Rutgers football's academic performance is back on the rise.
One year after the program bottomed out in the classroom with an all-time low single-year APR score of 948 under former coach Kyle Flood's watch, Rutgers scored a 981 for the 2015-16 academic year, according to numbers released Wednesday by the NCAA.
It is the third-highest single-year score for Rutgers football since 2008-09.
Football's multi-year score -- representative of the four-year period from 2012-13 through 2015-16 -- was up one point, from 972 to 973. The national average for FBS teams is 966, and teams need to maintain a multi-year score of at least 930 to be eligible for NCAA postseason play.