{"id":284931,"date":"2025-10-07T22:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T22:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/284931\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T22:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T22:36:11","slug":"college-football-transfer-portal-to-open-for-15-day-window-starting-jan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/284931\/","title":{"rendered":"College football transfer portal to open for 15-day window starting Jan. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>College football\u2019s transfer portal window will open for 15 days beginning on Jan. 2, a move approved by the NCAA Administrative Committee on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The change comes less than a month after the NCAA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6639008\/2025\/09\/17\/ncaa-spring-transfer-portal-eliminated\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eliminated the spring transfer portal window<\/a> for football players, leaving the sport with just one window for players to enter the portal. The move to a 15-day January period will be considered final when the committee\u2019s meeting concludes on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 15-day portal window, which will close Jan. 16, will be inclusive of undergraduates and graduate transfers. Previously, graduate transfers had exceptions to enter the portal outside the designated windows.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Notification of transfer window dates for DI football are approved by the DI Administrative Committee. <\/p>\n<p>The committee\u2019s action is not final until its meeting concludes Wednesday. Moving forward, DI football notification of transfer windows will be Jan 2-16, as recommended by the\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NCAA News (@NCAA_PR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NCAA_PR\/status\/1975673514305757520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 7, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The only exceptions to the January window that will remain are for head-coaching changes and players who play in the College Football Playoff national championship game. Players on teams who change head coaches get a 15-day window to enter, beginning five days after the coaching change. The committee also approved that change on Tuesday, which is half the length of the previous head-coaching exception window (30 days) and used to begin the day after the coaching change.<\/p>\n<p>Those who play in the national championship game will get a five-day window, which begins the day after the game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DI Administrative Committee approves proposal for transfer window exception for football head coach changes. Effective immediately, in cases of a head coach change, student-athletes will have a 15-day consecutive window beginning five days after a new coach is hired or announced.\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NCAA News (@NCAA_PR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NCAA_PR\/status\/1975677627517300955?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 7, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The portal window change came after heavy lobbying from college football coaches and the American Football Coaches Association. The efforts were directed at going from two portal windows to one and making the winter portal window as late as possible, as to not interfere with teams in postseason games. Since the institution of transfer portal windows in 2022, the winter window has typically opened in early December, following the regular season but after bowl games.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple Big Ten coaches, including Ohio State\u2019s Ryan Day, objected to the new portal window opening in January because teams will still be in the Playoff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s a good idea at all,\u201d Day said Sept. 9. \u201cI just don\u2019t quite understand how for teams that are playing in the Playoff are expected to make the decisions and sign their upcoming players while they\u2019re still getting ready to play for games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But several SEC coaches chalked it up to champagne problems. LSU coach Brian Kelly said last month, \u201cI\u2019m sorry, there\u2019s no crying on the yacht.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The portal will open following the CFP quarterfinal games, which wrap up on Jan. 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re one of the four teams that\u2019s dealing with the portal as you\u2019re in the (semifinals), I guess that\u2019s a pretty good problem to have,\u201d Texas coach Steve Sarkisian said last month. \u201cThat means you probably have a pretty good team, and you\u2019re having a good season, and you\u2019ll figure it out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve all got big enough staffs now, everybody\u2019s got their personnel departments, and general managers, and player personnel directors, and all the things. We\u2019ve got plenty of manpower that we can manage it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s move is the latest in a series of moves by the NCAA to clean up December, which was cited by coaches as one of the busiest on the football calendar because of postseason games, coaching changes, the early signing period for high school recruits and the transfer portal. The early signing period for recruits is now the Wednesday before conference championship games, almost a month before the portal opens.<\/p>\n<p>Here are other key December\/January college football dates for the 2025-26 season:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Early signing period:<\/strong> Dec. 3-5<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conference championships:<\/strong> Dec. 5-6<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bowl games begin:<\/strong> Dec. 13<\/li>\n<li><strong>CFP first-round games:<\/strong> Dec. 19-20<\/li>\n<li><strong>CFP quarterfinals:<\/strong> Dec. 31-Jan. 1<\/li>\n<li><strong>Transfer portal opens:<\/strong> Jan. 2<\/li>\n<li><strong>CFP semifinals:<\/strong> Jan. 8-9<\/li>\n<li><strong>Transfer portal closes:<\/strong> Jan. 16<\/li>\n<li><strong>CFP national championship:<\/strong> Jan. 19<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Since the introduction of transfer portal windows, the NCAA made them shorter each year. The windows were opened for a combined 60 days in the 2022-23 offseason (45 in the winter, 15 in the spring). In the 2023-24 offseason, they moved to 45 total days (30 in the winter, 15 in the spring). The most recent offseason saw the portal window days shaved to 30 (20 in the winter window, 10 in the spring).<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"College football\u2019s transfer portal window will open for 15 days beginning on Jan. 2, a move approved by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":284932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1428,1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-284931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-college-football","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-ncaafootball","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115335278378281264","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}