Temple University Athletics
Time Magazine Ranks Temple Football Seventh Academically in CFP Top-25
12.18.15 | Football
PHILADELPHIA – Time Magazine recently ranked the teams in the College Football Playoff Top 25 by their academic achievement. Of the 25 teams, Temple ranked seventh overall.
Though the work of players, coaches, and the staff of the Nancy & Donald Resnick Academic Support Center for Student-Athletes, Temple football achieved a record grade-point average in spring of 2015. The current Temple football roster also includes 26 college graduates, second most among all 2015 bowl teams.
Time used rankings compiled by New America, beginning with each school's football graduation success rate (GSR). The GSR is an NCAA mandated number that schools granting aid to student-athletes are required to report. The GSR, unlike the federal graduation rate, doesn't penalize schools for having players who transfer or leave for the pros–as long as those players depart in good academic standing. Schools drop in the rankings if they graduate football players at different rates than their overall male student body.
#24 Temple will play Toledo in the Marmot Boca Raton Bowl on Tuesday, December 22 at 7:00 p.m. on ESPN.
Time Magazine Academic Top 25
Though the work of players, coaches, and the staff of the Nancy & Donald Resnick Academic Support Center for Student-Athletes, Temple football achieved a record grade-point average in spring of 2015. The current Temple football roster also includes 26 college graduates, second most among all 2015 bowl teams.
Time used rankings compiled by New America, beginning with each school's football graduation success rate (GSR). The GSR is an NCAA mandated number that schools granting aid to student-athletes are required to report. The GSR, unlike the federal graduation rate, doesn't penalize schools for having players who transfer or leave for the pros–as long as those players depart in good academic standing. Schools drop in the rankings if they graduate football players at different rates than their overall male student body.
#24 Temple will play Toledo in the Marmot Boca Raton Bowl on Tuesday, December 22 at 7:00 p.m. on ESPN.
Time Magazine Academic Top 25
| Northwestern | 1 | 13 |
| Notre Dame | 2 | 8 |
| Stanford | 3 | 6 |
| Clemson | 4 | 1 |
| TCU | 5 | 11 |
| Alabama | 6 | 2 |
| Temple | 7 | 24 |
| Florida State | 8 | 9 |
| Michigan | 9 | 14 |
| LSU | 10 | 20 |
| Baylor | 11 | 17 |
| Ole Miss | 12 | 12 |
| Utah | 13 | 22 |
| Florida | 14 | 19 |
| Oklahoma | 15 | 4 |
| Houston | 16 | 18 |
| Tennessee | 17 | 23 |
| Ohio State | 18 | 7 |
| Iowa | 19 | 5 |
| Oklahoma State | 20 | 16 |
| Oregon | 21 | 15 |
| Michigan State | 22 | 3 |
| USC | 23 | 25 |
| North Carolina | 24 | 10 |
| Navy | DQ* | 21 |
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