Buckeye Football Only Division I Program To Report Perfect APR Score

The Ohio State football program has succeeded on and off the field.

Following a College Football Playoff National Championship in January, the latest accolade for the Buckeye football program is a perfect score in the current release of the Academic Progress Rate (APR).

Ohio State is the only football program in Division I to post a perfect score.

The APR is a running count of every NCAA team’s academic eligibility, retention and graduation, and it also provides a measure of each team’s academic performance.

In the single-year results from the 2023-2024 academic year, 18 Ohio State programs had perfect scores: men’s basketball, men’s and women’s cross country, football, men’s fencing, men’s golf, men’s and women’s gymnastics, men’s hockey, men’s lacrosse, softball, women’s soccer, men’s and women’s tennis, men’s track and field, men’s and women’s volleyball and wrestling.

“After maintaining record-high Graduation Success Rate numbers in the autumn, OSU’s student-athletes continue to impress with this year’s APR scores,” Ohio State Faculty Athletics Representative John Davidson said in a release. “Half of our programs hold perfect single-year marks, more than half achieved a multi-year score above 990/1000, and our national champions in football boast the only perfect multi-year score in the sport across NCAA Division I.”

Seven Ohio State programs finished with perfect scores.

“At a time when media attention is myopically focused on money in college athletics, our student-athletes consistently demonstrate that academic opportunity through sport is still at the heart of the enterprise,” Davidson said. “Their success is a tribute not just to their hard work but to an athletics culture embraced by coaches, administrators, and support staff that holds education to be a primary goal.”

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