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The Miami Hurricanes football team represents the University of Miami in college football. The program began in and has won five AP national championships , , , , Miami also holds a number of NFL Draft records, including most first-round selections in a single draft and most consecutive drafts with at least one first-round selection.
As of the end of the season, the Miami Hurricanes have a compiled record of ——19 since the program’s launch. Since , the University of Miami has played its home games at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens , roughly 22 miles 35 km north of the university’s primary campus in Coral Gables.
Prior to , from until , Miami played their home games at the Miami Orange Bowl , which was demolished in The University of Miami football program began with just a freshman team in Miami’s last home game of the season featured a first: the first Hurricane football game played on New Year’s Day against Howard at Miami’s University Stadium.
Burton Rix , previously head coach at Southern Methodist. Bowden College in Miami. After a difficult first year, Miami put together a winning record in and served as host to the inaugural Palm Festival later to be known as the Orange Bowl , defeating Manhattan College 7—0 at Moore Park in Miami. After Irl Tubbs resigned following the season to become head coach at Iowa , [24] Jack Harding was hired to serve as both head football coach and athletic director at Miami.
Harding led the Hurricanes to eight- and seven- win campaigns in and , respectively, before he was called away by World War II service.
Fortunes changed with Harding’s return in , as the Hurricanes went 9—1—1 and returned to the Orange Bowl for the first time since , defeating Holy Cross 13—6 in a memorable game. Hudson dashed 89 yards the other way for the game-winning touchdown as time expired. He hired Andy Gustafson as the new head coach, closing out a nine-year tenure in which Miami went 54—29—3 and won at least eight games in four different seasons.
One of Andy Gustafson ‘s major innovations at Miami was the “drive series” offense, an option-oriented attack from the Split-T formation that relied on zone blocking and featured either a fullback fake or carry on every play. In the middle of the season , the NCAA imposed two one-year penalties against Miami for providing transportation and tryouts to prospective players.
In the later years of Gustafson’s tenure, two-time All-America quarterback George Mira guided the Hurricanes to berths in the Liberty Bowl and the Gotham Bowl , where they lost both games. In , the team struggled to a 3—7 record. Following the season, Gustafson decided to step down as head coach and Charlie Tate , an assistant at Georgia Tech , was hired to replace him.
In December , the program was integrated when African-American wide receiver Ray Bellamy signed a letter of intent to play football at the university. Tate resigned as head coach two games into the season , later citing burn out and fatigue from “fighting the money battle and other battles” as the basis for his decision.
On December 20, , Fran Curci , a former All-American quarterback for the Hurricanes under Andy Gustafson , was named as the program’s new head coach. Reaves needed just 15 more passing yards to break the NCAA record for career passing yards. After the Miami snap at the Florida 8 yard line, nearly all the Gators defensive players “flopped” down on the field. Miami quarterback John Hornibrook walked in untouched for a touchdown. Curci called the incident “the worst thing I have ever seen in football.
Offensive coordinator Carl Selmer was named the program’s fifth head coach in six years. Anderson became the first Miami running back to rush for 1, yards in a season and led the team in rushing for three straight seasons from through Anderson set numerous school rushing records and was Miami’s career rushing leader until , when he was overtaken by Duke Johnson.
Saban’s departure, the constant coaching upheaval Miami experienced during the decade, and assorted fiscal problems sparked the university’s board of trustees to hold a vote on whether to drop the football program down to the Division I-AA level or eliminate it altogether. At the outset of his tenure, Howard Schnellenberger announced to his staff and players his intention to win a national championship within five years, a bold claim for a program that was seemingly on its last legs.
On the field, Miami went 5—6 in Schnellenberger’s debut season , [77] which was highlighted by a 26—10 upset win at No. Schnellenberger set a bowl berth as the goal of the campaign and the team made good on its head coach’s expectations, winning nine games and earning a trip to the Peach Bowl , where the Hurricanes defeated Virginia Tech 20— Miami continued to improve in , going 9—2 [79] and defeating No.
