Rutgers and North Carolina Accept Bid to Play in Inaugural Quick Lane Bowl at Ford Field

• Inaugural Quick Lane Bowl at Ford Field in Detroit will feature a matchup between Rutgers University Scarlet Knights and University of North Carolina Tar Heels
• The Quick Lane Bowl is a postseason collegiate football bowl game sponsored by Ford Motor Company’s Quick Lane Tire & Auto Center featuring teams from the Big Ten and Atlantic Coast Conference
• The bowl game will air nationally on ESPN on Friday, Dec. 26 at 4:30 p.m.

Rutgers University Scarlet Knights and University of North Carolina Tar Heels will play in the inaugural 2014 Quick Lane Bowl at Ford Field in Detroit. The game will air nationally on ESPN on Friday, Dec. 26 at 4:30 p.m.


The 2014 Quick Lane Bowl is a postseason collegiate football bowl game sponsored by Ford Motor Company’s Quick Lane Tire & Auto Center that features teams from the Big Ten and Atlantic Coast Conference.

Tickets as low as $35 are available at quicklanebowl.com, the Ford Field box office (Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.) or by calling 877.212.8898. Fans can follow the official Twitter account of the Quick Lane Bowl, @quicklanebowl, for the most current game information.

Rutgers’ Kyle Flood is the school’s first coach to lead the Scarlet Knights to a bowl game in each of his first three seasons as head coach. In the program’s first season in the Big Ten, Rutgers won all four of its non-conference games, and earned victories over Michigan, Indiana and Maryland. The Scarlet Knights are 5-4 all-time in bowl games after last season’s 29-16 loss to Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish in the New Era Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium.

This will be the second consecutive bowl appearance for Larry Fedora, North Carolina head coach. In 2013, Fedora guided the Tar Heels to a 39-17 victory over the Cincinnati Bearcats in the Belk Bowl. The Quick Lane Bowl is North Carolina’s 31st all-time bowl game, its first bowl appearance in Michigan. The team has won two of its last three bowl games.

The Detroit Lions are only the second NFL team (after the Houston Texans) to host and operate a college football bowl game. The team’s entertainment division, DLI Entertainment, has promoted multiple large-scale shows and events at Ford Field, including seven consecutive sold-out Kenny Chesney concerts, Taylor Swift, the 2003 Basketbowl, 2008 NCAA Men’s Basketball Regionals, 2009 NCAA Men’s Basketball Final Four and the 2010 NCAA Men’s Ice Hockey Frozen Four.

The Quick Lane Bowl is one of five new college football bowl games in the 2014-15 bowl lineup, alongside the Raycom Media Camellia Bowl, Miami Beach Bowl, Boca Raton Bowl and Popeyes Bahamas Bowl.

Quick Lane Bowl social media:

• Website – www.quicklanebowl.com
• Facebook – Quick Lane Bowl
• Twitter – @quicklanebowl
• Instagram – Quicklanebowl