After three weeks of chaos across college football, portal season is coming to a close Saturday.
Players face a Saturday deadline to enter their name in the transfer portal. They'll continue to take official visits and can make their final decisions at any time, and last year's cycle stretched deep into January thanks to belated coaching changes at Alabama, Michigan and several other schools. But barring a coaching change, if players don't enter the portal now, they'll have to wait until April 16 for the next transfer window to open.
More than 2,000 FBS scholarship players have entered their names into the portal since Aug. 1 to explore transfers, and more than 800 have committed to or signed with their next school.
Who's currently thriving and building impressive transfer recruiting classes to make a run in 2025? Who got hit the hardest during three long weeks of unpredictable departures? Going into deadline day, we're breaking down five early winners and losers from the 2024-25 portal cycle.
