Five Buffs Receive Academic Honors from the Pac-12 Conference

SAN FRANCISCO – Five Colorado Buffaloes were honored on the Pac-12 Conference Football All-Academic Honorable Mention team, announced Wednesday by Commissioner Larry Scott.

Junior place kicker Chris Graham, redshirt freshman offensive lineman Aaron Haigler, senior outside linebacker Aaron Howard, sophomore punter Alex Kinney and senior inside linebacker Ryan Severson were the five Buffs honored.

To be eligible for selection on the academic team, a student-athlete must have a minimum 3.0 overall grade-point average and appear in at least 50 percent of their team's games.

This is the third-straight season that Severson has been named to the All-Academic Honorable Mention team. The senior majoring in business (both management and marketing) at Colorado was also a semifinalist for the 2016 William V. Campbell Trophy, otherwise known as the Academic Heisman.

Howard, a psychology major, earned second-team Pac-12 All-Academic Team honors a year ago while Graham, an integrative physiology major, was an honorable mention selection.

For Haigler, a business major, and Kinney, an environmental studies major, this is their first career selections on the Pac-12 All-Academic Team.

A year ago, eight Buffs earned Pac-12 Football All-Academic honors. The Colorado team has seen success in the classroom under Head Coach Mike MacIntyre's leadership, boasting a notable Academic Progress Rate score of 968 last year.

The eight-ranked Buffs (No. 9 AP) face No. 4 Washington Friday in the 7 p.m. MT Pac-12 Championship game at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif.

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Five Buffs Receive Academic Honors from the Pac-12 Conference

Players Mentioned

Chris Graham

Aaron Haigler

Aaron Howard

Alex Kinney

Ryan Severson

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