The following season , the team finished with four losses following Kelly’s shoulder injury. Ultimately, Schnellenberger chose Bernie Kosar as the team’s starting quarterback over fellow redshirt freshman Vinny Testaverde.
The Miami Hurricanes started the season unranked and lost 28—3 at Florida in their first game, though Kosar tied George Mira ‘s single-game school record of 25 pass completions. The Orange Bowl-berth was Miami’s first since , but the program’s first national championship remained a long shot, as the Hurricanes entered the game ranked fifth. Miami got much needed help early on New Year’s Day when second-ranked Texas , the nation’s other undefeated team, lost in the Cotton Bowl Classic and fourth-ranked Illinois lost in the Rose Bowl.
Nebraska head coach Tom Osborne elected to go for the win and attempt a two-point conversion instead. The team struggled to an 8—5 record in Johnson’s first season, losing a number of noteworthy games. During the off-season, Johnson made a number of coaching changes, facilitating the switch to the 4—3 defense, and junior Vinny Testaverde succeeded early-graduate Bernie Kosar at quarterback.
The team opened the season with a loss at Florida [92] before winning their next four games, including a 38—0 win over Cincinnati that began a then NCAA-record 58 game home winning streak, [93] heading into a matchup at No. Facing the nation’s top-rated defense, Testaverde amassed yards passing and threw touchdowns to Michael Irvin and Brian Blades , while also running for an additional score, in a 27—14 win over the Sooners.
With No. Miami opened its season as the third-ranked team in the country and climbed to number two after winning its first three games, setting up a No.
Having seized the number one ranking with the win over Oklahoma, the Hurricanes finished the regular season at 11—0, outscoring their opponents —, and accepted a bid to the Fiesta Bowl to play No. Led by Michael Irvin and new quarterback Steve Walsh , the Miami Hurricanes won the school’s second national championship and completed its first undefeated varsity season.
Trailing No. Florida State responded with a touchdown in the final minute, but Seminoles head coach Bobby Bowden opted to go for two points and the win rather than kick the extra-point for a tie, and Miami’s Bubba McDowell broke up the conversion pass in the end zone to preserve the 26—25 victory.
Following the season, more than 60 players on the combined rosters for the game went on to play in the NFL. The Hurricanes had a then-school record 12 players from the team selected in the following spring’s NFL Draft , [53] including Irvin and Bennie Blades , but with Walsh returning in , the team gained the number one ranking with a season-opening 31—0 shutout of then-No.
Convicts game, with Miami dropping an emotional 31—30 loss to eventual-national champion Notre Dame on a failed two-point conversion pass in the final minute.
Johnson left the program in February to become the head coach of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys , [] ending his tenure at Miami with a 52—9 overall record and a 44—4 mark over his last four seasons.
Despite having the support of students, players, and even the Miami police and fire departments, offensive coordinator Gary Stevens was bypassed for the head coaching job and athletic director Sam Jankovich chose Dennis Erickson of Washington State to succeed Jimmy Johnson instead.
In , Erickson became just the second Division I head coach to win a national championship in his first season at a school. On October 28, , Miami mascot Sebastian the Ibis was tackled by a group of police officers for attempting to put out Chief Osceola’s flaming spear prior to Miami’s game against long-standing rival Florida State at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee.
Sebastian was wearing a fireman’s helmet and yellow raincoat and holding a fire extinguisher. When a police officer attempted to grab the fire extinguisher, the officer was sprayed in the chest. Sebastian was handcuffed by four officers but ultimately released. Miami quarterback Gino Torretta , who started the game in place of injured Craig Erickson , told ESPN , “Even if we weren’t bad boys, it added to the mystique that, ‘Man, look, even their mascot’s getting arrested.
Miami entered the following season as the number one team in the country, but a 28—21 upset loss to Ty Detmer and No. The Hurricanes finished 12—0 and captured the program’s fourth national championship in nine years behind quarterback Gino Torretta and a linebacking corps that featured Jessie Armstead and Micheal Barrow. Hurricane Andrew devastated much of South Florida in August , [] causing the program to relocate its preseason practice sessions north to Dodgertown in Vero Beach.
