Football season may have wrapped up, but for the second yearUT Federal Credit Union has partnered with Visa and the NFL tohelp University of Tennessee Upward Bound students score atouchdown for their financial future.

Through the partnership, the Knoxville, Tenn.-based credit unionwill teach Financial Football, a free online money managementprogram that tests students' speed, agility and endurance in thefield of money management. 

The football game involves a head-to-head matchup orstudents can choose the single player format. Classroom modulesallow teachers to use the game in theirfinancial education classes, too.

“It's not whether you win or lose, it's what you learn when youplay,” said Malinda Wood, vice president of marketing at the over$195 million credit union. “This is our second year to work withabout 60 students in the Upward Bound program at UTK.”

Wood and Teri Branam, business development manager at UTFCU,serve as Financial Football coaches.

Available onlineat http://www.practicalmoneyskills.com/games/trainingcamp/,the game has NFL teams square off on a football field. To move theball forward, questions ranging from how to calculate a percent-offand the definition of blue chip stock to how to save for collegeand the ins and outs of 529s must be answered correctly to score atouchdown. Players lose yardage for every question wrong.

Upward Bound is a pre-college program for students who have theability to complete a program of post-secondary education, but whomay not achieve that ambition because of constraints imposed byfamily income levels and the lack of knowledge about the collegeadmissions process.