2007 Meineke Car Care Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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Date | December 29, 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||
Season | 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||
Stadium | Bank of America Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
Location | Charlotte, North Carolina | ||||||||||||||||||
MVP | WR Kenneth Moore (Wake Forest) | ||||||||||||||||||
Favorite | Wake Forest by 2½[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
Referee | Matt Austin (SEC) | ||||||||||||||||||
Attendance | 53,126[2] | ||||||||||||||||||
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Network | ESPN | ||||||||||||||||||
Announcers | Dave Pasch Andre Ware | ||||||||||||||||||
Nielsen ratings | 3.6 | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2007 Meineke Car Care Bowl, one of 27 non-BCS bowl games played after the 2007 NCAA football regular season, took place on Saturday, December 29, 2007, with a 1:00 p.m. EST kickoff at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina. Wake Forest won the game, 24-10.
The Connecticut Huskies, making just their second bowl appearance in four seasons since joining the Big East entered the game as co-Big East champions after securing a 9-3 overall record. They faced the Wake Forest Demon Deacons, representing the Atlantic Coast Conference, a school located just 80 miles from Charlotte in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.