Dominique Davis is into grades in the classroom, but when it comes to his team's opening-night loss to South Carolina, the East Carolina senior quarterback can only see it one way.

“The grade is a loss. There's really no ‘A' through ‘F,'” said Davis, whose team squandered a halftime lead against the Gamecocks en route to a 56-37 loss. “We came out fast and we were executing everything and everyone was playing with a mindset, but that second half was a little rough and that's we're working on right now.”

It was a standard night for Davis — 260 pass yards, four pass touchdowns and another on the rush. But like the rest of his team, Davis could not pull the Pirates out of a tailspin of turnovers in the third quarter, which derailed ECU's chance at an upset.

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