By virtue of his under-the-radar transfer from South Carolina to Clemson in 2023, Hall is the first — and, to date, the only — college football player to appear on a Shane Beamer-coached roster at USC and a Dabo Swinney-coached roster at Clemson. He played under Beamer at South Carolina in 2022.

Shane Beamer wants to play in the College Football Playoff, but he's not pushing the issue -- yet. As playoff dreams floated in players' minds, the South Carolina coach stepped in front of his team for the first time this week on Tuesday morning,

With both teams coming into the matchup as top 20 teams, South Carolina vs Clemson carries a little more juice than it has in recent history. Gamecocks' head coach Shane Beamer spent time addressing the Tigers ahead of Saturday's matchup.