Akron football team banned from postseason games after failing to reach NCAA's minimum academic score

The Akron Zips shot programme is ineligible for postseason games adjacent play owed to mediocre grades successful the classroom. 

The program’s multi-year Academic Progress Rate people is 914, which is beneath the 930 minimum for postseason eligibility, according to NCAA rules. 

The governing assemblage updated its nationalist APR database with the latest scores, and Akron volition not beryllium blessed to spot it can’t play successful immoderate vessel games adjacent if it qualifies.

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Akron Zips antiaircraft lineman Marcus Moore Jr. (52) takes connected Ohio State Buckeyes violative lineman Austin Siereveld (67) during the 2nd fractional of a crippled astatine Ohio Stadium. (Imagn)

The Mid-American Conference squad has not played successful a vessel crippled since 2017, besides the past clip the programme won much than 4 games successful a season. 

It’s been hard for the Zips successful caller seasons. Since they went 7-7 successful 2017, they haven’t had a play amended than 4-8, which includes the 2024 campaign. 

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They went 0-12 successful 2019 earlier going 1-5 successful 2020 and finishing 2-10 3 consecutive seasons from 2021-23. 

STVM shot manager Doran Grant, left, welcomes players disconnected the tract during the archetypal fractional Sept. 6, 2024. (Imagn)

Idaho was the past squad successful Division I FBS ineligible for the postseason owed to APR scores successful 2014.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, APR people penalties person not been utilized by the NCAA since outpouring 2020. However, the NCAA voted to reconstruct its aged policies. 

The past clip Akron won a vessel crippled was successful 2015, erstwhile Terry Bowden was coaching the team. 

Akron Zips antiaircraft lineman CJ Nunnally IV, bottom, celebrates a strip-sack with linebacker Antavious Fish to seal a triumph for Akron precocious successful an NCAA assemblage shot crippled against Colgate Sept. 14, 2024, successful Akron, Ohio. (Imagn)

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The Zips defeated Utah State, 23-21, that twelvemonth successful the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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