Akron CFB Ineligible for Postseason in 2025 After Falling Below Academic Standards

There will be no bowl game for Akron during the 2025 season.

The Zips fell below the academic progress rate threshold for postseason eligibility, meaning Akron has been eliminated from bowl eligibility before the season even starts.

The Zips received a Level 1 penalty a season ago, which meant they had to reduce practices. Now with a multiyear progress rate of 914, Akron triggered another penalty and had its postseason eligibility revoked.

Akron is the first school since Idaho in 2014 to lose bowl eligibility due to academic reasons.

Since the start of the College Football Playoff era, just four teams have failed to reach the academic standard of 930, with two of those teams (LSU in 2023 and New Mexico State in 2023) receiving a waiver because of COVID. Idaho was academically ineligible from 2014 to 2017.

The odds of the Zips winning enough games to be bowl-eligible were pretty low anyway.

Akron is coming off a season in which it finished 4-8, and it went 2-10 in each of the three previous seasons. The Zips have not been to a bowl game since 2017 and have only reached the postseason three times this century.

Head coach Joe Moorhead, gearing up for his fourth season at the helm, will look to lead his team to success for the first time in years, but even if he can, a bowl game will be out of the picture.

Ineligible for the postseason or not, Akron will look to make the most of the season ahead. The Zips, who finished 3-5 in the MAC last season, start the year off with a contest against Wyoming on Aug. 28.