Schools on both ends of the spectrum

clipped from www.usatoday.com  THE GOOD AND THE BAD Schools with the highest and lowest NCAA graduation success rates, tracking scholarship athletes who arrived from high school or transferred from other colleges from 1998 to 2001: The good in Division I 1. Alcorn State 99% Colgate 99% 3. Holy Cross 98% Notre Dame 98% Navy 98% The rest of the best in FBS (formerly I-A) Duke 97% Northwestern 97% Boston College 96% Stanford 95% Vanderbilt 94% The bad in Division I 1. Florida A&M 39% 2. Chicago State 40% Jackson State 40% 4. Savannah State 43% 5. Southern 44% The worst in FBS (fomerly I-A) San Jose State 52% Florida International 58% Fresno State 61% Louisiana-Monroe 61% Texas-El Paso 61% Source: NCAA

Top 25 Reshuffled- Who is winning on & off the field?

clipped from www.usatoday.com  RANKINGS IN THE CLASSROOM Reshuffling this week's USA TODAY coaches' football poll according to each program's graduation rate: Team (rank in poll) Grad rate 1. Vanderbilt (23) 91% 2. Wake Forest (19) 83% 3. Texas Tech (5) 79% 4. Penn State (3) 78% North Carolina (21) 78% 6. Virginia Tech (18) 75% 7. Ball State (25) 72% 8. Florida (7) 68% 9. TCU (24) 67% Bowl subdivision avg. 67% 10. Oklahoma State (10) 62% 11. Missouri (12) 59% 12. Utah (13) 57% 13. BYU (8) 56% South Florida (20) 56% 15. Alabama (2) 55% Boise State (16) 55% 17. Southern California (4) 54% LSU (14) 54% 19. Kansas (15) 53% 53% California (22) 53% 21. Ohio State (11) 52% 22. Michigan State (17) 51% 23. Texas (1) 50% 24. Georgia (9) 48% 25. Oklahoma (6) 46% * Average four-year graduation rates for players entering school from 1998-2001. Source: NCAA