Mason Love Named One of Ray’s Great 8 – University of South Carolina Athletics

University of South Carolina punter Mason Love has been selected as one of Ray’s Great 8 by the Ray Guy Award for his efforts at LSU, it was announced today. Love, a 6-1, 191-pound redshirt freshman from Riverside, Mo., averaged 41.8 yards on four punts at LSU, with all four pinning the Tigers inside their 20-yard line. The Gamecocks had a net of 43.8-yards per punt in the contest. His punts landed at the 15-, 10-, 8- and 10-yard lines. The lone return for the Tigers was for negative eight yards. For the season, Love is the nation’s second-leading freshman punter. He is averaging 44.8 yards on 24 punts with eight covering 50 or more yards and 10 inside the 20-yard line with just two touchbacks. Love and the Gamecocks (3-3, 1-3 SEC) will host No. 14/13 Oklahoma (5-1, 1-1 SEC) on Saturday, Oct. 18. Game time is set for 12:45 pm and the game will be televised on SEC Network.
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