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. 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.
