A survey of 22 major college football...

A survey of 22 major college football programs in the South has found a 42% drop from last year in the number of freshman who failed to qualify academically.

The survey by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution found that only 30 of 505 incoming freshman football players failed to meet the NCAA’s Proposition 48 academic rule. Last year, 52 of 539 signees at the same schools failed to qualify.

In order to play as a freshman under Prop. 48, a signee must have a high school grade point average of 2.0 in a core curriculum of 11 academic courses and score a minimum of 700 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test or 15 on the American College Test.