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UNC to Meineke Bowl
Submitted by kentysiac on 12/07/2008 - 17:58
Charlotte’s Meineke Car Care Bowl landed the local draw it craved Sunday when North Carolina accepted an invitation to play in the Dec. 27 game at Bank of America Stadium.
The Tar Heels (8-4) will meet West Virginia (8-4) of the Big East in a game that will be televised at 1 p.m. on ESPN.
The Meineke has averaged 60,000 fans over its previous six seasons by relying on schools within a short driving distance of Charlotte to deliver big crowds.
In 2002, West Virginia lost to Virginia as the bowl debuted in Charlotte with a sellout crowd.
Two years later, North Carolina helped deliver the bowl’s only other sellout in a loss to Boston College.
This will be the Tar Heels’ first bowl appearance since that game.
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Ken Tysiac has covered the ACC for The Charlotte Observer since 2003, and spent the previous eight years covering Clemson for the Anderson Independent-Mail and then The State in South Carolina. He grew up in Rochester, N.Y., and is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame.Want to post a comment?
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What?
Mon, 12/08/2008 - 16:16 — UNC1998What are you refering to, Lil576? Perhaps there was a typo corrected before I read the blog entry.
WVU lost to WVU?
Sun, 12/07/2008 - 22:35 — lil576How is that possible Ken? Only UNC could figure out how to lose to itself. Let's try WVU losing to UVA.