| Fans of college football know all too well the | | | | when Miami's teams were perhaps unfairly |
| quality of the teams that the University of Miami | | | | characterized as arrogant showboats that had a |
| football program has fielded in the last several | | | | tendency to believe their own hype. While there |
| decades. Though the program had not won a | | | | was certainly a confident edge to those teams, |
| national championship for most of its eighty-four | | | | the arrogant label was almost certainly unfairly |
| year history, the early 1980s saw a change in | | | | given. The success of Miami players in the NFL |
| fortunes that has lasted into recent years. The | | | | attests to the fact that most players from the |
| five championships won by Miami teams since | | | | school have obviously been team-oriented. Of |
| 1983 (the Associated Press awarded them the | | | | course, it is always easy for fans to hate any |
| title in 1984, with another four titles awarded | | | | team that is more successful than their own. |
| through 2002) are bested only by the programs | | | | The streak |
| at three other schools. With two winners of the | | | | Miami's amazing 58 game streak of victories at |
| Heisman Trophy in their history, the Hurricanes | | | | home represents but one of their many periods |
| have had an impact both as a team and in | | | | of sustained success. The home win streak, |
| personal bests. Their 58 consecutive home wins | | | | lasting from 1985 to 1994, certainly stands out as |
| was an NCAA record that no team has managed | | | | a testament to the quality of the Miami fan base |
| to surpass. | | | | and the advantage that those fans provide for |
| Love them or hate them | | | | the team when playing at home in their own |
| The Miami Hurricanes have had a tumultuous | | | | stadium. The team's 2000 through 2003 streak of |
| relationship with the nation's college football fans | | | | 34 straight wins, however, encompassed both |
| over the years, with almost every fan having | | | | games played at home and those played in the |
| strong opinions about the program - some | | | | stadiums of their opponents. That streak, by the |
| positive and some negative. Miami players can be | | | | way, surpassed the former Miami streak of 29 |
| seen in NFL uniforms on any given Sunday, which | | | | consecutive victories between 1990 and 1993. |
| has caused many college fans to develop a | | | | Home streaks are one thing - going several years |
| resentment of the program. In addition, there | | | | without losing a road game is something else |
| was a period in the 1990s and early in the 2000s | | | | entirely. |
