ESPN’s Heather Dinich has the Gamecocks projected at No. 14 in the latest College Football Playoff Rankings, which will be released Tuesday evening. Dinich has Alabama, which defeated South Carolina, as the final team getting in the playoffs. She also has Ole Miss at No. 13.

Here's a closer look at why South Carolina, coach Shane Beamer may make the College Football Playoffs or why they may not.

Clemson and South Carolina square off in one of college football’s best in-state rivalries from Death Valley on Saturday, both hoping to make one last good impr