Miami football: 5 most underrated players in Miami Hurricanes history

5. Miami football underrated players: Ken Dorsey

We start with someone who at one point got almost all the love but has been mostly forgotten as history went on. Ken Dorsey was the quarterback that led the Miami Hurricanes to the National Championship in Larry Coker’s first season as head coach. He was a first-team All American and went to the National Title Game two seasons in a row, going undefeated in his junior season.

How can this player be underrated? Well, Dorsey isn’t underrated in the sense of some of the others on the list, but his place in history is not where it should be. The Sporting News listed the best college quarterbacks in history and Dorsey was nowhere on the list. He didn’t even get an honorable mention.

Dorsey was starting games in his freshman year and ended his career with 9,565 yards and 88 touchdowns. The college accolades go a mile long. He was a three-time first-team All-Big East, the Co-MVP of the Rose Bowl when Miami beat Nebraska for the National Championship, a two-time Heisman Trophy finalist, two-time Offensive Player of the Year, and a Maxwell Award winner. Dorsey was literally one yard away from back to back undefeated seasons and National Championships, but an incomplete pass on 4th and goal in the 2003 Fiesta Bowl in double overtime sealed his fate.

Dorsey led the Hurricanes to 34 straight wins. No quarterback has even come close in the modern era. It’s the best winning streak since 1971. Florida State and Clemson are tied for the second-best streak since the year 2000, and they only got to 29 wins in a row. Dorsey deserves a ton of credit for what he did for Miami. He is up for a spot in the College Football Hall of Fame this year.  Even if he gets that, he’ll never get the recognition he truly deserves for what he did with the Hurricanes.