•         UCF football's multi-year APR of 971 is tied for 18th nationally amongst FBS institutions, with Notre Dame and Wake Forest.
•         UCF is 10th in the nation for football APR amongst public FBS schools, exempting service academies Navy and Air Force.
•         UCF ranks eighth nationally amongst schools from non-automatic qualifying BCS Conferences and Notre Dame.
•         UCF's 971 trails only Miami (979) and Florida (976) amongst Florida's 10 Division I football teams.
•         The Knights' lofty APR trails only Rice (983) amongst C-USA schools.

The football team has never been below the 925 threshold. Overall, UCF has never had a team penalized for low APR standings. The APR is a matter taken extremely seriously by the NCAA as teams that score below a multi-year 925 and have a student leave school academically ineligible can lose up to 10 percent of their scholarships.  

The APR provides a real-time "snapshot" of a team's academic success each semester by looking at current academic progress of every student-athlete. The APR includes eligibility, retention, and graduation as factors in the rate calculation and provides a much clearer picture of the current academic culture in each sport.

The APR is the fulcrum upon which the entire academic-reform structure rests. Developed as a more real-time assessment of teams' academic performance than the six-year graduation-rate calculation provides, the APR awards two points each term to student-athletes who meet academic-eligibility standards and who remain with the institution. A team's APR is the total points earned by the team at a given time divided by the total points possible.  

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2011 UCF Football season ticket packages can be purchased online at UCFAthletics.com or by calling the UCF Athletics Ticket Office at (407) 823-1000.  Should UCF host the C-USA Championship Game for the fourth time in seven years, it would be played on Saturday, Dec. 3 and season ticket holders will receive the first shot at the best seats.  

45,000 UKNIGHT ON SEPT. 3rd!
•         2010 AutoZone Liberty Bowl champions
•         Top 20 ranking and a program-best 11 wins in 2010
•         Two-time Conference USA champions (2007 & 2010)
•         Three-time Conference USA East Division champions (2005, 2007 & 2010)
•         Four bowl appearances since 2005
•         Led by three-time C-USA Coach of the Year George O'Leary
•         Over a dozen UCF Knights appeared on NFL rosters in 2010