The football gods sure knew how to stir the pot for this one. Mercedes-Benz Stadium turned into a family reunion with shoulder pads when Shane Beamer ’s South Carolina squad threw down against Virginia Tech. The very program his pops, the legendary Frank Beamer , built brick by brick. The No. 13 Gamecocks didn’t just sneak out a win. they muscled past the Hokies 24–11 in a hard-nosed, chest-thumping SEC vs. ACC slugfest. Shane leaned into the past, dug into that Beamer DNA, and then kept it real afterward with one of the bluntest confessions of Week 1.

Shane Beamer didn’t play coy. When asked what he saw , he cracked, “Yeah. Physical, tough, mentally and physically early in the game, I thought we were doing that. And I mean, there were some ugly runs, but if you look up on a lot of

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