Football Signing Limit Changes?

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NCAA committee looks to extend waiver that eliminates football signing limit

Keith Farner | 1 MINUTE AGO

An NCAA committee is seeking to extend a waiver through the 2024-25 academic year that eliminates the football signing limit.

 

This would continue to permit teams to sign an unlimited number of recruits as long as they stay at or under the 85 scholarship limit, Ross Dellenger of Sports Illustrated reported. The football oversight committee also introduced legislation to permanently eliminate the signing limit to allow schools to sign as many athletes as they want as long as they do not exceed the 85 in FBS and 63 in FCS limits.

 

This would be the second straight year the NCAA doesn’t proceed under the signing limit.

Previously, a 25-man limit was created in 2011 to curb oversigning that was most connected to the example when
Houston Nutt signed 37 recruits to his 2009 recruiting class at Ole Miss.

 

The transfer portal also made the limit obsolete as many programs lost more players to the portal than NCAA rules allowed them to replace.