Penn State ranks No. 1 in "Academic Bowl"

The Penn State football program ranked atop the nation's Top 25 teams in academics, according to a story on TIME.com that cites a New America Foundation study.

In his long tenure at the helm of the football program before he was fired Nov. 9, former coach Joe Paterno preached his "Grand Experiment," which consisted of success in the classroom as well as on the football field. Penn State, the NAF analysis says, graduates 80 percent of its student-athletes in six years or less and shows no disparity between the accomplishments of its white and African-American football players.

The story on TIME.com has a list of how the Top 25 teams rank in the "academic bowl."

--Jake Kaplan