15 May 2006

Go Noles!

Florida State University's football ranking have been less than impressive of late, but there was some good news this week. According to a press release from the FSU athletic department:


"Seminoles No. 4 In USA Today's Re-Ranked Football APR Top 25 " May 10, 2006

"USA Today 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 Florida State at No. 4 with a 959 score. Miami ranked sixth at 956, 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%."


My wife's alma mater (Notre Dame) is number 10. The University of Wisconsin is number 25.

For the full rankings, click here.

1 Comments:

Blogger Philip Booth said...

nice, but, uh, I feel it's appropriate to say this: Go Gators!

9:32 PM  

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