Football BCS Rankings, if Academics Mattered
The college football Bowl Championship Series rankings have been announced, but what would the list look like ranked instead by the teams’ academic achievement? The New America Foundation’s Education Policy Program today released its sixth annual BCS Academic Bowl rankings aiming to show just that.
The rankings use information collected by the NCAA — federal graduation rates and academic progress — to track educational success, not in-game performance. New America’s BCS Academic Bowl looks at data from the top 25 teams in the Bowl Championship Series’ final standings to rank their academic prowess.
New America’s analysis found:
