1991 South Carolina Gamecocks football team
American college football team season
The 1991 South Carolina Gamecocks football team represented the University of South Carolina as an independent during the 1991 NCAA Division I-A football season, finishing with a 3–6–2 record. The team played its home games at Williams–Brice Stadium. The Gamecocks were led by Sparky Woods in his third year as head coach.
This was the Gamecocks' 21st and final season as an independent. South Carolina joined the Southeastern Conference for the 1992 season after joining the conference in all other sports on July 1, 1991.
Led by returning starting quarterback Bobby Fuller, during a year when "if anything could go bad, it did", South Carolina's three wins were its fewest since 1986. In the season-opener against Duke at home, the Gamecocks were up by two scores near the end of the fourth quarter, but the Blue Devils scored fourteen points in the final seventy seconds to tie the game. For the Gamecocks, this would be the first of three consecutive losing seasons in the early 1990s, and the first of seven total losing seasons in the decade.
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