The Gamecock football team dropped out of the AP top-25 poll for the first time in 69 weeks. The last time South Carolina didn't make the cut was preseason of the 2010 season.
After former Gamecock great Connor Shaw's first career appearance in a game, South Carolina made the poll ever since until this last Sunday's came out. The Gamecocks' 69-week streak in the AP poll matches the total number of times the school appeared in the rankings from 1980 to 2009.