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Ryan Day says the move to a potential single transfer window in January is not 'a good idea at all'
There may not be widespread support for the push to move college football’s transfer window to January.
Ohio State coach Ryan Day said Tuesday that he wasn’t a fan of the proposal to have a single transfer portal window in January and that he believed a majority of Big Ten coaches agreed with him.
“I don’t think it’s a good idea at all. In the conversations we had with the Big Ten coaches, I think the majority of them agree," Day said. "I just don’t quite understand how for teams that are playing in the playoffs are expected to make the decisions and sign their upcoming players while they’re still getting ready to play for games. It doesn’t make any sense to me. I know the calendar is funky but I know that the Big Ten and [commissioner] Tony Petitti has been working hard because he doesn’t believe it either and neither do the coaches in the Big Ten. We’ve had a lot of long discussions about that and try and work through the different windows but I don’t agree with it being in January.”
Last week, the NCAA’s Football Oversight Committee voted in favor of a single 10-day portal window beginning on Jan. 2. That would be the only time college football players could transfer ahead of the 2026 season. Before the 2025 season, players had the opportunity to transfer during a 20-day period in December and a 10-day period in April.
The move to a single portal window would not be official until passed by the NCAA’s Division I Committee and would have to be passed by Oct. 1 to go into effect after the 2025 season.
Finding the “right” time for a single transfer portal window seems impossible because of the length of the season and the way the academic calendar is structured at schools across the country. Under the current setup, coaches were recruiting players while preparing for bowl games and juggling their rosters since players who wanted to transfer were likely to skip those bowl games.
Having the window begin in January means it would start after most bowl games are being played. However, the effects on teams still competing in the College Football Playoff would be exacerbated.
The two playoff semifinal games are on Jan. 8 and Jan. 9 and the portal window would close on Jan. 11. A player whose team lost in the second semifinal game would have 48 hours to enter the portal after his team's season was over.
And if a player is on a team that makes it to the national title game, he'd have to choose between remaining at his school for another season or transferring before the season is over without a second transfer window. That's a less than ideal situation for the teams advancing deep into the postseason, even if it would significantly change things for everyone else.
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