Forget the scoreboard. Poor academic progress scores mean Akron football is first FBS team ineligible for a bowl for academic reasons in a decade.

3News has reached out to Akron's athletic department for comment. The Zips' 2025 season is scheduled to begin on Aug. 28 against Wyoming at InfoCision Stadium.

The University of Akron Zips football program will be ineligible for the 2025 NCAA football postseason due to its low Academic Progress Rate score, according to the NCAA’s APR database.

Sep 21, 2024; Columbia, South Carolina, USA; Akron Zips head coach Joe Moorhead directs his team against the South Carolina Gamecocks in the first quarter at Williams-Brice Stadium. / Jeff Blake ...

Redshirt junior third baseman Katie Van Der Mark capped a five-run sixth inning with a walk-off, two-run single to help lead ...

The Akron football team will be ineligible this season because of its multiyear Academic Progress Rate score, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday. Akron had a score of 914, below the 930 ...

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Akron football hasn't played in a bowl game since 2017, and the Zips will enter the 2025 season knowing the postseason won't happen this year, either. Akron failed to meet NCAA-imposed academic ...