The NCAA Division I Administrative Committee passed dates for the one-time-only college football transfer portal on Tuesday. The 2025-26 college football transfer portal will last from Jan. 2 to Jan. 16, the NCAA announced. The committee’s action is not final until its meeting concludes on Wednesday. Moving forward, the entire Division I football notification of […]
The NCAA Division I Administrative Committee passed dates for the one-time-only college football transfer portal on Tuesday. The 2025-26 college football transfer portal will last from Jan. 2 to Jan. 16, the NCAA announced.
The committee’s action is not final until its meeting concludes on Wednesday. Moving forward, the entire Division I football notification of transfer windows will be Jan 2-16. As has been the previous standard, athletes on College Football Playoff teams still playing would have 5 days beginning the day after their team’s final game to enter the transfer portal.
If a head coach is fired, the 30-day portal window will still open for players. Back in January at the American Football Coaches Association convention in Charlotte, head coaches proposed to move the transfer portal to a 10-day window in early January after bowl games, with the spring window eliminated.
The move to a one-time-only portal is supposed to allow schools to finish their season with their entire team before the transfer portal opens.
“Let’s say we agree to deal with player A and get a signed agreement, but because of the calendar, he doesn’t report to school for 20 more days,” an SEC general manager recently told On3. “On Day 16, school X calls because they missed on players B and C, and offer him more because they are desperate. We’re now back to square one with player A, and they hold all the leverage to re-negotiate. That’s not sustainable.”
Not everyone has been a supporter of the move. The Big Ten was the lone Power Four conference not to support the move.
“I don’t think it’s a good idea at all,” Ohio State head coach Ryan Day said last month. “In the conversations that we had with the Big Ten coaches, I think the majority of them agree. I just don’t quite understand how teams that are playing in the playoffs are expected to make the decisions and sign their upcoming players while they’re still getting ready to play for games. It doesn’t make any sense to me.”
This is a breaking news story and will be updated.
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