The University of Iowa football team - which is currently preparing to play Texas on Dec. 30 in the 2006 Alamo Bowl in San Antonio - has the ninth best graduation rate for student-athletes in the sport of football among the 64* schools that will be represented in the 32 bowl games to be played in the coming weeks.
Iowa has a graduation rate of 72 percent for the group of student-athletes who enrolled in the University of Iowa in the fall semester of 1999, according to information the University of Iowa provided the NCAA as required by NCAA Bylaw 30.1 and the Federal Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security Act.
Bowl-Bound Hawkeyes rank high in graduation rate