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About the Meineke Car Care Bowl
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, since 2002. From 2002 to 2004, the game was known as the Continental Tire Bowl.
The game's current corporate title sponsor is Meineke Car Care. It features a matchup between teams from the ACC and Big East.
Bank of America Stadium is a football stadium located in uptown Charlotte, North Carolina. It is the home stadium facility of the Carolina Panthers NFL franchise. It also hosts the annual Meineke Car Care Bowl College Football bowl game.
The Carolina Panters played thier first game at Ericsson Stadium on September 14, 1996. The stadium sits on 33 acres (130,000 mē) of land and has a capacity of 73,298. Bank of America Stadium is only used as a football facility, although it also hosted the Rolling Stones on October 10, 1997. The stadium, originally known as Carolinas Stadium, opened in 1996, as Ericsson Stadium after the Swedish telecom company purchased naming rights to the stadium. The Panthers debuted there during the 1996-1997 NFL season. In 2004, the stadium changed its name to the current Bank of America Stadium after naming rights were acquired by a large banking company.
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