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Message: [QUOTE="CuseLegacy, post: 5526707, member: 469"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.on3.com/news/ncaa-sets-dates-for-january-college-football-transfer-portal/[/URL] The [B]NCAA Division I Administrative Committee[/B] passed dates for the one-time-only college football [URL='https://www.on3.com/transfer-portal/wire/football/']transfer portal[/URL] on Tuesday. The 2025-26 college football transfer portal will last 15 days, spanning from Jan. 2 to Jan. 16, the NCAA [URL='https://x.com/NCAA_PR/status/1975673514305757520']announced[/URL]. 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 [B]College Football Playoff[/B] teams still playing would have 5 days beginning the day after their team’s final game to enter the transfer portal. Players have 15 days to enter the portal, but are not under a deadline to commit when they enter. Traditionally, the deadline for committing is how late a school can enroll a player through admissions. If a head coach is fired, the transfer portal will not open for players immediately. The NCAA announced on Tuesday that moving forward, players will only have 15 days to enter the portal after a coaching change instead of 30 days. Players will also have to wait five days after a new coach is hired or announced. Previously, the portal opened 30 days immediately after a coaching change. Athletes at schools who have already made coaching changes this fall will be grandfathered in. Graduate transfers also cannot enter the transfer portal until Jan. 2 with the new one-time-only portal window. Back in January at the [B]American Football Coaches Association[/B] convention in [B]Charlotte[/B], 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. With the move, the spring transfer portal window has been eliminated. The April portal window had long been a point of frustration for coaches and staffers, with players using the spring as a last point of leverage for cash before the fall. More than 1,100 FBS scholarship players entered the transfer portal in April 2025 alone. “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.” This season’s CFP semifinals are set for Jan. 8 and 9. The CFP national championship game is scheduled for Jan. 19 at [B]Hard Rock Stadium[/B] in [B]Miami Gardens, Florida[/B]. 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 [B][URL='https://www.on3.com/rivals/coach/ryan-day-133992/']Ryan Day[/URL][/B] 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.” [/QUOTE]

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