Florida State–Miami football rivalry
The Florida State–Miami football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Florida State Seminoles football team of Florida State University and Miami Hurricanes football team of the University of Miami. Since the late 1980s, one or both squads have been highly ranked entering the game, adding national championship implications to an already heated rivalry. Field goal and PAT kicks have played an important role in the series with many wide right, wide left, blocks and other mistakes occurring with the game in the balance. Miami leads the series 35–33 through the 2023 season.
Miami and Florida State have played each season since 1963.
Miami and Florida State met as top ten opponents in seven consecutive games from 1987 to 1993.
Miami Hurricanes football
The Miami Hurricanes football team represents the University of Miami in college football. The Hurricanes compete in the NCAA's Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, the highest level of collegiate football in the nation. The team is a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference, one of the five Power Five conferences in college football. The program began in 1926. Since then, it has since won five AP national championships in 1983, 1987, 1989, 1991, and 2001.
The first University of Miami football team in 1926
The Miami Hurricanes hosting Texas Tech at Burdine Stadium, later renamed the Miami Orange Bowl, in Miami, on October 31, 1941
Howard Schnellenberger (right), who coached the Miami Hurricanes from 1979 to 1983 and led the University of Miami to their first national championship in 1983
Jimmy Johnson, head coach from 1984 to 1989, who led the University of Miami to its second national championship in 1987, at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan in November 2009
