The NCAA’s Football Oversight Committee will recommend eliminating the 15-day spring transfer portal window, sources confirmed to CBS Sports’ Dennis Dodd. The Division I Council received the proposal this week and will decide whether it moves forward during its fall meetings.
If adopted, the measure could take effect as early as 2025, which would mean athletes looking to transfer before the 2025 season would have to do so during the winter portal window.
The overwhelming majority of players who transferred following the 2023 season did so in the 30-day winter portal window. Eliminating the spring portal window would likely be a welcome change for coaches who must operate in a position of uncertainty throughout spring practice over how many of the players on their roster may ultimately leave.
One wrinkle is concern with the forthcoming roster changes that will cap rosters at 105 players stemming from the House v. NCAA decision. The reduction in roster spots is expected to create uncertainty with transfer windows.
“I don’t know which way the council will go on on this,” one NCAA Division I Football Oversight Committee member told Dodd; however, this is typically how legislation moves up the pipeline, and while rejections aren’t unprecedented, they are uncommon.
