New NCAA APR scores show who could bowl at 5-7

May 23 2018 by SBNation.com

 

The NCAA’s chosen metric for academic progress also factors into bowl season.

What happens to bowl season if there aren’t enough college football teams with six wins or more? Since 2015, the NCAA’s allowed bowls to dip into teams with 5-7 records, with the leaders in APR getting first dibs.

What’s APR? That’s Academic Progress Rate, the NCAA’s attempt to measure how well a program has done at advancing its athletes toward graduation over a rolling period of four years at a...

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