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Recent Ohio State Happenings, Big Ten Data Shows Transfer Portal Impacts College Basketball As Much, If Not More Than Football

Chaos in the transfer portal is associated with college football more than any other sport, at least in Columbus-area circles.

That’s the nature of living in the fifth-largest American city that’s never had an NFL football franchise, and the only of those five outside of Austin, Texas, to contain a nationally relevant college football powerhouse. It’s also the nature of living in a country where college football is exceeded in popularity (in terms of attendance and TV ratings) only by the NFL, the media attention that goes with that and the now highly-publicized nature of NIL’s influence and de facto free agency in regards to the pigskin.