[82lsju]

So I did some poking around on the transfer portal site

https://247sports.com/Season/2020-Footba...ferPortal/

by my estimate there are on order of 500 players in it currently (no I did not count them individually), last year it looks like there were on order of 1000 players so plenty more will join the portal in the coming weeks.

A rough SWAG says that ~10% of players entered the portal last year (using as my pool 130 teams x 80 players/team (10,400 players) who could have entered the portal - yes the 80 is just a SWAG but for many teams would seem to me to be about the number of players with at least one year of remaining eligibility, either on scholarship or walk-ons without a scholarship)

I looked at some other programs to see how many players they lost in the portal last year (gross number who entered the portal and either transferred or did not transfer/did not return to their original school.  On casual inspection relatively few return to their original school, they appear to either transfer or not continue with school elsewhere)

- Alabama 9
- Ohio State 10
- Michigan 18 (that is not a typo)
- C.a.l 9
- Washington 7
- Oregon 9
- Oklahoma 10

so while our 11 so far this year is a lot more than the 2 last year it does not seem all that out of line compared to some other programs.

I would image that at least some players on teams with bowl games might wait until after their bowl game to enter the portal which is probably why there are only ~500 in the portal today vs ~1000 last year.

[82lsju]

So I did some poking around on the transfer portal site

https://247sports.com/Season/2020-Footba...ferPortal/

by my estimate there are on order of 500 players in it currently (no I did not count them individually), last year it looks like there were on order of 1000 players so plenty more will join the portal in the coming weeks.

A rough SWAG says that ~10% of players entered the portal last year (using as my pool 130 teams x 80 players/team (10,400 players) who could have entered the portal - yes the 80 is just a SWAG but for many teams would seem to me to be about the number of players with at least one year of remaining eligibility, either on scholarship or walk-ons without a scholarship)

I looked at some other programs to see how many players they lost in the portal last year (gross number who entered the portal and either transferred or did not transfer/did not return to their original school.  On casual inspection relatively few return to their original school, they appear to either transfer or not continue with school elsewhere)

- Alabama 9
- Ohio State 10
- Michigan 18 (that is not a typo)
- C.a.l 9
- Washington 7
- Oregon 9
- Oklahoma 10

so while our 11 so far this year is a lot more than the 2 last year it does not seem all that out of line compared to some other programs.

I would image that at least some players on teams with bowl games might wait until after their bowl game to enter the portal which is probably why there are only ~500 in the portal today vs ~1000 last year.