College Football

A blueshirt arrives unrecruited, gets a scholarship at the door and counts against next year’s class. The loophole and its post-House fate.

A greyshirt signs but delays enrollment until January – no class count, no eligibility clock. The mechanics, scenarios and the consent question.

Scholarships can’t be pulled mid-year for performance or injury – but renewal time is different. The protections, exceptions and post-House rules.

The House settlement’s revenue sharing: the $21.3M cap, the 22% formula, rev share vs NIL, the CSC and the roster-cap trade. Explained.

Guarantee games pay smaller programs six to seven figures for a one-off road date. The contracts, the price ladder and why both sides sign.

Contact, evaluation, quiet and dead periods decoded – what coaches can do in each, what never stops, and why the December dead period matters.

Official visits are school-paid and capped at 48 hours; unofficials are family-paid and unlimited. The rules, timing and signals, explained.

A preferred walk-on is recruited and guaranteed a roster spot – without a scholarship. How PWO status works, and what the 105-player cap did to it.

The House settlement replaced 85 scholarships with a 105-player roster cap – and eliminated scholarship limits entirely. The new rules, explained.

ESPN+ carries almost all of FCS football, with FloSports, NEC Front Row and HBCU Go as exceptions. The full 2026 platform map, tier by tier.