Shane Beamer felt confident during his in-game interview about South Carolina football’s performance against Texas A&M on Saturday, Nov. 15.
Following a defensive scoop-and-score that put South Carolina up 17-3 in the first quarter, Beamer — in an in-game interview with ESPN’s Taylor McGregor — offered a surprisingly candid response for a college football coach:
‘Just guys making plays,” Beamer said. “We’re not surprised. We beat this team by 24 points last year. Our guys didn’t come in here just to compete.”
However, it was the No. 3-ranked Aggies (No. 3 in College Football rankings) who got the last laugh over Beamer and the Gamecocks after the Aggies made an improbable 27-point comeback to defeat the Gamecocks 31-30 at Kyle Field in College Station.
Following the game, the Texas A&M football took a clip from the interview and quote-retweeted the video to the final score of the game on X (formerly Twitter).
‘We’re not surprised,’ Beamer says in the one-second clip.
Texas A&M trailed South Carolina 30-3 at halftime. Going into the game, SEC teams were 0-286 when trailing by 27 points or more since 2004. The Aggies scored 28 unanswered points, making it the program’s largest comeback ever.