Hurricanes' fans brought to a boil over BCS, Florida State.(The Dallas Morning News)

CORAL GABLES, Fla. _ On the outside, it's hard to detect much of a pulse around the little, barbershop-style store on the edge of the University of Miami campus.

Inside, however, beats the pulse of everything and anything Hurricane.

Videos from Miami's 1980s and `90s dynasty play on monitors around the store. Orange and green colors wash the walls from floor to ceiling, much the way green and blue meet on an ocean-and-sky canvas only a couple miles away.

Even on a quiet afternoon, when the most die-hard of UM fans have escaped to New Orleans to watch their second-ranked Hurricanes play Florida in the Sugar Bowl, patrons stroll in and out of the little shop steadily. Their purpose is to feel close to their team and to replenish their supply of jerseys, bobbing-head dolls, green-and-orange pasta and most any other necessity in those colors.

Across town, the bowl game that Hurricanes fans had been anxiously awaiting since September is about to take place. And they feign disinterest.

"I'm so mad about the Orange Bowl, I don't want to see or hear a word of it," said Angelique Joaqin, who wears her colors in her hair _ green and orange curls swooping from head to shoulder.

"It's just so wrong. We are boycotting it. And don't even bring up this BCS thing."