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Arizona State football joins the UpNext network
The Big 12 program, with General Manager Josh Omura and his staff, is now on the verified network.
The Operators Have Seen the CSC's Numbers. They Aren't Using Them.
The people who build rosters read the College Sports Commission's numbers last week, checked them against the deals on their desks, and went back to work.
Week 9's biggest finishes, and the five transfers behind them
No. 2 Ohio State lost, Indiana needed a 60-yard field goal at the gun, and two ranked teams lost on the final drive. A transfer was in the middle of each.
Kansas State football joins the UpNext network
The Big 12 program, with General Manager Trey Scott and his staff, is now on the verified network.
North Texas football joins the UpNext network
The American Conference program, with general manager Errin Joe and his staff, is now on the verified network.
The No. 1 team in FCS signed 54 transfers. Saturday's win came from five different roads.
Tarleton State signed 63 players for 2026, and 54 of them were transfers. On Oct. 24 the Texans played their first game ranked No. 1 in FCS and won it by 43.
Nevada football joins the UpNext network
The Mountain West program, with general manager Cole Moore and his staff, is now on the verified network.
Tulsa football joins the UpNext network
The American program, with general manager Mason Behiel and his staff, is now on the verified network.
Four first-year staffs won on Saturday. A transfer was at the center of each.
Auburn, Florida, Kentucky and LSU all have head coaches in their first season, and all four won on Oct. 17. At the center of each win was a player who chose that new staff in January.
Louisville football joins the UpNext network
The ACC program and its staff are now on the verified network.
Eastern Kentucky football joins the UpNext network
The UAC program, with director of football operations Daniel Berezowitz and his staff, is now on the verified network.
The walk-on, the backup, the former quarterback and the safety: the roads behind Week 6
Oklahoma beat No. 1 Texas, Kentucky beat No. 10 LSU, UCLA won at No. 13 Oregon and Houston won by 19 at Kansas State. Each win ran through a player who chose a new school, and each choice has paid off.
Virginia football joins the UpNext network
The ACC program, with general manager Justin Speros and his staff, is now on the verified network.
The Harrisonburg tree: James Madison, Indiana and UCLA after Week 5
Three of the 15 teams still unbeaten after Week 5 trace back to James Madison. Coaches left, players followed, and the ones who stayed kept winning.
Why five programs moved 321 players through the portal
Oklahoma State, Temple, Charlotte, Dartmouth and Virginia moved 321 players through the portal in one cycle. The counts look alike. The reasons behind them do not.
Five FCS breakouts from Week 4, and where each one came from
A redshirt freshman in his first season at North Carolina A&T with 12 tackles against No. 19 Rhode Island, a CAA sack leader, a Harvard safety with three interceptions, an Alabama A&M freshman with 223 yards and a Richmond defensive end on the Freaks List.
The second January
Twenty-nine programs hired a head coach for 2025. Twenty-five of those coaches are still in the chair, and each one just ran his second portal cycle with a year of film on his own decisions. The people behind the counts include a Division II MVP starting at Bowling Green, a Springfield quarterback who came home to a 0-12 UMass, and a Richmond linebacker who got a call from Bill Belichick. Five programs, 272 recorded transfers.
The Season Starts Saturday
Three weeks ago in Nashville, the people who run this market told us what the year ahead runs on. Starting Saturday in Dublin, the season grades their answers.
Verify Before You Move
Four checks for a board you can defend when the timeline is a weekend. Start with the first one this week.
The Verification Gap
The market moves in days now. Most boards still run on data nobody's confirmed.
The Window Plan
Every program starts the portal from the same list. The window is won by what you decide before it opens.
The Short List
Programs cannot always tell who is real. So they run the transfer market through the few agents they trust.
The Offer Read
How an agent reads an NIL number: three checks before the money moves a client.
The Agent Layer
Representation is an information problem and a trust problem, and both are more legible than they look.