FBS rosters grow to 20

• Tom VanHaaren, ESPN Personnel WriterNov 29, 2023, 12:34 PM ET

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As the transfer portal has actually continued to grow in popularity throughout college football, the 2023 season showed just how big of an effect transfers have made on the game.In the 2019 season, just 6.4% of FBS lineups were made up of transfers, according to data from SportSource Analytics. That number grew to 20.5% of lineups in 2023.

The transfer website window for this offseason opens on Dec. 4, which allows student professional athletes to enter their name in a database to receive communication from coaches and possibly transfer without penalty.Graduate transfers are

able to enter their name in the portal at any time, and any players who have seen their head coach fired or leave for another job have an instant 30-day window to put their name in the database, too. Because we have already seen the training carousel start this offseason, there have actually been a variety of players already seeking to transfer.Since Sunday, completion

of the routine season, there has actually been over 170 FBS football players to enter their name in the transfer portal.There has actually not been a scarcity of interest from teams in those players moving, either, as we saw Colorado coach Deion Sanders make waves in the website after he was worked with. Colorado brought in the most first-year transfer players of any FBS and had the most games played by transfers at 69.6% (54 transfers).

“You take a team that’s won one game, and you fired a whole training staff. So who did the coaching personnel hire? The kids,” Sanders stated during a “60 Minutes” interview in September. “So, the kids are simply as much to blame as the training staff. I pertained to the conclusion that a wide variety of them couldn’t help us get to where we wanted to go.”

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Texas State was second with 64% of games played by transfers (45 ), followed by Charlotte at 55.8% (46 ), Ole Miss at 54.5% (27) and UMass at 53.3% (27 ).

Conversely, beyond the military colleges, Clemson had the fewest games played by transfers at simply 0.3%, followed by Georgia at 5%.

“It’s a developmental game, it’s a developmental program,” Swinney informed reporters in July. “That’s how we’ve always won, that’s how we’ll continue to win. From time to time if there’s a specific fit or need that we have to deal with since of a space, we’ll do that. We just have not been in that situation, luckily.”

The most significant position group that has actually been affected by the transfer portal has been at quarterback with 56 FBS teams having a transfer quarterback represent 75% or more of the team’s passing backyards during the 2023 season, according to SportSource Analytics. The top 6 quarterbacks in passing lawns are all transfers, and the top 10 quarterbacks in passing goals are all transfers.This weekend, the groups in the Pac-12 and Big 12 title games will all feature transfer starting quarterbacks in Washington’s Michael Penix Jr. and Oregon’s Bo Nix, together with Texas’ Quinn Ewers and Oklahoma State’s Alan Bowman.The ACC title game features Louisville’s Jake Plummer, who followed coach Jeff Brohm from Purdue, and would have had another transfer QB on the other side had Florida State’s Jordan Travis not been injured.In the 2019 season, just 23.9% of beginning quarterbacks were transfers compared to 55.7 %in 2023. That has alternatively impact the opportunity for freshmen quarterbacks to play. High school potential customers were being available in more ready than ever and in 2019 when 10.1%of first-year quarterbacks were beginners. That number has actually dropped to simply 2.8 percent in 2023. As the website is about to open ahead of the 2024 season, it will be packed with beginning quarterbacks

. Kansas State’s Will Howard, Miami’s Tyler Van Dyke, Temple’s E.J. Warner, Will Rogers from Mississippi State, Tyler Shough from Texas Tech, Max Johnson from Texas A&M and a handful of other significant quarterbacks have currently announced their choices to move.