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1978 Miami Hurricanes football team

season of football team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ28448134 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1978 Miami Hurricanes football team represented the University of Miami as an independent during the 1978 NCAA Division I-A football season. Led by Lou Saban in his second and final year as head coach, the Hurricanes played their home games at the Miami Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida. Miami finished the season with a record of 6–5.

Editorial summary

“1978 Miami Hurricanes football team” enters the record as season of football team. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Miami, Hurricanes and football can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1978—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Miami, Hurricanes and football.
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“1978 Miami Hurricanes football team” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Miami, Hurricanes and football provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28448134. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1978.

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This entry incorporates text from “1978 Miami Hurricanes football team” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.