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AP: Garcia doesn't start, rallies Gamecocks

The circumstances are strangely similar for East Carolina. The Pirates hope the outcome of their first matchup with South Carolina in more than a decade is the same, too. These teams play Saturday night in Charlotte, N.C., their first meeting since a 1999 contest in Columbia. Back then a focused, storm-fatigued group of Pirates topped the favored Gamecocks in coach Lou Holtz's first season,...

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