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
The University of Miami is a private research university in Coral Gables, Florida. As of 2023, the university enrolled 19,593 students in two colleges and eight schools across nearly 350 academic majors and programs, including the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine in Miami's Health District, the law school on the main campus, the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science on Virginia Key, and additional research facilities in southern Miami-Dade County.
Lake Osceola on the University of Miami campus with the Downtown Miami skyline in the background in May 2022
The iconic U statue, which stands nearly seven feet high and weighs nearly 1,000 pounds, on the University of Miami campus in March 2020
Miami Herbert Business School, one of the world's top-ranked business schools, on the University of Miami campus in September 2020
Lowe Art Museum, the University of Miami's art museum, houses over 19,000 art objects spanning over 5,000 years.
