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Eleven Michigan State football players receive Big Ten’s Distinguished Scholar Award

Eleven Michigan State football players receive Big Ten’s Distinguished Scholar Award

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Eleven Michigan State football players were honored on Thursday for their scholarly achievements and named to the list of Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Award recipients for 2020-21.

From the Big Ten’s website:

Big Ten Faculty Representatives established the Distinguished Scholar Award in 2008 to supplement the Academic All-Big Ten program. Distinguished Scholar Award recipients must have earned Academic All-Big Ten honors in the previous academic year, must have been enrolled full time at the institution for the entire previous academic year (two semesters or three quarters) and earned a minimum GPA of 3.70 or better during the previous academic year, excluding any summer grades. The Academic All-Big Ten threshold is a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher for a student’s academic career.

You can see the list below, which was Tweeted out by Matt Wenzel of MLive:

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Five Ohio State football players selected as Big Ten Distinguished Scholars

Ohio State had five football players honored as Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Athletes Wednesday.

Five members of the Ohio State football team have been recognized as prestigious Big Ten Distinguished Scholars. TE Luke Farrell, WR C.J. Saunders, DL Zaid Hamdan, LB Ben Schmiesing and SAF Ryan Batsch all received the honor. Student-athletes must maintain at least a 3.70 grade point average for the school year to qualify. All five players are first-time honorees.

But that’s not all. Farrell and Schmiesing were among 13 football players in the entire Big Ten to maintain a perfect 4.0 grade point average for the 2019-20 academic year. In addition, Ohio State led the conference in the total number of Big Ten Distinguished Scholars with a whopping 164, surpassing the 131 from last academic year. OSU has led the conference now for five-straight years.

And yet, uneducated folks around the country rail on Ohio State’s academics.

Here are some notes about each of the five players provided in a release by the university.

Next … The five honorees

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