As stated in a few other post in this thread, In normal situations, a team would have to be consistently good/great to be considered for the most hated team (i.e. 90's Bulls, present day Patriots, etc..) However, that just shows how much people hate Miami. We have not even warranted the hate, due to our irrelevance on the national scene over the last 15 years, but yet, we are still the most hated CFB team in America, and I love it!
Alabama belongs in the same category as the Bulls and the Patriots because the hate for them, is but for a short while, basically while they are on top. Miami is more like the Yankees. Regardless of the fact that we are not on the top, people still want to be us, change their programs in efforts to look like us, and will go out there way to display their hate for us.