South Carolina

Home-field advantage · South Carolina · 2018–present · FBS opponents

South Carolina is worth +4.6 points more at home than on the road.

Middle of FBS, 62nd percentile of 133 programs

54% at home, 32% away against FBS opponents since 2018 (26–22 home, 12–25 away). Interval ±4.3.

Our model gives every stadium the same flat 2.3-point home edge — per-team modelling was tested and did not survive scrutiny (why) — and the books use about 3. Against the closing line, South Carolina has beaten the number by −2.2 more at home than away over 71 games — inside the ±7.1 that many games can resolve. Results here cannot tell the flat number apart from the building, and that is the honest reading of nearly every FBS stadium.

Williams-Brice Stadium seats 80,250 and has averaged 97% full (78,064, 30 games reported). Visitors cover a median 333 miles to get here since 2018 — 47th-shortest of 135 FBS venues, inside the ordinary range. For the home side it is genuinely home ground: 35% of the 2026 roster (36 of 104 located players) grew up inside 100 miles of the stadium.

Edge = half the gap between average home margin and average road margin, FBS opponents only, non-neutral games since 2018; the interval is 95%. Market line: closing spread, seasons with lines on file. Trip length is straight-line miles from the visiting team's campus to the venue, measured across all 56 home games since 2018.