Shocking Academic Decline Forces Akron Football Out of Postseason—What Went Wrong Behind the Scenes?
Akron has been ruled ineligible for postseason play at the end of the 2025 season for academic reasons, according to On3 Sports.
The NCAA tracks multi-year Academic Progress Rate for all programs across the country, with teams needing to stay above a 930 in order to be eligible for postseason play. Akron’s has dropped to 914, leaving them well below the required threshold. The Zips are the first team to be ineligible for this reason since Idaho in the mid 2010s.
The first season that a program falls below the threshold, it is faced with limited practice time as a first-time offender. Akron’s APR was at 925 last season, and is now facing a postseason ban after seeing the numbers decline once again.
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