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Syracuse Football: ACC Announces 2016 All-ACC Academic Football Team

Updated Mar. 4, 2020 8:21 p.m. ET

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The ACC announced their 66-man All Academic Football team Wednesday by Commissioner John Swofford. Did any Syracuse football players make the list?

“To be eligible for consideration for the team, a student-athlete must have earned a 3.00 grade point average for the previous semester and maintained a 3.00 cumulative average during his undergraduate and/or graduate academic career.

All 14 ACC schools were represented on the team. The ACC has selected an All-ACC Academic Football team every year since 1954. Nineteen members of the team have already received their undergraduate degrees.

The team was chosen from a pool of 143 ACC football student-athletes who were nominated by their schools.”

(Via the Atlantic Coast Conference Communications Official Press Release)

The Syracuse football team had the fifth most representatives with five Orange stars.

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— Syracuse Football (@CuseFootball) February 8, 2017

Eric Dungey and Zach Mahoney were two of nine ACC quarterbacks who were selected.

SU also had one representative out of the 66 man group who was selected who earned CoSIDA Academic All-American honors. That was Syracuse senior tight end Cameron MacPherson (Syracuse, New York) who joined Duke redshirt senior defensive tackle A. J. Wolf (Greenwich, Connecticut) were first team CoSIDA Academic All-American selections, while Virginia’s Kiser and Boston College’s Kavalec were second-team honorees.

Some more Syracuse football notes and quotes via Cuse.com:

“Orange running backs coach Mike Hart is among the 34 NCAA football coaches selected to participate in the 2017 NCAA and NFL Coaches Academy from Feb. 9-12 in Tampa, Fla.

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This is an amazing opportunity for Mike Hart to learn and add to his already impressive resume. This is the second year in a row a Syracuse assistant has been invited to take part in one of the NCAA’s coaching leadership development programs.