The NCAA announced the latest Academic Progress Rate, or APR, rankings by conference for 2019.

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The NCAA released its annual report of the Academic Progress Rate, or APR, measuring the improvements and academic success for the 2017-2018 school year.

Why does this matter? The higher the rating, the better the chance to go bowling if a football team doesn’t get to six wins.

It’s the tie-breaker. If there aren’t enough bowl eligible teams, and slots need filling, the criteria is the APR. Mississippi State and North Texas benefitted from this three seasons ago.

Taken from the NCAA, the APR is calculated as follows:

Each student-athlete receiving athletically related financial aid earns one point for staying in school and one point for being academically eligible.

A team’s total points are divided by points possible and then multiplied by 1,000 to equal the team’s Academic Progress Rate.

In addition to a team’s current-year APR, its rolling four-year APR is also used to determine accountability.

So which teams got the job done in the classroom? Here’s the APR ranking by conference …

ACC

T1 Clemson 992

T1 Duke 992

T3 Wake Forest 989

T3 Boston College 989

T5 Louisville 984

T5 Pitt 984

7 Georgia Tech 980

T8 NC State 970

T8 Miami 970

10 Virginia 969

11 Syracuse 968

12 North Carolina 964

13 Virginia Tech 953

14 Florida State 936

American Athletic Conference

1 Navy 991

2 UCF 987

T3 Temple 983

T3 Cincinnati 983

5 Connecticut 981

6 Memphis 976

7 USF 970

8 SMU 967

9 Tulane 956

10 Houston 950

11 Tulsa 943

12 East Carolina 937

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