Football and menâ??s basketball players on the nationâ??s big-time college teams averaged hundreds of points lower on their SATs than their classmates, and some of the gaps are so large they call into question the lengths to which schools will go to win.
The biggest gap between football players and students as a whole occurred at the University of Florida, where players scored 346 points lower than the schoolâ??s overall student body. Thatâ??s larger than the difference in scores between typical students at the University of Georgia and Harvard University.