The 1987 Gator Bowl was a college football bowl game between the South Carolina Gamecocks and the LSU Tigers.
LSU finished second in the Southeastern Conference (SEC).
[3] The game would be vaunted as a matchup between the "Black Death" defense of SC versus the prolific pro-style LSU offense led by Tommy Hodson at QB and Wendell Davis, one of the best wideouts in all of college football.
The Gamecocks and Tigers first met as SEC opponents in 1994 at Baton Rouge.
South Carolina won that game 18-17, but is 0-7-1 vs. LSU since.