[2] The bowl was founded in 1990 by Raycom Sports[3] and was originally played at Joe Robbie Stadium outside the city of Miami.

[10][11] For the 2024 game, the bowl held a fan vote of three flavors to serve as main mascot: Cinnamon Roll, Hot Fudge Sundae, and Wild Berry.

[15] Strawberry received a memorial outside the stadium, and was subsequently "resurrected" following a tribute during the first half—taking the form of a mascot now resembling the replica after it was eaten.

Miami Dolphins owner Wayne Huizenga quickly joined forces with bowl organizers and brought in Blockbuster Video, which he owned, as title sponsor.

[3] Subsequent games were unable to match the success of the first, even though the bowl was moved to the more prestigious New Year's Day slot in 1993.

The New Year's Day experiment was short lived as the organizers of the more established Orange Bowl received permission to move their game into Joe Robbie Stadium beginning in 1996.

Before gaining Blockbuster Entertainment as the corporate sponsor for the inaugural event, the game was tentatively referred to as the Sunshine Classic.

This was also in part due to the Florida high school football championship games being held at the stadium shortly before the bowls.

In 2009, rainy weather turned the stadium's grass field into a muddy, sloppy, quagmire for both bowl games.

Won (10): Alabama, Baylor, Illinois, Kansas State, Louisville, Maryland, Pittsburgh, South Carolina, Stanford, Texas Tech

Lost (6): Arkansas, Kansas, Michigan State, Minnesota, Purdue, Rutgers Duke and Wake Forest are the only current ACC members yet to appeared in this bowl.