College Football
Bank of America Stadium does not serve as the primary home stadium for any college football team. However, it has hosted several college football games. The ACC Championship Game, first Saturday in December, pits the champion of the Coastal Division against the champion of the Atlantic Division; it has been held at the stadium since 2010, and will continue thru 2013. The Belk Bowl (formerly known as the Meineke Car Care Bowl and the Continental Tire Bowl), late-December, pits a team from the ACC versus a team from the Big East; it has been held annually since 2002.
The stadium has also hosted several East Carolina Pirates games: In 1996 and 2004 versus the NC State Wolfpack, 1999 versus the West Virginia Mountaineers, 2008 versus the Virginia Tech Hokies, and in 2011 versus the South Carolina Gamecocks. An additional Pirates-Gamecocks game is scheduled for 2014.
Local schools, including Davidson College, Johnson C. Smith University, and UNC Charlotte, have not utilized or seek to use Bank of America Stadium.
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