When the NCAA allowed college athletes to transfer once without the penalty of having to sit out a year, players were offered an opportunity to seek fresh starts elsewhere while benefitting from the kind of unrestrained mobility coaches had enjoyed for decades.
One of the effects of that change, though, has been a widening gulf between college football ’s haves and have nots, with programs from the sport’s biggest, most powerful conferences routinely plucking standouts from lower-level schools that don’t have the platform or financial resources to hold on to them.
It’s a reality that has caused frustration for many, particularly those outside of the Power Four conferences. REQUIRED READING: What are the best college football games of Week1? We list the top 10
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