[Labyrinthos]

You forgot one about one of the big differences between northern and southern college football: At most schools in the north, a significant majority of football players graduate with a real college degree within six years with a major that is actually useful in landing a job when their football careers are over. In the south, most football players get into college with SAT/ACT scores that are barely above random guessing, few graduate with a degree within their lifetimes, and those who do graduate have useless majors like "communications" even though they can't speak or write a complete sentence using anything that resembles standard English.

[groanup]

You're right, I forgot. In the North they graduate with degrees of such brilliance as gender "studies". LOL.

[southernerwithanattitude]

You need to check out where a very large number of the players on those "northern" schools come from.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

You miss the entire point. This was posted as a joke. Don't go all serious about it, because I think every other SEC fan around here would agree that Big 10 football and its fans are every bit as dedicated as we are. To be trying to haul out graduation rates in Kinesiology tells me you didn't get the joke, or just don't have a sense of humor.

[OrangeDaisy]

What on earth does academic have to do with football? ;-)