Miami Hurricanes Football

The University of Miami Hurricanes football team is a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference and one of the preeminent programs in all of college football. Miami has won five national championships (1983, 1987, 1989, 1991 and 2001), all of which have come since 1983, making it the most successful college football program of the past 25 years.

Ring of Honor

In 1997, the university established the 'Ring of Honor' as a way to honor outstanding players who have passed through the Hurricane football program. Players are added on a regular basis, by either decade or position played. Their names, as well as their numbers, are then permanently affixed for display on the face of the Orange Bowl's upper deck.

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The inaugural class of 1997 included Jim Dooley, Ted Hendricks, George Mira, and Vinny Testaverde. These four players are the only ones in the history of the program to have their numbers retired by the university (on the basis that if the number of every great Miami player were retired, there would not be enough numbers left to issue to current players).

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A second group of players were inducted in 1999: Otis Anderson, Don Bosseler, Bernie Kosar, and Burgess Owens. No players have been inducted since, though the Ring of Honor remains an active tradition.

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