JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – The NCAA announced on Wednesday that College Football is officially moving to a single offseason transfer portal window.
The Division I Administrative Committee adopted a proposal to eliminate the spring transfer portal window, moving away from the previous two-window system which allowed players to enter the portal over 30 days across the winter and spring.
The Administrative Committee did not sign off on Wednesday to establish January 2-11 as the only portal window for FBS and FCS players.
The FBS and FCS oversight committees will discuss possible changes to the dates and length of the proposed January window, and the Administrative Committee will consider those adjustments when it meets in October.
Many FBS coaches have recently made it clear they want a lone January transfer portal window, with some coaches advocating for it at the AFCA convention in January this year.
The initial proposal would require college football players to wait until January 2, the day after the College Football Playoff quarterfinals, to enter their names in the NCAA transfer portal. Graduate transfers were previously allowed to enter the portal early but now must also wait until the January window.
Players on teams still competing in the College Football Playoffs would have five days after their final postseason game to enter the portal. This season’s CFB semifinal games are scheduled for January 8 and 9.
To put the change in perspective, last year’s winter portal window was from December 9-28 with the spring portal window opening from April 16-25.
The change comes to alleviate the stress of the jam packed December schedule, which includes transfer recruiting, coaching changes, bowl practice, high school signing day, bowl games, and the College Football Playoffs.
The spring window has become a controversial topic over the recent years due to unexpected post-spring transfers and the elimination of the one-time transfer rule which has given players and agents the leverage to demand more money or playing-time by threatening to transfer.
This year, more than 1,100 FBS scholarship players entered the transfer portal during the Spring window.
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