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- ↑ "Year-by-Year Records Carolina Football" (PDF). CBS Sports . Archived from the original (PDF) on October 17, 2014. Retrieved June 9, 2015.
- ↑ "No Gamecock Sanctions". New York Times . July 27, 1990. Retrieved June 9, 2015.
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