[2] The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) also provides marketing, management and game-day operations support.

In the inaugural edition of the bowl, played on December 23, 2006, the South Florida Bulls defeated the East Carolina Pirates, 24–7, in front of a crowd of 32,023.

[3] Running back Benjamin Williams of South Florida scored the bowl's first points on a 16-yard touchdown run less than two minutes into the game; he added a second touchdown during the first quarter and was named the game's MVP.

[4] The bowl was originally played at Legion Field, located west of central Birmingham.

With construction of a new football stadium on the grounds of the Birmingham–Jefferson Convention Complex closer to central Birmingham, the bowl was expected to move there.

From 2006 through 2010, the game was the PapaJohns.com Bowl, named after Papa John's Pizza, who became the title sponsor signing a multi-year agreement in November 2006.

Won (7): Duke, Florida, Ole Miss, Rutgers, SMU, UConn, Wake Forest