2012 Academic Progress Reports
What are the schools doing in class?
It gets easily forgotten, but this is college football. Of course, college football is nothing more than a glorified minor league, but the guys still have to go to class and at least pretend to try.
Welcome to the Academic Progress Reports, better known as the APR, taking a look at the classes from 2006-2007 to 2010-2011. Every Division I sports team calculates its APR each academic year, based on the eligibility, retention and graduation of each scholarship student-athlete.
Programs that score below 925 (this is the Mendoza line ... if you can't hit this, you're just not trying) on their four-year rate and can lose up to 10 percent of their scholarships through immediate penalties.
Programs that dip below 900 - there weren't any this
year - face additional
sanctions and can also face historically based penalties for poor academic performance over time.
Below are the rankings for the FBS teams based on
their APR and with our scoring for how they graded
out. We categorized the teams into ten categories.
If a program was in the 90-100% range, it gets a 10
(for our Program Rankings to come out later this
summer), while a program that finished in the 1-10%
range gets a 1.
10 is obviously amazing, anything 7 or above is fantastic, and 4 or below is miserable.
Past APRs 2011 |
2010
|
2009
10 – an APR of 90-to-100%
“Old lady had her tested once.
They said her I.Q.
was way up there. ..
around 200 or some such (bleep).
That girl could do just about
anything she put her mind to."
1
Northwestern
995
2
Boise State
989
2
Duke
989
4
Ohio State
988
5
Northern Illinois
987
6
Rice
986
7
Clemson
983
7
Middle Tennessee
983
9
Rutgers
982
10
Air Force
980
10
Miami
980
9 – an APR of 80-to-90%
“Hi, Gilbert. I'm a nerd too. I just found that out tonight. We have news for the beautiful people. There's a lot more of us than there are of you."
12
Vanderbilt
978
13
Boston College
977
13
Stanford
977
15
Wisconsin
975
16
Georgia Tech
974
16
UCF
974
18
Navy
973
18
TCU
973
18
Wake Forest
973
21
Florida
972
21
Missouri
972
23
Kansas
971
23
Penn State
971
25
Oklahoma
970
8 – an APR of 70-to-80%
“Moles and trolls, moles and trolls, work, work, work, work, work. We never see the light of day. We plan this thing for weeks and all they want to do is study. I'm disgusted."
25
Alabama
970
25
Army
970
25
Georgia
970
25
Notre Dame
970
30
Virginia Tech
968
31
Miami Univ.
967
31
Tulane
967
33
Nebraska
966
33
South Carolina
966
33
Utah
966
36
Indiana
964
36
LSU
964
38
Connecticut
963
38
South Florida
963
7 – an APR of 60-to-70%
“Oh I get it, it's very clever. How's that working out for you? Being clever."
40
Toledo
960
41
Mississippi State
959
41
San Jose State
959
41
Temple
959
41
Utah State
959
45
Baylor
956
45
UCLA
956
47
Oregon State
955
47
Pittsburgh
955
49
Colorado State
954
49
Western Michigan
954
51
Illinois
953
51
UAB
953
6 – an APR of 50-to-60%
"My mocabulary isn't inept enough to even define
what 'it' is."
51
West Virginia
953
54
East Carolina
952
55
Arizona
951
55
Bowling Green
951
55
Hawaii
951
55
Kentucky
951
55
Marshall
951
55
Western Kentucky
951
61
Purdue
950
61
Syracuse
950
63
Iowa
949
63
Nevada
949
63
Ohio
949
63
San Diego State
949
63
Washington
949
68
Fresno State
948
5 – an APR of 40-to-50%
"Today ... on First Take."
68
Arkansas State
948
68
Louisiana Lafayette
948
68
Oregon
948
72
UNLV
947
72
USC
947
74
Ball State
946
74
Louisiana Tech
946
74
Texas A&M
946
74
Texas Tech
946
78
Virginia
944
79
Kansas State
943
79
Michigan
943
79
North Carolina
943
4 – an APR of 30-to-40%
"Facebook at $38? Get in NOW!"
79
Auburn
943
79
Michigan State
943
79
New Mexico
943
85
Central Michigan
941
85
SMU
941
87
Cincinnati
939
88
Colorado
938
88
Iowa State
938
88
North Texas
938
91
Arizona State
937
91
Florida State
937
91
Texas
937
94
Arkansas
936
3 – an APR of 20-to-30%
"As in Helsinki, Sweden."
94
California
936
94
Wyoming
936
97
Eastern Michigan
935
97
Kent State
935
99
Florida International
934
99
Idaho
934
101
Akron
933
101
Ole Miss
933
101
Washington State
933
104
BYU
932
104
Memphis
932
104
Minnesota
932
107
Maryland
931
107
NC State
931
107
Tennessee
931
2 – an APR of 10-to-20%
“Next, on the Real Housewives of ..."
110
Florida Atlantic
930
110
Southern Miss
930
110
Troy
930
113
Oklahoma State
928
114
Houston
926
115
Tulsa
925
116
Buffalo
923
1 – an APR of 1-to-10%
"I think it's only fair to let him ride out the
season because this is the house that Joe built."
117
New Mexico State
918
118
UL Monroe
917
119
Louisville
911
119
UTEP
911