This year's bowl-bound college football teams are struggling to meet the NCAA's new academic standards, with 41 percent falling below minimum requirements and almost half lacking a 50 percent graduation rate, according to a survey released Monday.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/bowls05/n ... id=2248992
This isn't the case in the Magnolia League, where real college football still reigns:
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Graduation Rates
www.ncaa.org/grad_rates/2004/d1/index.html
Army Not reported
Baylor 88%
Citadel 94%
Delaware 70%
Duke 100%
Furman 81%
Navy Not reported
Rice 92%
Richmond 94%
SMU 61%
TCU 71%
Tulane 74%
Vanderbilt 90%
Villanova 89%
Wake Forest 94%
William & Mary 100%[/url]