The 1983 Miami Hurricanes football team represented the

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during the 1983 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their 58th season of football, the

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Hurricanes were led by fifth-year head coach Howard Schnellenberger and played their home games at the

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. Unranked, Miami lost their opener at

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by 25 points, but finished the regular season ranked fifth, and were invited to the

. Playing at home on January 2, the underdog Hurricanes upset top-ranked

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denying a two-point conversion attempt with less than a minute They climbed to first in the major polls to win the school's first

Schedule

Game summaries

At Florida

At Houston

Purdue

Notre Dame

At Duke

Louisville

At Mississippi State

At Cincinnati

West Virginia

East Carolina

At Florida State

Jeff Davis game-winning 19-yard field goal as time expired

Orange Bowl (vs Nebraska)

*Source: Box Score

Personnel

Awards and honors

All-Americans

* Jay Brophy, LB * Glenn Dennison, TE

Jack Harding University of Miami MVP Award

* Glenn Dennison, TE

References

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