South Carolina has heard from two Heisman Trophy winners from Florida. Gamecocks coach Steve Spurrier says his former Gators quarterback, Danny Wuerffel, spoke to the team before practice Wednesday. Spurrier won the Heisman Trophy in 1966. Three decades later, Wuerffel earned the honor as Spurrier’s quarterback during Florida’s national championship season.

South Carolina kicker Spencer Lanning, who tied a school record with five field goals against Georgia, has been named a star of the week by the Lou Groza Collegiate Placekicker Award.

South Carolina has yet to play a home football game, yet plans are shaping up for its future schedules. The school announced Wednesday that the Gamecocks would open the 2010 season against Southern Miss on Sept. 2, a Thursday night game to be telecast by ESPN.

South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier says he wants to look at a lot of different players but hasn’t had an opportunity because the Gamecocks’ two games this year have been so close.

A federal judge has rejected a $33 million settlement between the Securities and Exchange Commission and Bank of America over bonuses paid by Merrill Lynch. U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff called the proposed consent judgment “inadequate.“

The federal government says its proposed settlement with Bank of America for misleading shareholders about bonuses for executives paid by Merrill Lynch is fair, reasonable and adequate. The Securities and Exchange Commission affirmed in a legal filing its defense of the proposed $33 million settlement over the bonus affair, which arose after Bank of America Corp. agreed to buy Merrill for $50 billion a year ago.

South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier doesn’t want to see his team play too conservatively Saturday against Georgia, but he’s not ready to just chunk the ball downfield either.

North Carolina State is looking for a rare fast start when it faces South Carolina in the season opener for both teams.

South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier says receiver Dion LeCorn won’t play in Thursday’s opener at North Carolina State, while another receiver, DeMario Bennett, could also miss the game due to injury.

South Carolina defensive coach Ellis Johnson says he expects suspended defensive end Clifton Geathers to miss the Gamecocks opener at North Carolina State.

Georgia tight end Bryce Ros is ending his football career due to a chronic foot condition. Georgia director of sports medicine Ron Courson says Ros, a redshirt freshman from Kennesaw, suffers from chronic degenerative changes in his right big toe joint.

The University of South Carolina Gamecock football team worked out twice on Tuesday, hitting the Bluff Road Proving Grounds for about 90 minutes in the morning then for another two-hour stint in the evening hours.

The 13th-ranked Georgia football team practiced for an hour and 45 minutes at the Woodruff Practice Fields on Tuesday afternoon after taking the day off Monday with it being the first day of classes.

The White House is fine with bailed-out insurer AIG’s decision to pay its new CEO $7 million a year. Presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs says that’s the price of competent leadership to make the company profitable again.

South Carolina freshman defensive end Ronald Byrd will miss the season with a knee injury. Gamecocks coach Steve Spurrier said Wednesday that Byrd hurt his left knee during a scrimmage this week and would need surgery.