>The 1989 Championship game was the first to be broadcast nationally on
 ESPN.
 
I beg to differ.
 
I can't remember what year it was, but I seem to recall watching the
NCAA championship game when Bowling Green won it all.  That was in the
early-to-mid eighties, and I was in South Carolina at the time, so I'm
positive it was on ESPN.
 
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