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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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Since 2002, we've correctly projected the winner of every single Heisman Trophy contest. Starting in 2010, we're running a season-long Heisman Trophy poll, providing ongoing commentary, and aggregating the best news about the top Heisman candidates around the country.

When it comes to our projections, well, we really can't say it any better than ESPN's Neil Everett - just a few days before the 2009 winner was announced: