Paul Finebaum Says South Carolina Would Have Beaten LSU Without ESPN GameDay In Columbia

ESPN's Paul Finebaum appeared on ‘The Matt Barrie Show’ Sunday and gave a hot take about LSU's 36-33 win at South Carolina.

According to Finebaum, the Gamecocks would have beaten LSU if ESPN College GameDay wasn't in Columbia last weekend. Per On3:

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“I think South Carolina would have beaten LSU without GameDay,” said Finebaum.

Part of that may be because the home team is now 0-3 this season when College GameDay is in town. Notre Dame beat Texas A&M in College Station to open the season before Texas won over Michigan in The Big House the weekend after. LSU then came back to defeat South Carolina in this one.

Still, to Finebaum, this was more about the Gamecocks spending too much time enjoying the spotlight. That was specifically so in the case of Shane Beamer who he felt was doing too much besides planning after appearing both on The Pat McAfee Show on Friday and then College GameDay earlier in the morning before the conference game.

“I am convinced that Beamer spent way too much time, you know, grabbing shots with McAfee and Saban and Herbie and not enough time working on the game plan,” said Finebaum. “The last couple minutes of that game? Beamer was atrocious.”

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