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The Miami Hurricanes represent the University of Miami in Coral Gables and compete in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Miami’s athletics history includes national success in football, baseball, tennis, diving and other NCAA sports.
Hurricanes football won national championships in 1983, 1987, 1989, 1991 and 2001, creating one of college football’s defining modern dynasties. Miami baseball has also built a major national tradition with multiple College World Series championships.
Miami football plays at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, sharing the venue with the Dolphins. Many other Hurricanes teams compete on or close to the Coral Gables campus, including baseball at Alex Rodriguez Park at Mark Light Field.
Miami’s national identity has always been closely tied to South Florida culture and recruiting. The program’s strongest eras helped make the state a center of modern college football talent and intensified the three-way Florida–Florida State–Miami rivalry.
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Miami is unusual among major college football brands because it represents a private university inside a huge pro-sports market. The Hurricanes’ national history gives South Florida a college identity that coexists with five major pro teams.
This team competes in the ACC.
This team plays its home games at The primary venue highlighted on this page is Hard Rock Stadium (football) in or near Coral Gables. College programs use additional on-campus venues for their other sports.
One of the program's defining résumé lines is 5 football national championships.
One important rivalry is with the Florida State.
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