Miami might have hammered Nebraska on the football field, but the Hurricanes barely squeaked by the Cornhuskers in the classroom.
According to graduation rates reported to the NCAA, of the football players who first enrolled at the University of Miami during the 1994-95 season, 57 percent graduated. Just 50 percent of the football players who started at Nebraska that same year graduated.
That 1994-95 group is the most recent class for which the NCAA has graduation rates, since that governing body allows six years for student-athletes to graduate.
Miami a 37-14 winner over Nebraska in Thursday's Rose Bowl has a much worse four-class average, however: 41 percent. NU's four-class average ending with the 1994-95 class is 53 percent.
Some administrators consider the four-class average to be a more accurate indicator of graduation trends.
Miami's graduation report for last year, for example, shows a 46-percent graduation rate for the football players who first enrolled for the 1993-94 school year. Of NU's 1993-94 freshmen, 57 percent graduated.
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