One thing college football has had differentiating itself from the National Football League is fact that free agency is not supposed to exist, at least in theory. That is been part of its intrigue that makes people love it so. Once the letter of intent is signed to FSU football or any other school a player is committed, and no matter who starts over whom, they stay.
With the NCAA change to the transfer rules in 2018, long gone are the days of a freshman quarterback sitting out until his junior year and then starting, and some strange type of new free agency has descended on college football, named the ever-famous transfer portal.