Look Who's Transferring Now (The Portal)

[Captain Buckeye]

This is why you don’t give a 5 star true freshman 3 million a year. No one is a lock and I don’t care what the hype but unless they’re a sure bet (JJ Smith) you don’t spend that kind of money on a high school senior.

I’ve lost all interest in recruiting for this reason. We aren’t going to recklessly spend money because of a kids ranking and I love that.

We have a great approach going where we are still going to get some great kids but we are going to more so spend money in the portal if we have to.

 

[ScriptOhio]

College Football’s Lone Transfer Portal Window Officially Moved to January 2-16 for 2026

After modifying the dates to Jan. 2 through Jan. 16, the NCAA is officially implementing its new, once-per-year college football transfer portal window.

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College Football’s Lone Transfer Portal Window Officially Moved to January 2-16 for 2026​

With a tweak to the originally proposed dates, the NCAA's new one-time transfer portal notification window will take effect this January.

College football players will now have from Jan. 2 through Jan. 16 to notify their teams of their intent to enter the transfer portal after the change was approved by the NCAA D-I Administrative Committee, per a release by the NCAA. The NCAA's 30-day transfer window for athletes going through head coaching changes has also been shrunk to 15 days by the committee, and will now open after a new coach is hired rather than when a coach is fired.



The original recommendation from the NCAA Football Oversight Committee was for a window from Jan. 2-11, but the deadline was extended by five days following feedback from student-athletes, per the release.

The new, singular portal window replaces the two-window calendar that had been in effect for college football the past several years, with one window in December and one in April. No system is perfect and reducing the transfer portal cycle to one window should help reduce some of the chaos of the portal era, but there are some flaws with the dates selected by the NCAA.
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[pnuts34]

This is being echoed by transfer player no less, but it's what most of us rational OSU fans have been saying in regards to the Portal and HS recruiting. There has to be a balance, and the moment you start playing the game of paying the incoming players more than the current roster, turnover and locker room issues will rise.

 

[calibuck]

Read/heard somewhere that with the portal, there's no reason to pad your team with 3*s, just to fill out the roster and holes within. Keep them open and fill them with transfers later on, sounds like a more sound position. And yeah, saw that Ojo said that tOSU was number 2 in his recruitment, but $5.1M was too good to pass up. Well, heck, agree with him, so maybe he's positioning himself to make a jump to the Buckeyes after he puts in a couple years with the Goat Ropers (TT), before he moves on up to the Buckeyes?