(Photo courtesy of Bernard Gooden’s Instagram)
By Chris Marler
Good news everyone, the transfer portal is closed. I think.
As of Friday, April 25, the transfer portal is officially closed, at least according to the NCAA’s calendar. Whether the NCAA still enforces anything, especially in college football, is another conversation entirely.
For today, the portal is closed and the spring portal was far less chaotic than the December window. That was no surprise, given it’s exactly what we saw last year and the year before. With the new revenue-sharing model set to launch July 1, many expected more movement or at least some big paydays during the spring window.
What we saw in the SEC was a total of 81 players leaving their respective schools, with 15 of the 16 teams having at least one player leave in the ten day window. That may have been the biggest surprise of the portal, to be honest.
One team not losing a single player in a window, no matter how short it may be, almost seems impossible to imagine in the current climate of college football. Alabama being the one school seems even more shocking, especially when you consider that they’ve lost 65 players in total to the portal over the last two years.
Regardless, all the numbers are in and here’s where each SEC team stands as we head into the actual college football offseason, finally.
Total Players Lost in the Spring Window
9 – Ole Miss
8 – Kentucky, Mississippi State
7 – Arkansas, Missouri
6 – Auburn, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vanderbilt
5 – Oklahoma
4 – Georgia, Texas
2 – Florida, Texas A&M
1 – LSU
0 – Alabama
Total Players Lost in Both Windows Combined
38 – Arkansas
37 – Oklahoma
34 – Mississippi State
30 – Kentucky
28 – Ole Miss
25 – Auburn
24 – Alabama, Missouri, Texas A&M
23 – LSU
22 – Tennessee, South Carolina
19 – Florida, Vanderbilt
18 – UGA
16 – Texas
Total Players Gained in Both Windows Combined
31 – Mississippi State
30 – Ole Miss
26 – Arkansas
22 – Kentucky
21 – Missouri
20 – Auburn
19 – Oklahoma
18 – Vanderbilt
17 – LSU
16 – South Carolina
14 – Texas A&M
11 – Alabama
10 – UGA, Texas
6 – Florida
4 – Tennessee
