12-28-2012, 08:07 PM
As they've said before, it's impossible to find quantitative data anymore, because the universities complained, and the NCAA stopped publishing it.
If you're willing to accept that the requirements did not change too much under Harbaugh (which is far from assured), then it'd be easy to prove Stanford's standards.
- In 1997 Stanford had the highest SAT average for football players in the nation
- From the late 90's to the mid 2000's, the average SAT went even further up (I think, averaged with basketball players)
SATs
Stanford: 1176
UCLA: 990
Cal: 984
Ore: 969
Wash: 963
U.SC: 955
Ariz: 948
Ariz St: 937
Ore St: 928
Wash St: 920
GPAs
Stanford: 3.63
UCLA: 3.15
Oregon: 2.94
Cal: 2.93
Wash: 2.86
Ore St: 2.84
U.SC: 2.80
Wash St: 2.80
Ariz: 2.76
Ariz St: 2.76
If you're willing to accept that the requirements did not change too much under Harbaugh (which is far from assured), then it'd be easy to prove Stanford's standards.
- In 1997 Stanford had the highest SAT average for football players in the nation
| Stanford | 1,051 |
| Northwestern | 1,037 |
| Duke | 1,012 |
| Vanderbilt | 974 |
| Rice | 969 |
- From the late 90's to the mid 2000's, the average SAT went even further up (I think, averaged with basketball players)
SATs
Stanford: 1176
UCLA: 990
Cal: 984
Ore: 969
Wash: 963
U.SC: 955
Ariz: 948
Ariz St: 937
Ore St: 928
Wash St: 920
GPAs
Stanford: 3.63
UCLA: 3.15
Oregon: 2.94
Cal: 2.93
Wash: 2.86
Ore St: 2.84
U.SC: 2.80
Wash St: 2.80
Ariz: 2.76
Ariz St: 2.76