"Major changes are coming to the transfer portal in college football after the NCAA Football Oversight Committee voted Thursday to move to a January transfer window and eliminate the spring transfer window, a source confirmed to ESPN. The proposed lone transfer window would be a 10-day period that opens on Jan. 2, 2026, one day after the College Football Playoff quarterfinals are completed."
"FBS coaches voted unanimously to support the January portal proposal during their American Football Coaches Association convention earlier this year, believing it will give players and coaches more time to focus on finishing their season while still preserving the opportunity for players to transfer to their new school for the spring semester. In recent years, the transfer portal has opened for underclassmen transfers in early December immediately following conference championship games and bowl selections."
"The collision of transfer transactions, coaching changes, high school signing day and College Football Playoff and bowl games in December has been a major source of frustration for football coaching staffs. Last season, Penn State and SMU both lost backup quarterbacks to the portal while they were still competing in the playoff, and Marshall opted out of the Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl after determining it did not have enough players to compete due to portal departures brought on by a coaching change."
The NCAA Football Oversight Committee voted to move to a single January transfer window and eliminate the spring window. The proposed window would be a 10-day period beginning Jan. 2, 2026, one day after College Football Playoff quarterfinals. FBS coaches unanimously supported the change at the American Football Coaches Association convention, citing more time to finish the season while still enabling spring-semester transfers. Recent schedules opened the portal in early December and again in spring, creating clashes with coaching changes, signing day and postseason play. Coaches welcomed the elimination of the spring window, though legal challenges over movement restrictions could arise.
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