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For the second year in a row it was No.1 vs No.2 in a bowl game this time the Orange Bowl.

Final AP Top 20

Bowl Games with Top 20 Teams

Div. 1âA Conference Champs

Heisman Trophy Voting

Other Major Award Winners

Consensus All-America Team

Miami, the upset loser to Penn State in the championship game a year ago, returned as the underdog. Oklahoma was the favorite and had a 17â7 victory over former No.1 Nebraska to merit such support. But this was also the third meeting between the Hurricanes and Sooners in three years and the Canes had won the first two.

In a driving rain New Year’s Night, Miami made it three in a row, surprising the Sooners 20â14 for their second national title in five years.

But the game of the year was the Miami-Florida State thriller in Tallahassee Oct.3. In that one, the Canes rallied from a 19â3 deficit late in the third quarter to overtake the Seminoles, 26â19, then held on as FSU scored in the last minute and missed a two-point conversion try.

It was the only game Florida State lost all year and when the final polls came out Miami and FSU were ranked 1â2, a first for two teams from the same state.

In February, the NCAA cancelled Southern Methodist’s football season citing repeated rules violations. Other sanctions led SMU to forgo its ‘88 season as well as saying it couldn’t be competitive.

And Columbia set a new NCAA Division 1 record for futility as its five-year losing streak reached 41 and counting. The old losing streak low water mark had been 34, set by Northwestern (1979â82).

Football: Year by Year

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1986 College Football Recap

  • 1986 College Football Recap

TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about.

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  • Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs?
  • The Twelve Dancing Princesses
  • Current Events This Week: January 2023
  • African Americans by the Numbers
  • Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents
  • The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales