The 2008 PapaJohns.com Bowl was the third edition of the college football bowl game, and was played at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama.
 The game was played starting at 2 PM US CST on Monday, December 29, 2008.
 The game, telecast on ESPN, pitted the Rutgers Scarlet Knights against the North Carolina State Wolfpack.
Legion Field is a stadium in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, primarily designed to be used as a venue for American football, but is occasionally used for other large outdoor events.
 The stadium is named in honor of the American Legion, a U.S. organization of military veterans and opened in 1927.
 Since the 2004 removal of the upper deck, Legion Field seats approximately 71,594 spectators.
 At its peak it seated 83,091 people for football and had the name "Football Capital of the South" emblazoned from the facade on its upper deck.
 Legion Field is colloquially called "The Old Gray Lady" and "The Gray Lady on Graymont".
 The stadium's current primary tenant are the University of Alabama at Birmingham Blazers, a member of Conference USA.
The 2009 Connecticut Huskies football team represented the University of Connecticut in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season as a member of the Big East Conference.
 The team was coached by Randy Edsall and played its home games at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, Connecticut.
 The team finished with a record of 8–5, 3–4 in Big East play and won the PapaJohns.com Bowl 20–7 against South Carolina.
The 2009 South Carolina Gamecocks football team represented the University of South Carolina in the college football season of 2009–2010.
 The team's head football coach was Steve Spurrier, who was in his fifth season at USC.
 The Gamecocks played their home games at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, South Carolina.
 Carolina finished the season 7–6, winning the Palmetto Bowl over in-state rival Clemson 34–17 in their final regular season game, before losing in the PapaJohns.com Bowl 20–7 against Connecticut.
Jeffrey Jon "Jeff" Bower (born May 28, 1953) is former American football player and coach.
 He served as the head football coach at University of Southern Mississippi for 18 seasons, from 1990 to 2007, compelling a record of 119–83–1.
 Bower assumed the role of head coach at Southern Miss on December 2, 1990 and announced his retirement on November 26, 2007, effective after the 2007 PapaJohns.com Bowl, which was played on December 22.
 The Golden Eagles had a winning record in Bowers' final 14 seasons and played in a bowl game in 10 of his last 11 seasons.
The 2008 Cincinnati Bearcats football team represented the University of Cincinnati in the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season.
 The team, coached by Brian Kelly, played its homes game in Nippert Stadium.
 Kelly was in his second full season with the Bearcats after coaching them to a 31–21 win against Southern Miss in the 2007 PapaJohns.com Bowl.
 On Friday, November 28, 2008, the Bearcats clinched a share of the Big East Conference title for the first time since joining the Big East in 2005.
 With a victory over Syracuse on November 29, 2008 the Bearcats became the outright football champions of the Big East and set a record with an average attendance of 31,964.
 After a disappointing loss to Virginia Tech in the 2009 Orange Bowl, the Bearcats finished 17th in the AP Top 25 for the second consecutive year.
The 2007 PapaJohns.com Bowl was a postseason college football match between the Cincinnati Bearcats and the Southern Miss Golden Eagles at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama.
 The University of Cincinnati represented the Big East Conference and the University of Southern Mississippi represented Conference USA (which Cincinnati was once a member of).
 The game resulted in a 31–21 Cincinnati victory, which did not cover their 11-point spread.
 The payout for both teams was $300,000, the lowest payout among all college football bowl games.
The 2011 BBVA Compass Bowl (formerly known as the Papajohns.com Bowl and the Birmingham Bowl) was a postseason college football bowl game between a team from the Big East Conference and a team from the SEC played at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama on January 8, 2011 (12 p.m. ET).
 ESPN provided television coverage.
The 2010 PapaJohns.com Bowl was a postseason college football bowl game between the Connecticut Huskies (UConn) of the Big East Conference and the South Carolina Gamecocks of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), on January 2, 2010 at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama.
 The game was the final contest of the 2009 NCAA Division I-Football Bowl Subdivision (Division I-FBS) football season for both teams, and it ended in a 20–7 victory for Connecticut.
After losing star halfback Ray Rice to the NFL Draft, Rutgers faced a rebuilding season.
 Senior Mike Teel was forced to step up his game at quarterback without being able to rely on Rice so frequently.
 Rutgers started off very slowly, dropping 5 of the first 6 games, including two to Big East rivals West Virginia and Cincinnati.
 With dreams of a Big East championship now completely eroded, Rutgers now had to recover to try to at least secure a fourth consecutive bowl berth.
 Starting with a 12-10 win against Connecticut on homecoming weekend, Rutgers never lost another game.
 The next week, they posted an impressive 54-34 win over #17 Pittsburgh.
 They won their next four games, finishing the season 7-5 with a solid 5-2 conference record.
 Rutgers earned a bowl berth in the PapaJohns.com Bowl, and they won a close game against NC State for their third consecutive bowl win.

Question: The 2008 PapaJohns.com Bowl was played at a stadium that was opened in what year?
Answer: 1927