey. Torrey led UNT with 656 rushing yards in 2020 and will be a fifth-year senior this fall. Adaway emerged as one of UNT's most potent offensive weapons after eclipsing the 100-yard mark rushing in each of the Mean Green's first two games of the 2020 season. He rolled up 118 yards and two touchdowns on just five carries in a season-opening win over Houston Baptist and came back to post 104 yards in a loss to SMU. - Denton Record

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RB Oscar Adaway III, South Carolina
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08/25/21 - Raheim Sanders, rJr/2025, South Carolina, 6-0, 217 (DS#21 RB) + More +

Arkansas has nailed down its complement to running back Trelon Smith. Razorbacks coach Sam Pittman made it clear Saturday after the team's second scrimmage of the preseason that No. 2 at the position is No. 5 - freshman Raheim Sanders. The second-year coach spoke glowingly of the physically impressive back. It was likely easy to after watching Sanders make a leap in performance over the first scrimmage and find the end zone twice inside Reynolds Razorback Stadium.

"He ran well, he ran hard and had a good day," Pittman said. "He had a really good day. With Rocket, last week, I'm not for sure that he had - I don't know - but I can't remember if he had more than a 5- or 7-yard run in last week's scrimmage. "He improved so much from in practice, I believe, because (he thought), 'Hey, I'm in the SEC. I got hit by SEC players and I'm still OK.' I think he gained a lot of confidence last week." One of the standouts in Saturday's work, which included roughly 150 plays, Sanders had touchdown runs of 6 and 39 yards. He also had a 2-yard rushing score in the scrimmage last Saturday. - Northwest Arkansas Times

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RB Raheim Sanders, South Carolina
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08/23/21 - Zeb Noland, rSr/2022, South Carolina, 6-2, 232 (DS#999 QB) + More +

In its 10th practice of fall camp, South Carolina added another quarterback to the roster. Zeb Noland has moved from a graduate assistant role to the practice field, taking reps at quarterback during Tuesday's media viewing period. Head coach Shane Beamer confirmed his addition to the roster while speaking with reporters afterward. "He's going to compete like everyone else," Beamer said. "If he deserves the opportunity to play and can help us win football games, he will. And if he can't, he won't." Though he was originally in a GA role with the Gamecocks, the 6-foot-2, 224-pound Noland still has college eligibility. He played at Iowa State for three seasons before transferring to North Dakota State, where he backed up first-round NFL draft pick Trey Lance. Noland took reps at quarterback alongside Jason Brown, Connor Jordan and Colten Gauthier in Luke Doty's absense. Doty was the Gamecocks' starter throughout the preseason before he was sidelined with a foot sprain in last Friday's practice. - Rock Hill Herald

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QB Zeb Noland, South Carolina
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08/21/21 - Aaron Sterling, rSr/2022, South Carolina, 6-1, 245 (DS#45 OLB) + More +

New coach Shane Beamer definitely wanted Sterling back, and Sterling wanted to be back. He proved that in Beamer's first month, the coach crediting his work to get healthy and his encouragement to everyone else on the team. "Aaron Sterling is a guy that I thought had a fantastic summer," Beamer said before preseason camp. "Really committed to getting his body right, getting in shape and making strides from that standpoint." He had to. He didn't want to let anybody down, most of all himself. "Knowing my role on this team. Knowing I got a lot of guys that kind of look up to me," Sterling described as his mindset. "So I just got to make sure I'm doing the right things and being the leader that they need me to be, and the team needs me to be."

At practice every day with the first team, having put on 20 pounds of "good" weight, Sterling is driving back his opponent, coaching his backups how to do the same and not wonderingly looking down at his knee, which failed him last year. He decided as soon as he was medically cleared that he couldn't and wouldn't play tentatively. "My knee's feeling good right now. I just try to keep focused on making sure I get the treatment and stuff, keep it healthy. That's all I'm really focused on sometimes, is making sure I stay healthy." - The Post and Courier

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OLB Aaron Sterling, South Carolina
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08/17/21 - Hot Rod Fitten, rSr/2024, South Carolina, 6-2, 255 (DS#999 DE) + More +

Call Rodricus Fitten "Hot Rod." It's the name South Carolina's roster lists, anyway. Heading into his third year with the Gamecocks, his name was changed to "Hot Rod Fitten" on the official 2021 football roster ahead of fall camp. Fitten said the change was just easier for everyone to understand and pronounce. He grew up with constant mispronunciations of "Rodricus." The nickname has Gamecock origins. Fitten was actually first called "Hot Rod" by a South Carolina recruiter wanting to find a good nickname for him. Fitten also grew up playing with Hot Wheels cars, so "Hot Rod" made sense.

