meineke car care bowl

Charlotte, NC (Sports Network) - The University of Connecticut accepted a bid on Tuesday to play in the 2007 Meineke Car Care Bowl on December 1 at Bank of America Stadium.

The Huskies ended the regular season with a 9-3 record overall and 5-2 mark in the Big East, and will play a team from the Atlantic Coast Conference that has yet to be announced.

"We are ecstatic to have been selected to play in the Meineke Car Care Bowl," said UConn head coach Randy Edsall. "We were almost picked to play in Charlotte in 2004 and 2005 and I am excited that we will have this opportunity in 2007. This game will be an ideal way to cap off an exciting season of firsts here at UConn."
Meineke Car Care Bowl
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Meineke Car Care Bowl

Meineke Car Care Bowl logo
Stadium Bank of America Stadium
Location Charlotte, North Carolina
Operated 2002 ― present
Conference Tie-ins ACC, Big East
Payout US$750,000 2006
Sponsors
Continental Tire (2005)
Meineke Car Care Center (2006)
Former names
Queen City Bowl (2002, pre-inception)
Continental Tire Bowl (2002-2004)
2006 Matchup
Navy vs. Boston College (24-25)
2007 Matchup
University of Connecticut vs. (December 29, 2007)
The Meineke Car Care Bowl is an NCAA-sanctioned Division I-A post-season college football bowl game that has been played annually at 73,367-seat Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina (the NFL home of the Carolina Panthers), since 2002. Certified by the NCAA as simply the Queen City Bowl, from 2002 to 2004, the game was known as the Continental Tire Bowl after Continental Tire became the title sponsor for the contest.

The game's current corporate title sponsor is Meineke Car Care Center. It features a matchup between teams which have ranked at or approximate to #5 in their respective conferences (the ACC and the Big East). In 2006, the bowl game reached a one-year agreement with the US Naval Academy. Navy qualified for a bowl game, and accepted an invitation from the bowl on November 6, 2006. The bowl will select a Big East team from 2007-2009.

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