Few changes in college football have been as polarizing as the transfer portal.

Some coaches have used it to to flip their roster quickly, others prefer to utilize it more like NFL Free Agency, and there are still a few coaches in college football that try to avoid whenever possible and build their roster through high school recruiting and development.

As beneficial as it has been from the standpoint of a lot of college coaches, there remain to be widespread issues including but not limited to watching your favorite team completely flip from year to year (for most programs), players leaving their team to chase more money, with many of them never landing another scholarship, to to endless tampering (if we can even call it that since there’s no discipline for those that do it, so it is really even a rule?) and rouge “agents” negotiating on behalf of players via social media.

There’s a lot about the portal that needs to change. No one is going to argue that.

But now, for the first time ever, we’ve got a college football program willing to peel back the curtain on the portal process.

Tulsa has announced plans to roll out a new series where they give an all access look at what navigating the portal is like for a Group of Six program.

The school has provided few details outside of an announcement on social media, but sources tell FootballScoop the show will provide a birds eye view of how a Group of Six staff navigates the portal, and provide insight into player evaluations, to getting visits arranged, to signing the portal class.

Back in September the NCAA voted to move from two transfer portal windows, down to a single one. That single portal window is now open from January 2nd through January 16th, and teams playing in games on or after the portal is set to close will have an additional five days after the end of their season to decide on whether or not to enter the portal. The original recommendation from the NCAA football Oversight Committee was for a window from January 2-11, but that deadline was extended by five days following feedback from student-athletes. 

This new 15-day window replaces the two-window calendar that had been in effect for the past several years, with one window open in December and the other in April.

Tulsa’s series is set to run the full length of that portal window being open, so here’s to hoping for some radical transparency on the process, and maybe Tulsa’s plan to have cameras everywhere will keep Power Four programs from trying to poach their roster.

As we near the end of December 2025, the Golden Hurricane have had five players enter the portal following Tre Lamb’s debut season leading the program, including J’Dan Burnett (edge), Brody Foley (TE), Joe Hjelle (DL), Ray Coney (LB) and Kirk Francis (QB). None of the five have found a landing spot, per 247.

Lamb and the Golden Hurricane look to improve their roster after going 4-8 this past fall, with one of those wins coming early in the season over Mike Gundy and Oklahoma State.