A USA Today special report into athetes’ majors showed clustering in certain majors “without the academic demands most students face.” A chart of the Top 25 football teams in 2007 showed 57.9 percent of USC’s juniors and seniors (22 of 38) majored in sociology.
The only top 25 schools with more football players in a certain major were Michigan (75.6 percent in general studies) and Virginia Tech (63.3 percent in apparel, housing and resource management).
Outside the top 25, Georgia Tech had 81.8 percent major in management while UCLA had 50 percent major in history.