It was created in 2006 in commemoration of 100 years of Florida Football and was unveiled before the kickoff of the Alabama game that season.

McCarthy, Kevin M., Fightin' Gators: A History of University of Florida Football, Arcadia Publishing, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina (2000).

His first book The Gators: A Story of Florida Football, published in 1974, traces the history of Florida's football program from its beginnings in 1901 until 1974.

In 2008 and 2009 the stadium was the location of the Florida Football Alliance annual "Alliance Bowl" season championship game.

According to Tom McEwen's book "The Gators: A Story of Florida Football," the university's first game was played in Jacksonville in November 1901, when Florida Agricultural College, the antecedent of the current university, played Stetson.