Miami football has never played these FBS teams

The Miami football program has played 96 out of the 133 Football Bowl Subdivision teams that will participate in the 2023 season. Illinois and Minnesota of the Big 10, Iowa State of the Big XII and Oregon State, Stanford and Utah are the only Power Five conference teams Miami has never played.

Several of the other 31 teams that the Miami football team has not played in their history have recently moved up to become FBS programs. Miami has played 119 major programs in its history. Some of those programs have dropped to FCS or below. Other programs have eliminated football. Miami began playing football in 1926.

Miami defeated Rollins College 7-0 in the Hurricanes’ inaugural game. The Hurricanes finished the 1926 season 8-0 with wins over Florida Southern, Mercer, Stetson, Havana home and away, Loyola (New Orleans) and Howard (now Samford). Mercer, Stetson and Samford are currently FCS programs.

Some of the programs on the list are surprising. Miami has played the natural rival for all six of the Power Five programs they have yet to play. Central Michigan, Miami (Ohio) Northern Illinois and Toledo are the only teams from the Mid-America conference that Miami has played. The MAC has been in existence since 1946.

The other four Group of Five conferences are much younger than the MAC. Miami has played seven of the 11 teams that currently make up the Mountain West Conference. About half of the MWC teams were previously in the Western Athletic Conference which was founded in 1962 but no longer sponsors football.