The 2008 Meineke Car Care Bowl was the seventh edition of the college football

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, and was played at Bank of America Stadium in

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. The game started at 1:00 PM US EST on Saturday, December 27,

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. The game, telecast on

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, pitted the North Carolina Tar Heels against the

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, with the Mountaineers winning over the Heels 31–30. The crowd of 73,712 was the largest in the bowl's seven-year history and the largest ever to see a college football game in the state of North Carolina. It was also the fourth-largest crowd of the 2008 bowl season, and the second-largest for a non- BCS bowl.

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