Nearly Three-Fourths of Bowl-Bound Football Teams Meet NCAA's Academic Standards

Nearly three of every four football teams invited to play in bowl games this season met the NCAA's academic-progress requirements, a marked improvement over the past two years, according to an annual report released on Monday by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida.

The report, "Keeping Score When It Counts: Assessing the 2007-8 Bowl-Bound College Football Teams," said that 73 percent of the 64 bowl-bound teams were keeping their

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