Penn State vs. Miami, 1987 Fiesta Bowl - 4th Quarter

NBC's Charlie Jones emphasizes Miami can be content to run some time down, with a 10-7 lead and less than 9 minutes remaining. Testaverde disagrees, and immediately forces his second interception of the quarter, leading to Penn State's winning touchdown.

At one point an NBC graphic lists Miami's miscues. Meanwhile, the graphic misspelled penalties as penalities.

This video includes every play of the 4th quarter but I had to edit it tight to manage a 10 minute window, very little room for replays. The video entitled, "Miami's final possession vs. Penn State, 1987 Fiesta Bowl" obviously has considerably more detail.

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[DCabsolutjohn]

@madcane19 - not so fast dude.  Penn State's linebackers and secondary harassed the WR's from Miami all night. Watch how hard they get hit on EVERY play, and how many passes were dropped all game - notably how many were caught THEN dropped!!! They were scared stiff by the 2nd quarter, and had Vinny T thoroughly confused by the 3rd.

[mujinnokoya]

Penn State's defense got good penetration.

[demigod2324]

@JRFrancisco20088 so good they lost to a better team huh?

[KWCline91]

This was the most watched college football game and yet it was an ugly game evn though it was exciting at the end

[2Phaktor]

@madcane19 Miami is lucky they are in that weak ACC conference. Even with minimum scholarships, they are in a hotbed of talent, so they will be competitive. The names dropped by that snitch from the jail jeopardizes everything for that program and the AD will be forced to sanction the program before the NCAA applies punishment. You have to admit, that program was built on a culture of payoffs to players...I am still astounded by that 2001 team where pretty much everyone was a high draft pick.

[madcane19]

@2Phaktor and just when i was excited as heck about Al Golden kickin azz and cleaning house and feeling confident of him leading us back to where we once were....... this new crap happens from the old staff. I pray Al stays and brings us back because I truley believe he's awesome and doesn't take no grief and makes kids earn their spots no matter who they are.

[2Phaktor]

@madcane19 However, the Miami offense was so good, it had all of those TO's and was still in a position to win.

[2Phaktor]

@madcane19 I understand your argument, but it was apparent that Penn State was content to give up yards to Miami as long as there were NO big plays. The key was to make Miami drive the ball down the field and the longer Testeverde had the ball, the more likely he will get impatient and force the ball into coverage. Look at all of the passes that he threw that were 10-15 yards down field; the receiver was surrounded by at least 3 defenders. They called no screens and PSU was up field all night.

[madcane19]

Miami dominated this game with 15 more 1st downs, 450 yrds to Penn St.'s 160, and time of poss.

Miami ran and passed at will. This game would have been a blow out.

The only reason it was close was because of the 5 interceptions and the 9 penalties ( a few were BS calls by the way )

Penn State got a gift !!

But thats why they play the game and Miami has to live with it

[ambigroove]

IF bubba mcdowel would have taken a risk and made a B-line right for penn states kicker they might have won.