Aug 31, 2009

Tickets On Sale for 2009 Meineke Car Care Bowl

Tickets for the Eighth-Annual Meineke Car Care Bowl will go on sale, Tuesday, September 1, 2009, at 10:00 a.m. College football’s first bowl game to call the Carolinas home, the Meineke Car Care Bowl will take place on Saturday, December 26th at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte. Set to kick off at 4:30 a.m., the game will feature the Atlantic Coast Conference against the Big East Conference.

Upper Level Seats are priced at $35 and Lower Level Seats are $65. Individual tickets are available only through TicketMaster. To purchase individual tickets, please visit any TicketMaster outlet in the southeast or online at TicketMaster.com. To order from TicketMaster by phone in Charlotte, call (704) 522-6500. Tickets are also available at the Carolina Panthers Box Office, located at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte.

Club Level seats are only available through ticket and sponsorship packages. To purchase these packages, please call the Meineke Car Care Bowl office toll free at (800) 618-8149 or online at www.MeinekeCarCareBowl.com.

The first college bowl game to call the Carolinas home, the 2008 Meineke Car Care Bowl drew a sellout crowd of 73,712 fans and ranked fourth overall in attendance for bowl games this past year, behind only the BCS Championship, Cotton Bowl and Fiesta Bowl. It has averaged over 62,000 fans each year with three sellouts in its seven years. In addition, the game has reached over 18 million television households. In 2003, it was named one of the five-best start-ups in sports over the past five years by the Sports Business Journal, behind only the NFL Houston Texans and ESPN the Magazine.

The inaugural game, played on December 28, 2002 before a sold-out stadium, saw Virginia defeat West Virginia, 48-22. On December 27, 2003, Virginia once again claimed victory, this time over Pittsburgh, 23-16. The third year again produced a sellout, as Boston College defeated North Carolina, 37-24, on December 30, 2004.

NC State defeated South Florida, 14-0, on December 31, 2005. Boston College defeated Navy 25-24, on a field goal as time expired on December 30, 2006. Wake Forest defeated UConn, 24-10 on December 29, 2007, and this past year, West Virginia defeated North Carolina, 31-30 in front of the bowl’s third sellout, on December 27, 2008.

For more information, please visit www.MeinekeCarCareBowl.com.

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