South Carolina Wins 45-9 with Two Punt Returns
LaNorris Sellers completed 10 of 23 passes for 96 yards and South Carolina won by 36. Not a typo. The Gamecocks ran for 405 yards on 41 carries and returned two punts for touchdowns, and they beat Towson 45-9 without needing a quarterback to throw it.
Vicari Swain opened the scoring with a 58-yard punt return at 9:37 of the first quarter. Max Kelley added a 33-yard field goal, Matt Fuller broke a 55-yard touchdown run, and it was 17-0 before Zaydaan Faridi's 41-yarder got Towson on the board with 1:04 left in the half.
LaNorris Sellers ripped off a 58-yard run on the first scoring play of the second half, and it was 24-3. Andrew Indorf's 23-yard pass to Aaron Enterline made it 24-9 (the extra point was blocked), and that was all Towson had. Swain took another punt 45 yards to the house with three seconds left in the third. Jabree Coleman scored from 3 yards and Isaiah Augustave from 55 yards in the fourth.
Take the two Swain returns away and it is a 31-9 game. South Carolina finished with 502 total yards, 405 on the ground, with one interception and one fumble lost. It is 2-0 for the Gamecocks, and 0-2 for Towson. The 36-point margin is the story of the week, and Towson never led.
For fantasy, Sellers led everyone with 21.7 points, 119 of his yards on the ground, and Fuller had 125 yards on 11 carries. Towson's 9 points came from a 41-yard field goal and one touchdown pass, with a blocked extra point.