2024 College Football Portal

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Tracking the subtraction

Four days into this wild first week of transfer activity, these programs have had the most scholarship players enter the portal:

Group of 5

35: New Mexico
29: Charlotte
27: Marshall, Western Kentucky
25: Coastal Carolina, Tulsa
22: Middle Tennessee, Sam Houston
20: Louisiana Tech, UAB

The theme here is easy to identify: In this era, if your head coach built with transfers and then is fired or leaves, the transfers are leaving, too. The rosters at New Mexico, Charlotte, Marshall, Tulsa and Sam Houston are being gutted as those programs transition to new regimes. Some of these players will have an opportunity to follow their coaches to the next destination. But if you’re the coach who’s moving in next, such as Tim Albin at Charlotte, you’re starting off with a legitimate roster crisis. Going into the portal to reconstruct the roster is becoming an unavoidable first step for these jobs.

College football transfer portal Week 1 takeaways