Arizona State, Indiana and SMU proved it's possible in 2024. If you can make all the right moves in transfer portal recruiting, you can shock the world with a team talented enough to make a run all the way to the College Football Playoff.

Which programs have an opportunity to do the same thing in 2025? Let's dig into the numbers. In this new era of unlimited transfers, the portal is more essential to roster construction than ever before. This offseason, Power 4 programs added more than 13,000 career starts and more than 930,000 career snaps of Division I experience to their rosters via the portal.

As these programs scour the lists of thousands of players who enter the portal in December and April, they're searching for players who bring proven experience. Curt Cignetti won 11 games in hi

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