The Portal affect on Texas 2026 Schedule

Rocky P · 2026-01-23T20:14:08Z

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

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

LonghornFan4Ever · 2026-01-23T20:23:55Z

Gotta win at least 10 of those games to go dancing.

davisxcole · 2026-01-23T21:56:14Z

Does that say 39 out for Miss St

Shane · 2026-01-23T22:03:31Z

Thanks for sharing Rocky ! 🤘🏻

AZ Longhorn · 2026-01-24T17:50:42Z

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 1 hour ago by AZ Longhorn

Rocky P · 2026-01-24T18:03:21Z

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?

Rocky P · 2026-01-24T18:04:42Z

@Bobby Burton @CJ Vogel @Gerry Hamilton @Jeff Howe

Would love to hear your take.when you see the portal affect for the teams on texas schedule.

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