The 2026 spring transfer portal window opened April 1 and closed April 10. Across those ten days, 312 FBS players entered. Of those, 218 had committed to a new program by April 24. The window was — by the only metric that matters, namely players who actually moved — the second-biggest in college football history, behind only the December 2024 window.
Nobody covered it. The draft was the same week. Every column slot in the sport went to the draft. The window happened in the dark.
What moved: 73 players to the SEC, 49 to the Big Ten, 28 to the Big 12, 17 to the ACC, 11 to the G5. The leaks at the bottom of the chart are the story. The ACC lost more players than it gained. The G5 lost more than half of what it took in last December.
We are watching the consolidation. The SEC and the Big Ten now have, between them, 41% of the FBS scholarship inventory by talent-weighted 247 grade. Two years ago that number was 33%.
The window mattered more than the draft did, for the next twelve months of college football. We just didn't write about it that way while it was happening.