This isn’t science. There is no way to quantify it. You feel it in the gut. You hear it when fans get together. Something is happening in South Florida sports.

Miami Hurricanes football is taking over the town.

UM is poised to do it in a way and to a degree not seen even as it was winning those five national championships across a 19-season span from 1983 to 2001.

The rising Canes are shoving aside the mediocrity-stuck Dolphins and galloping past the downsized, post-Big 3 Heat.

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