The Gamecock football team will begin the season as a top 15 team per the Associated Press. The AP Preseason Top 25 was revealed on Monday and South Carolina was ranked 13 th .

USC is in the preseason ranking for the 11th time overall and the first time since the 2014 season, when the Gamecocks started the season ranked ninth.

Four voters ranked the Gamecocks as high as tenth, and seven left them off the ballot. Scott Hamilton of the Post and Courier ranked the Gamecocks 12th, and Pete Yanity of WSPA TV in Spartanburg ranked them 14th.

AP Preseason Top 25 (1st place votes):

Texas (25)

Penn State (23)

Ohio State (11)

Clemson (4)

Georgia (1)

Notre Dame

Oregon (1)

Alabama

LSU

Miami (FL)

Arizona State

Illinois

South Carolina

Michigan

Florida

SMU

Kansas State

Oklahoma

Te

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