Does anyone remember that this year - instead of scholarship limits - the NCAA set "roster limits" (and anyone on the roster can receive a full scholarship - if the school so chooses)
Those limits, to go into effect July 1, 2025, were supposed to set roster limits at 105 players, IIRC.
DI Board of Directors formally adopts changes to roster limits - NCAA.org
Of course, this is the NCAA remember, there was this - this completely nebulous and mendacious element to the "rule":
Anyone who thinks they can provide a cogent and concise explanation of what that means, and how that works, would likely be wrong. Of course, the NCAA has a "working group" established to try and decode their own rules (seriously). Good luck.
But pages 11-13 of this document will help to enlighten. Cliff's Notes: The system is ripe for gaming, and is being gamed around the country.
June2025D1Gov_PhaseThreeInstSetQuestionandAnswer.pdf
I believe that the SEC - and probably the Big Ten, and likely every conference - put together "training sessions" a few months before this legislation was finalized, to train their coaches on how to game the system (I think the SEC said the training was designed to make sure they were not placed at a competitive disadvantage, which is a fair enough term. I think)
As of today, IIRC, PSU has something like 125 players on their official roster.
I think Nevada is at 105. But someone can count them here:
2025 Football Roster - University of Nevada Athletics
It is likely that the other Big Boys - OSU, Texas, etc - did the same gaming of the system (but one would have to check). The cost? Probably an extra couple million, all in, maybe a little more - but it gives their coaches a rather sizable advantage (an extra 10-20 players or more on the roster), especially as the season goes along and injuries and attrition set in.
Just another thing to love wrt the current state of sub-NFL pro football.
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