Hurricanes No. 6 In USA Today's Re-Ranked Football APR Top 25
June 1, 2006
Coral Gables – USA Today recently ran a graphic that presented a combination of academic and athletic success of the football programs at ACC member institutions. The newspaper took the final USA Today/Coaches Top 25 poll and re-ordered it using the recently released NCAA Academic Progress Rate (APR).
The re-organized poll has five ACC teams among the Top 15, including the “academic” No. 1 Boston College with a 982 APR score and Miami at No. 6 with a 956 score. Florida State ranked fourth at 959, Clemson 12th with a 940 and Virginia Tech 14th at 935.
The Academic Progress Rate (APR) metric was developed by the NCAA in 2004 to examine academic success on a more real-time basis. One point is awarded each term to each scholarship student-athlete who meets academic-eligibility standards and an additional point is awarded if they remain with the institution. A team’s APR is the total points earned by the team at a given time divided by the total points possible. A cutoff score of 925 corresponds to an anticipated graduation-rate of about 50%.
The Hurricanes football team graduated all 21 seniors in 2005-06.
| # | School (Final Coaches Poll) | APR |
| 1. | Boston College (17) | 982 |
| 2. | Auburn (14) | 981 |
| 3. | Florida (16) | 966 |
| 4. | Florida State (23) | 959 |
| 5. | Penn State (3) | 957 |
| 6. | Miami, Fla. (18) | 956 |
| 7. | TCU (9) | 953 |
| 8. | Louisville (20) | 952 |
| 11. | Georgia (10) | 950 |
| 10. | Notre Dame (11) | 946 |
| 11. | California (25) | 945 |
| 12. | Clemson (21) | 940 |
| 13. | LSU (5) | 935 |
| 14. | Virginia Tech (7) | 935 |
| 15. | Nebraska (24) | 932 |
| 16. | Texas (1) | 931 |
| 17. | Southern California (2) | 929 |
| 18. | Texas Tech (19) | 928 |
| 19. | Oklahoma (22) | 928 |
| 20. | West Virginia (6) | 926 |
| 21. | Ohio State (4) | 925 |
| 22. | Alabama (8) | 916 |
| 23. | UCLA (13) | 915 |
| 24. | Wisconsin (15) | 914 |
| 25. | Oregon (12) | 900 |
Source: USA Today