Torretta threw three interceptions, one fewer than he had all season, in what would be the only loss of his collegiate career. Although it was not apparent at the time, the Sugar Bowl loss marked the start of a downturn in Miami’s fortunes.
In , the Hurricanes lost three games in a season for the first time since , [] failed to win the Big East for the first time since joining in , and was shut out in the Fiesta Bowl by Arizona , still the worst loss Miami has ever suffered in a bowl game. With the threat of NCAA sanctions hovering over the program for a variety of infractions, Erickson stepped down after the season to become head coach of the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks.
Following Erickson’s departure, Miami initially pursued former University of Miami defensive coordinator and then- Colorado State head coach Sonny Lubick ; however, he withdrew from consideration and opted to remain with the Rams.
The Hurricanes finished Davis’s first season with a record of 8—3. However, when the Department of Education got word that school officials helped athletes fraudulently obtain Pell Grants , it asked Miami to stop its own investigation while it conducted its own.
Ultimately, 60 athletes were implicated, but all of them avoided criminal charges after being sent through a pretrial diversion program. In , Tony Russell, a former University of Miami academic advisor, pleaded guilty to helping more than 80 student athletes, 57 of whom were football players, falsify Pell Grant applications in exchange for kickbacks from the players themselves.
Federal officials later said that Russell had engineered “perhaps the largest centralized fraud ever committed” in the history of the Pell Grant program. The NCAA also found that the university had failed to wholly implement its drug testing program, and permitted three football student-athletes to compete without being subject to the required disciplinary measures specified in the policy.
The NCAA found that this was evidence that school officials didn’t have adequate control over the football program. As a result of the scandal, Sports Illustrated ‘s Alexander Wolff wrote a famed and controversial cover story, arguing that Miami should at least temporarily shut down its football program.
On June 21, , Miami football players broke into the apartment of the captain of Miami’s track team and struck him repeatedly. The low point for Miami came in when they posted a 5—6 record, the first losing season since Howard Schnellenberger’s first year in The Hurricanes began to reassert themselves in , when they finished 9—3.
The Hurricanes rebounded from a 66—13 “caning” at the hands of Syracuse quarterback Donovan McNabb [] to put up over yards of total offense against UCLA en route to a stunning 49—45 victory for the Hurricanes.
The following season carried high hopes and expectations for the Hurricanes. They opened the year with a 23—12 win over Ohio State in East Rutherford. The Hurricanes rebounded to win their last four games including a 28—13 win over Georgia Tech in the Gator Bowl. Despite beating Florida State head-to-head [] and being ranked higher in both human polls, the Seminoles were chosen to challenge the Oklahoma Sooners for the national championship.
Washington had been ranked third or fourth in the human polls, behind Miami. The Hurricanes went into the Nokia Sugar Bowl as the Big East champions and, after much pregame antics including a brawl between members of the two teams on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Louisiana , [] defeated Florida 37— After being turned down by Wisconsin head coach Barry Alvarez , athletics director Paul Dee promoted offensive coordinator Larry Coker to head coach to replace Butch Davis.
Angered at being snubbed by the BCS, the Hurricanes stormed through the season. They opened the season with a 33—7, nationally televised rout over Penn State in Beaver Stadium. In the final minute of the fourth quarter, with Miami clinging to a 12—7 lead, Boston College quarterback Brian St. Pierre led the Eagles from their own yard line all the way down to the Hurricanes’ 9.
With BC on the verge of a momentous upset, St. Pierre attempted a pass to receiver Ryan Read at the Miami 2-yard line. However, the ball deflected off the leg of Miami cornerback Mike Rumph , landing in the hands of defensive end Matt Walters. Walters ran ten yards with the ball before teammate Ed Reed grabbed the ball out of his hands at around the Miami yard line and raced the remaining yards for a touchdown, resulting in an 18—7 Miami victory.
Miami jumped on Virginia Tech early, leading 20—3 at halftime, and 26—10 in the fourth quarter.
