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Notre Dame-Rutgers the only bowl with graduation rates higher than 85 percent

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The New Era Pinstripe Bowl matchup in between the University of Notre Dame and Rutgers will be the only publish-season university football game in which the two applications have graduation charges of much better than 85 %, according to an yearly survey.


Notre Dame, with a 94 percent price, and Rutgers, at 85 %, will meet Dec. 28 (Saturday) at Yankee Stadium. None of the other 34 bowl video games functions each teams with this kind of large graduation prices for football student-athletes.


The survey of the academic applications between college football gamers was performed by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports (TIDES) at the University of Central Florida.


TIDES noted that the gap amongst the graduation charges for African-American and white football players stays a concern. Nearly half of the bowl teams have a charge for African-American student-athletes at least twenty % lower than for their white counterparts.


At Notre Dame, nonetheless, the 97 percent graduation rate for African-Americans is actually 8 percentage factors higher than for white players. Rutgers graduates 88 percent, making the Pinstripe Bowl the only bowl in which both plans have African-American graduation costs of greater than 85 percent.


In the most recent NCAA report, Notre Dame posted a 99 % graduation fee for all pupil-athletes, the highest in the nation — and the highest for a seventh consecutive 12 months.


A year ago, Notre Dame grew to become the very first university to concurrently rank No. one in the graduation price of its football gamers and in the Bowl Championship Series standings.



Notre Dame-Rutgers the only bowl with graduation rates higher than 85 percent

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