Fitten swapped positions this season, moving from the Buck/Sam linebacker spot over to edge. He saw his first year of meaningful playing time in 2020, coming down with eight tackles across six games. He started at defensive end in South Carolina's last two games against Georgia and Kentucky. He signed with the Gamecocks in 2019 out of Booker T. Washington in Atlanta. He redshirted that first season and took reps on the scout team. - Rock Hill Herald

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DE Hot Rod Fitten, South Carolina
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08/15/21 - Dakereon Joyner, rSr/2024, South Carolina, 6-0, 226 (DS#75 RB) + More +

Dakereon Joyner will talk about the past, because it isn't like there's something to hide. "I think everybody in the country knows what happened," he quipped at South Carolina's Media Day. But a much more personal topic is foremost on his mind. "This the year, man. This is the year," the Gamecocks' fourth-year athlete said. "I just know God is going to do some great things for me. I'm confident, I'm prepared." That's always been the question with Joyner, who had a tremendous high school career at Fort Dorchester High that culminated with the 2017 "Mr. Football" award given to the state's top player. When will the lethality he showed whenever the ball was in his hands in high school manifest itself on the college field? He hasn't been able to do it thus far, mostly because he hasn't had a real opportunity. - The Post and Courier

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RB Dakereon Joyner, South Carolina
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08/14/21 - Luke Doty, rSr/2026, South Carolina, 6-1, 215 (DS#999 WR) + More +

South Carolina coach Shane Beamer said expected starting quarterback Luke Doty sprained his foot and could miss the team's season opener. Beamer said Saturday that Doty, the 6-foot-1, 210-pound second-year passer, got his foot accidently stepped on at practice Friday. Exams showed that the injury was not as bad as originally feared and that Doty was hopeful he could play in the team's first game against Eastern Illinois on Sept. 4. Doty started the final two games last season as the Gamecocks went 2-8. He completed 43 of 71 passes for 405 yards with two touchdowns and three interceptions. Beamer said there was no reason to panic about the quarterback position as Doty will be day to day with the injury going forward. "Luke's in great spirits and is optimistic he'll be able to play in the first game," Beamer said. "But if he's not, it'll be shortly after that." If Doty can't go, the Gamecocks will rely on St. Francis (Pennsylvania) transfer Jason Brown or freshman Colten Gauthier, neither who has taken a snap in a game for South Carolina. - AP College Football

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WR Luke Doty, South Carolina
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08/11/21 - Demetrius Knight Jr., rSr/2025, South Carolina, 6-2, 235 (DS#6 OLB) + More +

After moving from linebacker to quarterback in the spring, Georgia Tech's Demetrius Knight was back at linebacker Friday on the first day of preseason practice. Knight played quarterback at Strong Rock Christian School in Henry County and was recruited to play the position for former coach Paul Johnson. He was switched to linebacker in 2019 upon his arrival to campus and played there for two seasons as a backup. Knight then chose to give quarterback a try this spring as the team was short on numbers following the transfers of James Graham and Tucker Gleason.

However, Knight chose to return to defense, where linebacker and safety are both possibilities. The transfer of quarterback Trad Beatty from Temple (coach Geoff Collins' previous employer) likely factored in, too. "(Knight) did a really good job in the spring trying out playing quarterback and just saw a need to be back on the defensive side of the ball," Collins said. Collins praised Knight for his work ethic and status as one of the top weightlifters on the team. He called Knight, one of the better athletes on the team, "an NFL player" at whatever position he decides to play. - Atlanta Journal Constitution

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OLB Demetrius Knight Jr., South Carolina
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08/10/21 - Spencer Rattler, rSr/2024, South Carolina, 6-0, 211 (DS#7 QB) + More +

Spencer Rattler hasn't taken his eyes off the task at hand. From launching his own clothing line to signing autographs at the National Sports Collectors Convention in Chicago, the OU quarterback has been a busy man following the NCAA's change to its rules on Name, Image and Likeness. But, with the Sooners' fall camp set to begin on Friday, Rattler's main focus is still on the football field. "I just feel comfortable going into tomorrow, just focused," Rattler said. "I just feel in control. We've got a good group of guys - a great group of guys - on this team. It's going to be a fun season." Rattler is just one of the many college athletes who is cashing in on the NIL era, leaving OU head coach Lincoln Riley and his staff with yet another thing on their plate to monitor. "We want our guys to be able to capitalize," Riley said. "And, admittedly, I think there'll be some trial and error with this. We're all learning. It's really new." Rattler enters the season as a front-runner in the Heisman Trophy race, and the expectations for OU are just as high. - Daily Oklahoman

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QB Spencer Rattler, South Carolina
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08/07/21 - *Cam Smith, Jr/2023, South Carolina, 6-1, 180 (DS#8 CB) + More +

South Carolina football will be without one of its key defensive cogs heading into fall camp. Junior cornerback Cam Smith is currently battling back from a cracked bone in his left foot. Smith told reporters he had a procedure on the injury Friday. "Right now I feel great," he said. "I feel like if they would let me take the cast off right now I'd probably start running." Exactly how the injury happened was not revealed. During Thursday's preseason media day in Columbia, Smith came and went on a scooter while his foot was wrapped in a cast. Head coach Shane Beamer said the expectation is that Smith will be ready to practice soon and the hope is he'll be available for the Sept. 4 opener. The coach described the surgery as "a pretty simple procedure." Smith reiterated Beamer's message and said he feels good as he works his way back to full health. "He'll be out starting practice and not fully cleared," Beamer said. "But again, expect him to be ready for for game one." - Rock Hill Herald

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CB *Cam Smith, South Carolina
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