College football will continue to have a spring transfer window for at least one more year.
While the NCAA Division I Committee voted Tuesday to shorten the college football transfer portal window from 45 to 30 days, it decided to keep the spring transfer window in place, shortening the fall window from 30 to 20 days while shortening the spring window from 15 days to 10.
The new transfer windows go into effect for 2024-25. This winter, the transfer portal will open on Dec. 9 – one day after the College Football Playoff committee announces its 12-team field for this season – and close on Dec. 29. Four months later, another window will open from April 16 to April 25, following spring football.
Effective immediately, football notification of transfer windows will open for 30 total days, including 20 days after FBS conference championship weekend and 10 days in the spring.
— NCAA News (@NCAA_PR) October 8, 2024
For the current year, those dates will be Dec. 9-28 and April 16-25.
The NCAA's decision to keep the latter comes six weeks after Ross Dellenger of Yahoo Sports reported the organization had considered its elimination.
In addition to the winter and spring windows, student-athletes whose coach left their program will receive a 30-day transfer window, allowing them to explore options elsewhere.
This summer, the NCAA reported that over 2,800 FBS scholarship players entered the transfer portal during the 2023-24 academic year. After removing student-athletes who withdrew or elected to enter the 2024 NFL draft, the final number of transfers settled at 2,707, indicating that roughly 25 percent of all FBS scholarship players entered the portal after last season.
