Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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UNDER THE DOME Notre Dame Wins Eighth Straight National Title In GSR The cap-and-gown dynasty at Notre Dame each May on graduation day continued Oct. 29 when the Fighting Irish were atop the 2014 NCAA Gradu- ation Success Rate (GSR) figure for all its student-athletes for the eighth straight year among football-playing institutions in the Football Bowl Sub- division (FBS). Based on the 2014 GSR numbers from the NCAA, Notre Dame graduated 99 percent of its student-athletes based on entering classes from 2004-07. The NCAA first presented this award in 2005. A record-tying 20 of 22 Irish athletic programs analyzed posted GSR fig- ures of 100 percent. For the sixth year in a row, Notre Dame led the nation in four GSR categories: all student-athletes (99), male student-athletes (98), female student-athletes (100) and black student-athletes (96). Here is the 2004-07 GSR data for student-athletes, plus the fourth-place finish in football (numbers are percentages). All Student-Athletes 1. Notre Dame, 99 2. Stanford, 98 3. Duke, 97 4. Northwestern, 96 5. (tie) Boston College and Central Florida, 95 7. Wake Forest, 94 8. (tie) Miami (Fla.) and Rice, 92 10. (tie) Alabama and Clemson , 91 Male Student-Athletes 1. (tie) Notre Dame and Stanford, 98 3. (tie) Duke and Northwestern, 95 5. Boston College, 93 6. (tie) Central Florida and Wake Forest, 92 8. (tie) Rice, U.S. Air Force Academy and U.S. Military Academy, 89 Female Student-Athletes 1. Notre Dame, 100 2. Duke, 99 3. (tie) Boston College, Central Florida, North- western, Rice, Vanderbilt and Wake Forest, 98 9. (tie) Clemson, Stanford and Virginia Tech, 97 Black Student-Athletes 1. (tie) Notre Dame and Duke, 96 3. Stanford, 95 4. (tie) Rice and U.S. Air Force Academy, 93 6. (tie) Central Florida and Northwestern, 90 8. (tie) Miami (Fla.), Penn State and Utah State, 89 Football Student-Athletes 1. Stanford, 99 2. Northwestern, 97 3. Rice, 95 4. Notre Dame, 94 5. U.S. Air Force Academy, 93 6. (tie) Boston College and Duke, 92 8. Northern Illinois, 91 9. Wake Forest, 90 10. (tie) UCLA and U.S. Military Academy, 88 Note: Federal graduation rates are different from GSR rates.