We’ve flipped the page on the calendar to August and, suddenly, football is in the air. As programs begin to welcome their teams to campus to start their fall camps, the transfer portal has “turned over” to a new academic year, giving us our first full calendar year of data to track how the one-time transfer rule will impact the scales of talent between the Power Five and the Group of Five.
When the transfer portal was first activated back in 2019 there was a lot of doom and gloom among G5 fans. The most common opinion at the time was that the P5 would strip mine the G5 for every NFL talent residing across the mid-major landscape.