Time Magazine Ranks Temple Football Seventh Academically in CFP Top-25

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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 prosas 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

Northwestern113Notre Dame28Stanford36Clemson41TCU511Alabama62Temple724Florida State89Michigan914LSU1020Baylor1117Ole Miss1212Utah1322Florida1419Oklahoma154Houston1618Tennessee1723Ohio State187Iowa195Oklahoma State2016Oregon2115Michigan State223USC2325North Carolina2410Navy DQ*21

Source: http://www.owlsports.com/news/2015/12/18/FB_1218155137.aspx