The Miami Hurricanes football group represents the University of Miami inside the sport of American football. The Hurricanes compete inside the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)'s Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) as well as the Coastal Division of your Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). The program began in 1926 and has won 5 AP national championships (1983, 1987, 1989, 1991, 2001). Miami is ranked fourth around the list of All-time Related Press National Poll Championships, tied with Southern California and Ohio State and behind Alabama, Notre Dame, and Oklahoma.