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Maybe we didn’t lose anyone because at that point and at this time there is no where to go right now. Portal will be about balancing your roster and finding experience, not adding freshmen.
Portal will be different this year. This is the double attrition year. Players who entered in 2020 got a Covid year, and used up their eligibility this year. Players who entered in 2021 did not get a Covid year, and also used up their eligibility this year. A lot less people will end up with no home this year.
And additionally, schools can offer 105 scholarships rather than the previous 85.
Can, but do you know how many schools actually are? We are not.
Its 85 scholarships and a roster limit of 105. Ohio can offer partial scholarships across 105 players if it chose to do so. The bigger difference is programs are no longer allowed to bloat the walk-on roster to 120, 130 or 140. 105 is the roster max so former P4 walk-on material guys will have to find roster spots at smaller programs.
Everything I've seen says it can be 105 full scholarships. You may be right, but I can't find documentation of that anywhere so help us out with a definitive source. Thanks.
I believe it is 105 full scholarships, which is what it used to be in the old days before they reduced to 95 and then 85. The difference this time is that you can't go over the 105 limit. At one point back in the day Ohio State had 105 on scholarship about 285 on the team. Those additional players were all walkons and simply practice fodder for the scholarship players. They just had bragging rights with their family and friends that they were on the OSU team. A few would eventually get scholarships as juniors or seniors, but it was mainly ego thing. Some of those players could have probably been starters or signficant contributors at other schools but they liked being part of the OSU brand. [/QUOTE]The reason behind the 105 roster limit is so the powers can concentrate their revenue sharing efforts on a smaller roster instead of having to spread it around 285 ways. With Title IX any increase in men's scholarships has to be matched on the women's side and the value of the scholarships is often an impediment. Ultimately 105 is 105 and whether the players are paid a full scholarship or they are receiving a royalty doesn't matter. Roster spots on a P4 are going to be tighter since they'll spend to retain their valuable players and then spend in the portal for upper classman at smaller programs.
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There's more. Football programs now can give partial -- or, equivalency -- scholarships to members.
For example, as first reported here several months ago, Notre Dame is moving to fund 95 football scholarships as part of that institution's overall decision to add 19 new athletics scholarships across all sports in 2025-26.
Three other Power Conference general managers, who asked their schools to not be named, also told FootballScoop that they would fund "at least 95" scholarships moving forward.
Of additional note: increased scholarships moving forward count against the $20.5 million revenue-sharing distribution as part of the House Settlement.
Therefore, multiple programs who spoke to FootballScoop are increasing funding up to 95 scholarships but not to the entire 105-scholarships limit in order to take that additional scholarship money and reinvest it in their rosters as part of the revenue-sharing disbursement.
In other words, if a school has to claim, for example, $800,000 of revenue-sharing funds for adding 10 additional scholarships, schools are pausing at that number rather than adding 20 additional scholarships at an example-cost of $1.6 million.
https://footballscoop.com/2025/06/23/ncaa-clears-way-for-...