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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
Northwestern113
Notre Dame28
Stanford36
Clemson41
TCU511
Alabama62
Temple724
Florida State89
Michigan914
LSU1020
Baylor1117
Ole Miss1212
Utah1322
Florida1419
Oklahoma154
Houston1618
Tennessee1723
Ohio State187
Iowa195
Oklahoma State2016
Oregon2115
Michigan State223
USC2325
North Carolina2410
Navy     DQ*21
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