Remember when Mississippi State got slapped with a $500K fine for storming the field after beating No. 12 Arizona State? South Carolina nearly had to sign that same check Saturday night but it wasn’t meant to be. Instead, Shane Beamer and the Gamecocks found themselves watching fourth-ranked Alabama snatch victory in the final 34 seconds, turning their celebration plans into tragedy.

As South Carolina clung to their late fourth-quarter lead, cameras caught the Williams-Brice student section inching closer to the hedges, ready to rush the field. Even The Athletic’s Stewart Mandel voiced most people’s thoughts in his X post on October 25. “ Not gonna lie, I thought something like that might happen to South Carolina when they showed the students getting in position to storm the

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