Study: Many Bowl Teams Fail to Make the Grade
ORLANDO, Fla.
College football teams playing in this season’s bowl games may be high scorers on the field, but a new study reveals the opposite may be true off the field, particularly when it comes to graduation rates.
The study, “Keeping Score When It Counts: Graduation Rates for 2002-03 Bowl-bound College Football Teams,” was released last month by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida. The study, which analyzed graduation rates for 55 college and university teams playing in 28 bowl games, compared graduation rates for all student-athletes to football student-athletes and African American football student-athletes in particular.
