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- Title
Ranking College Football Programs Based Upon Athletic Performance and Academic Success.
- Abstract
The NCAA has become increasingly concerned about the academic well-being of its student-athletes and has adopted a new measure to monitor the academic progress of each collegiate team that grants athletic scholarships. It is called the Academic Progress Rate (APR) and measures the extent to which a team’s student-athletes retain their eligibility and stay in school on a semester by semester basis. Lucas and Lovaglia (2005) believed that the ranking of collegiate teams based upon both academic success and athletic performance would be of value to numerous constituencies and developed such a ranking system for collegiate football teams. In this paper, we build upon their work by constructing a statistically based ranking system that utilizes a team’s multi-year APR and their Average Saragin Rating. During the 2007-2010 academic years that were investigated, the three top ranked teams were Ohio State, Boise State and the University of Florida. The results also revealed a moderate and positive correlation between a team’s multi-year APR and its Average Saragin Rating.
- Subjects
ACADEMIC achievement; ATHLETIC ability; COLLEGE athletes; FOOTBALL; MATHEMATICS; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; ATHLETIC associations; STATISTICAL models; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Sport Journal, 2014, p1
- ISSN
1543-9518
- Publication type
Article