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The Portal affect on Texas 2026 Schedule

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Texas State - 8 IN/20 OUT- https://247sports.com/college/lsu/season/2026-football/transferportal/?institutionkey=24240

Ohio State - 16 IN/34 OUT - https://247sports.com/college/lsu/season/2026-football/transferportal/?institutionkey=24046

UTSA - 19 IN/23 OUT - https://247sports.com/college/lsu/season/2026-football/transferportal/?institutionkey=24391

Tennessee - 18 IN/27 OUT - https://247sports.com/college/tennessee/season/2026-football/transferportal/?institutionkey=24106

OU - 15 IN/27 OUT https://247sports.com/college/oklahoma/season/2026-football/transferportal/

Florida (New Coach) - 25 IN/34 OUT https://247sports.com/college/florida/season/2026-football/transferportal/?institutionkey=24099

Ole Miss (New Coach) - 25 IN/21 OUT https://247sports.com/college/ole-miss/season/2026-football/transferportal/?institutionkey=24103

Miss ST - 24 IN/39 OUT https://247sports.com/college/mississippi-state/season/2026-football/transferportal/?institutionkey=24104

Mizzou - 25 IN/24 OUT https://247sports.com/college/missouri/season/2026-football/transferportal/?institutionkey=24024

LSU (New Coach) - 39 IN/37 OUT https://247sports.com/college/lsu/season/2026-football/transferportal/?institutionkey=24102

Arkansas (New Coach)- 40 IN/39 OUT https://247sports.com/college/arkansas/season/2026-football/transferportal/?institutionkey=24097

Aggys - 18 IN/17 OUT https://247sports.com/college/texas-am/season/2026-football/transferportal/?institutionkey=24029

 

Thats a lot of new players across the board and 25% of the teams will have new coaching staffs

Thanks for the numbers! Do you think this kind of turnover makes it easier or harder (than pre-portal era) to predict how good teams will be?

First instinct is it's harder, just with all the new faces.

But on the other hand: in the old days, your unknowns were your own backups from the previous year(s), and you'd known their *names* and heard "we really like this guy", but didn't have any actual *college game experience or tape*. In this portal era, when we're talking about the top of the sport, teams' new faces likely already have real college experience and tape.

So, perhaps there's more data now, to project how the top of the sport will perform, than in the pre-portal days. Thoughts? 

Edited by AZ Longhorn

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7 minutes ago, AZ Longhorn said:

Thanks for the numbers! Do you think this kind of turnover makes it easier or harder (than pre-portal era) to predict how good teams will be?

First instinct is it's harder, just with all the new faces.

But on the other hand: in the old days, your unknowns were your own backups from the previous year(s), and you'd known their *names* and heard "we really like this guy", but didn't have any actual *college game experience or tape*. In this portal era, when we're talking about the top of the sport, teams' new faces likely already have real college experience and tape.

So, perhaps there's more data now, to project how the top of the sport will perform, than in the pre-portal days. Thoughts? 

I think the thing that gets lost in all this huge roster turnover is continuity.  Take LSU for example, they got a great haul of players but they literally changed the whole team.  39 new players in the portal, another 17 in recruiting. Thats over 50% roster flip and a lot of them sre going to be starters. Trying to develop culture and cohesiveness is going to be hard.  When things go bad, what do they have to lean on?

 

 

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