Shockwaves in College Football: Top Program Faces Postseason Ban Over Academic Scandal
Here’s a curious little twist for the upcoming college football season: what if your team isn’t exactly sidelined by losses or injuries, but by something far less flashy—academics? Yep, the Akron Zips are slated to miss the postseason in 2025 not because they didn’t win enough, but because their Academic Progress Rate (APR) took a nosedive below the NCAA’s cutoff. Now, before you shrug and think, “Ah, Akron, who cares?”—consider this: this marks the first time in nearly a decade that a program’s been slapped with postseason ineligibility strictly for hitting the bookworm brakes. It’s almost poetic, in a bitter way, especially when you peg Akron’s historical struggles on the gridiron alongside this latest blow. But maybe, just maybe, this ignites a question: could a team’s worst stadium antics or a season mired in losses be outshined by off-the-field missteps? And might the Zips find a way to surprise everyone by turning this academic hill into a hill of triumph?
A certain college football program is going to be done for the year in December regardless of how well they do between September and November.
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