Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The 1987 Fiesta Bowl was a college football bowl game that served as the final game of the 1986 NCAA Division I-A football season. The game was the 16th edition of the Fiesta Bowl, played annually since 1971 at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona.This particular Fiesta Bowl was played on January 2, 1987 and pitted the #1 Miami Hurricanes against the #2 Penn State Nittany Lions. Since the game would determine the college football national champion for the 1986 season, the organizers of the Fiesta Bowl — which, since it established itself as a January bowl, had been played in the afternoon — decided to move the game back from New Year's Day to January 2 and play it in the early evening (Arizona time) so it could be carried in primetime in the Eastern and Central time zones by NBC, the Fiesta Bowl's then-television carrier.The 1987 Fiesta Bowl drew a 25.1 rating for NBC, which the bowl organizers claimed was a record for any college football game; the 1980 Rose Bowl, which NBC also aired, drew a 28.6 rating but was seen in fewer homes than the Fiesta Bowl, which was viewed in 21.9 million versus the 21.8 million the Rose Bowl had been viewed in."@en }
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- 1987_Fiesta_Bowl abstract "The 1987 Fiesta Bowl was a college football bowl game that served as the final game of the 1986 NCAA Division I-A football season. The game was the 16th edition of the Fiesta Bowl, played annually since 1971 at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona.This particular Fiesta Bowl was played on January 2, 1987 and pitted the #1 Miami Hurricanes against the #2 Penn State Nittany Lions. Since the game would determine the college football national champion for the 1986 season, the organizers of the Fiesta Bowl — which, since it established itself as a January bowl, had been played in the afternoon — decided to move the game back from New Year's Day to January 2 and play it in the early evening (Arizona time) so it could be carried in primetime in the Eastern and Central time zones by NBC, the Fiesta Bowl's then-television carrier.The 1987 Fiesta Bowl drew a 25.1 rating for NBC, which the bowl organizers claimed was a record for any college football game; the 1980 Rose Bowl, which NBC also aired, drew a 28.6 rating but was seen in fewer homes than the Fiesta Bowl, which was viewed in 21.9 million versus the 21.8 million the Rose Bowl had been viewed in.".
- Q4583680 abstract "The 1987 Fiesta Bowl was a college football bowl game that served as the final game of the 1986 NCAA Division I-A football season. The game was the 16th edition of the Fiesta Bowl, played annually since 1971 at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona.This particular Fiesta Bowl was played on January 2, 1987 and pitted the #1 Miami Hurricanes against the #2 Penn State Nittany Lions. Since the game would determine the college football national champion for the 1986 season, the organizers of the Fiesta Bowl — which, since it established itself as a January bowl, had been played in the afternoon — decided to move the game back from New Year's Day to January 2 and play it in the early evening (Arizona time) so it could be carried in primetime in the Eastern and Central time zones by NBC, the Fiesta Bowl's then-television carrier.The 1987 Fiesta Bowl drew a 25.1 rating for NBC, which the bowl organizers claimed was a record for any college football game; the 1980 Rose Bowl, which NBC also aired, drew a 28.6 rating but was seen in fewer homes than the Fiesta Bowl, which was viewed in 21.9 million versus the 21.8 million the Rose Bowl had been viewed in.".