The South Carolina Gamecocks will look to improve to 2-0 on Saturday night, set to take on the FCS Towson Tigers at home. The Gamecocks are listed as huge favorites against Towson, coming off of a massive 57-0 victory over Kent State.
Defensively, head coach Shane Beamer and defensive coordinator Clayton White would love to produce another shutout against Towson. The Tigers are averaging 16.5 points per game across their first games.
While of course, producing a shutout is great for any defense, there is one area that the Gamecocks can improve on from last week. And that is in the pass-rush and producing sacks. The Gamecocks registered just one sack last week on Kent State's Dru DeShields, from Anthony Addison.
But there is a big chance that that will change on Saturday against Towson. That's because starting quarterback Andrew Indorf has already been sacked eight times through the Tigers' first two games. That's nearly more than half of how many sacks Indorf saw last season alone, getting sacks 17 times in 2025. Towson lost 21-18 in Week Zero to Maine, and lost 42-15 to Navy last week.
Against Maine, Towson allowed six sacks to the Bears defense. Last week against Navy, the Midshipmen got to Indorf twice. Across his two games
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White, South Carolina's longtime defensive coordinator, spoke leading up to the game about his unit's approach against Kent State last week, as well as what it needs to do to improve on getting more sacks in.
"We knew the ball was going to get out fast," White said via Gamecock Central. "So we had some things that we wanted to try to knock the ball down. He had a very low release. I think it was 1.9 (seconds), he got the ball out on average throughout Saturday. That’s tough to get to the quarterback. But we had an opportunity. Probably should have had three or four more than what we had, but pass rush was fine. When I gave them an opportunity to go pass rush, I felt like — and it was a dropback situation — they did a good job, got him off his spot, and got one sack, but we should have more.”
Of course, one big factor as to why South Carolina's pass rush wasn't as present against Kent State is likely due to the absence of star EDGE rusher Dylan Stewart. Coach Beamer said this week that Stewart, along with left tackle Jacarrius Peak, has been practicing in full pads. But both are still out for this week against the Tigers.
Hopefully we see another big day for Addison, as well as true freshman Julian Walker, Gabriel Brownlow-Dindy, Tomiwa Durojaiye and Caleb Herring against Towson.
Saturday's game will kick off at 7 p.m. ET.
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