Like it or not ─ and generally, most people in the process who are not players do not like it ─ the transfer portal has forever changed college football. With t

The NCAA transfer portal both gives and takes away from Group of Five programs. While schools at that level are liable to lose their top players to Power Four programs every year, the portal also allows those same schools to fill the holes by snagging athletes that may not have panned out at other programs or rising stars from the FCS level.

Texas signed the No. 1 class for the 2025 cycle, followed by Georgia, and while neither team is among the top 25 of our initial 2026 class rankings, this process is still in the early stages. As we move toward the always active early summer commitment season,