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Texas is No. 1 in the Big 12, at least academically.

The NCAA released the Division I Academic Progress Rates (APR) on Wednesday and the Longhorns' football team came in atop the Big 12. Their score of 978 is also Texas' best "multi-year mark" since the APR was first released, the school announced.

The APR is a look at the academic progress made by institutions and programs around the NCAA. According to the NCAA's website, the APR "holds institutions accountable for the academic progress of their student-athletes through a team-based metric that accounts for the eligibility and retention of each student-athlete for each academic term."

The football team wasn't the only Longhorns' squad to have success. Three of the 20 programs (men's tennis, women's basketball and women's swimming and diving) recorded a perfect score of 1,000 while the baseball team came in at 993. Shaka Smart's men's basketball team scored 989.

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