As we endure the long summer while waiting for the start of football season, State of the U will look back each Friday on a great game in Hurricane football history to get us pumped for the season. This week, we re-visit Miami's program-defining thriller over the Cornhuskers in the 1984 Orange Bowl, securing UM's first national championship. If there's a game you want us to re-visit, please feel free to include your request in the comments below.
It was only five years earlier when a gruff, pipe-smoking football coach did the unthinkable – take a step down in ranks from NFL football to the college game and accept the challenge of turning around a moribund collegiate football program that lingered near the bottom of college football in attendance and had become a laughing stock of the sport.