Opened in 2011, it is home to the Florida Atlantic Owls football team and is intended to be the first part of FAU's multi-use development project, "Innovation Village" as a replacement for Lockhart Stadium.

The stadium opened when the 2011 Florida Atlantic Owls football team lost to the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers on October 15, 2011.

[3] The playing surface was named Howard Schnellenberger Field, after the founding coach of the Owls football program, on August 20, 2014.

The architect for the stadium was finalized in July 2008 when the firms of HKS and Schenkel Shultz were awarded the contract, finishing ahead of Ellerbe Becket and HOK.

The Owls finished the season with a 1–11 record, its sole win coming against the UAB Blazers on November 26 in front of a home crowd of 12,044.

During halftime at that game, FAU athletic director Craig Angelos stated that the school was "very close" to making a deal.

[11] On February 19, 2013, the school announced that the naming rights to the stadium had been secured for approximately $6 million by the GEO Group, a private prison investor and operator.

[12] The company's chief executive officer, George Zoley, is an alumnus of the school and member of the FAU Board of Trustees.