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However, the graduation rates established by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) showed poor results, for example they reported that among students who entered college between 1993 and 1996 only 51 percent of football players graduated within 6 years and 41 percent of basketball players.
Passer rating is calculated using a player's passing attempts, completions, yards, touchdowns, and interceptions. Passer rating in the NFL is on a scale from 0 to 158.3. Passing efficiency in college football is on a scale from −731.6 to 1261.6. Since 1973, passer rating has been the official formula used by the NFL to determine its passing ...
The list of college football yearly passing and total offense leaders identifies the major college passing leaders for each season from 1937 to the present. It includes yearly leaders in three statistical categories: (1) passing yardage ; (2) passing touchdowns ; and (3) passer rating .
The chart below shows us how much college football players might be worth at the top programs if they were able to play in a free market system and receive compensation in a manner similar to that ...
This chart shows how much money the average Division 1-A school makes in various sports, according to data obtained from the Department of Education.
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- A professor at Ohio State recently joined the apology parade so tragically common these days in academia. His offense was having expressed a positive view of college ...
Due to the increasing popularity of college sports because of television and media coverage, some players on college sports teams are receiving compensation from sources other than the NCAA. [32] For instance, CBS paid around $800 million for broadcasting rights to a three-week 2014 men's basketball tournament. [32]
The Virginia school even hosted ESPN’s flagship college football broadcast, GameDay, for an earlier contest. But those wins haven’t come cheap. More than half of the $30 million that James Madison spent on football from 2010 to 2014 came from student fees, according to annual filings with the NCAA.