COLUMBIA, S.C. — Four turnovers and a string of empty trips inside the 20 sent the Gamecocks home to Columbia, South Carolina, with a 34-6 loss at Arkansas on Saturday night. The defeat ended a four-game South Carolina winning streak.
South Carolina was missing starting quarterback LaNorris Sellers, who sat out with the ankle injury he suffered in the Nov. 7 win over Texas A&M. Cutter Woods took every snap and completed 24 of 43 passes for 271 yards, but he was intercepted three times.
The Gamecocks reached the red zone five times and scored only once. Malik Orsan missed a field goal on the first threat, and a fumbled exchange on a reverse handed the ball back to Arkansas on another. The Razorbacks then marched 82 yards in 11 plays, and KJ Jackson capped it with a 23-yard scoring pass to Chris Marshall. Jackson hit Antonio Jordan from 28 yards on the next drive for a 17-0 halftime lead.
Jabree Coleman ran in from 3 yards early in the third quarter for South Carolina’s only points, and the two-point try failed. Joker Johnson answered for Arkansas by returning an interception 63 yards for a touchdown. Johnson intercepted a second pass soon after the fourth quarter began, and Ben Bogle grabbed another on the next series. The last Arkansas points came on a 7-yard Sutton Smith run with 1:50 to play.
Jackson completed 15 of 24 passes for 188 yards and two scores. South Carolina, which came in averaging 205.4 rushing yards a game, managed a season-low 98 on 30 carries. The Gamecocks fall to 6-4 overall and 4-4 in the SEC, while Arkansas improved to 4-6 and 2-5 with its first home SEC win since Nov. 5, 2024.
South Carolina has two regular-season games left. No. 1 Georgia visits next Saturday, and the season ends against rival Clemson.
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