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"It gets easily forgotten, but this is college football. Of course, college football is nothing more than a glorified minor league, but the guys still have to go to class and at least pretend to try.

Welcome to the Academic Progress Reports, better known as the APR, taking a look at the classes from 2006-2007 to 2010-2011. Every Division I sports team calculates its APR each academic year, based on the eligibility, retention and graduation of each scholarship student-athlete. Programs that score below 925 (this is the Mendoza line ... if you can't hit this, you're just not trying) on their four-year rate and can lose up to 10 percent of their scholarships through immediate penalties. Programs that dip below 900 - there weren't any this year - face additional sanctions and can also face historically based penalties for poor academic performance over time.

Below are the rankings for the FBS teams based on their APR and with our scoring for how they graded out. We categorized the teams into ten categories. If a program was in the 90-100% range, it gets a 10 (for our Program Rankings to come out later this summer), while a program that finished in the 1-10% range gets a 1.

10 is obviously amazing, anything 7 or above is fantastic, and 4 or below is miserable. "

4 - an APR of 30-to-40%

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79 Auburn 943
79 Michigan State 943
79 New Mexico 943
85 Central Michigan 941
85 SMU 941
87 Cincinnati 939
88 Colorado 938
88 Iowa State 938
88 North Texas 938
91 Arizona State 937

2011: 4 - an APR of 30-to-40%

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T85 Ole Miss - SEC 939
T85 SMU - C-USA 939
T85 Purdue - Big Ten 939
88 Michigan State - Big Ten 938
T89 Arkansas - SEC 937
T89 Eastern Michigan - MAC 937

2010: 4 - an APR of 30-to-40%

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T76 Tulsa C-USA 939
T76 Miss State SEC 939
T76 Louisiana Tech WAC 939
T79 Southern Miss C-USA 938
T79 SMU C-USA 938
T79 South Carolina SEC 938
T79 Utah State WAC 938
83 NC State ACC 937
84 Michigan Big Ten 936

2009:7 - an APR of 60-to-70%

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34. Oklahoma 952
T35. Connecticut 951
T35. Missouri 951
37. Nebraska 950
T38. Auburn 949
T38. Ohio 949
T38. Tennessee 949
T41. Fresno State 948
T41. Kentucky 948
T41. Memphis 948
T41. UCLA 948
T41. Western Kentucky 948
T46. Cincinnati 947
T46. Michigan 947
T46. North Carolina 947
T46. Northern Illinois 947
T46. SMU 947
T51. Iowa 946
T51. Texas A&M 946

Summary of Key Numbers:

Present Minimum Requirement: 925
Eventual Minimum Requirement: 930
Football Multi-year Score (Fall 2007-Spring 2011-year delayed): 941
Basketball Multi-year Score: 943

I got the numbers off the NCAA Database-seem to be a tad different than CFN. We actually did much better in the most recent period-again a year delayed. Football went up about 50+ points to 960 in most recent reporting year and Basketball up 80+ points to 961 from the almost disasterous prior annual reporting period. Another year like the prior reporting year and we'd be hovering around the Minimum required score in both FB and BB so this is good news. Since it is a year delay for example it would not reflect the mass turnover in the Larry Brown regime.

I think this is the report: http://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/apr2011/663_2011_apr.pdf

yes-here is the Database Index you can find the scores for any year, conference, school

http://web1.ncaa.org/maps/aprRelease.jsp

there is another site that tracks Coaches scores