New for the 2009 football season, the official ground-breaking ceremony for the stadium was held on April 4, 2008,[3] and it opened on September 12, 2009, for a sold-out game between the Akron Zips and the Morgan State Bears.

[4] The stadium was constructed to replace the Rubber Bowl, which was the prior home of the University of Akron Zips football team.

InfoCision Stadium was constructed as part of a building initiative undergone by the University of Akron called the "New Landscape for Learning.

[16] In the 2014-2015 season, the cumulative total attendance for six games in the 30,000 seat facility was 55,019, the worst among all 125 teams in the NCAA Football Bowl subdivision.

Principal naming rights for the stadium were purchased through a personal donation by Gary Taylor, Founder and Chairman of InfoCision Management Corporation, a firm based in nearby Bath Township that operates call centers.

[22] Summa Health System, an Ohio Non-Profit Hospital, purchased (by means of its for-profit insurance company, SummaCare) 20 years of naming rights for the field with a $5 million donation.

[23] FirstMerit Corporation, a financial services company headquartered in Akron, purchased naming rights for the club level seating of the press tower for 10 years.