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The 1987 Miami Hurricanes football team represented the University of Miami during the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season. It was the Hurricanes' 62nd season of football. The Hurricanes were led by fourth-year head coach Jimmy Johnson and played their home games at the Orange Bowl. They finished the season 12–0 overall.
The 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with Miami winning its second national championship of the 1980s in an Orange Bowl game featuring a rare No. 1 vs. No. 2 matchup between the top ranked Oklahoma Sooners and the Hurricanes. Miami's first three games were against ranked opponents in what was labeled a rebuilding year.
It’s college football bowl game that served as the final game of the 1986 NCAA Division I-A football season. Part of the NCAA football bowl 1986–87 game season, the 1987 Fiesta Bowl also served as the NCAA National Championship Game. It pitted the No. 1 ranked Miami Hurricanes against the No. 2 Penn State Nittany Lions.
The Miami Hurricanes football team represents the University of Miami in college football. The program began in 1926. Decades later, in the 1980s, the program emerged as an NCAA Division I national powerhouse, winning five AP national championships in 1983, 1987, 1989, 1991, and 2001. [1] The program also has become a major source for NFL talent.
The 1987–88 NCAA football bowl games concluded the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season, featuring 18 games. Twenty ranked teams participated, and seven of the eighteen matchups were between two ranked teams. [1] The Miami Hurricanes were declared the national champions, after upsetting #1 Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl. [2] [3]
Blades played a big part in the University of Miami's winning the 1987 NCAA National Championship. He also won the Jim Thorpe Award in that year and, in 2006, was named to the College Football Hall of Fame for his play with the Miami Hurricanes. He shares the University of Miami single season interception record with fellow Miami Hurricane Sean ...
One was an integral part of the University of Miami’s last national championship in 2001. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways ...
George Mira Jr. (born c. 1965) is a former All-American linebacker for the University of Miami Hurricanes football team during the mid-1980s, ... 1986 and 1987, ...