105 is college football's new key roster number. What will it change?
The new system allows schools flexibility to decide how many scholarships within the roster limit they want to give out.
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2025 MBB scholarship limit raised to 15
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Agree, you can't find enough playing time to keep 13 players on scholarship happy, how are you going to do that with 15?
This is meaningful if it includes the number of walk ons permitted. With NIL the scholarship limits are not meaningful since a recruit can be paid well beyond what a scholarship can offer. Not sure what will happen with the Ivy Leagues which in the past did not offer athletic scholarships. Wonder if we will see a billionaire Ivy League graduate fund NIL to such an extent that the team could become a national title contender.
It is a roster cap. 105 including scholarship, partial and no scholarship players.
Regarding Ivy League becoming a national champion in football, it is highly unlikely. As a parent of a HS player looking to get into Ivy football, there is a pre-read process in which an Ivy League school asks to see your education transcript, ACT/SAT scores and school profile. This vetting takes place to ensure you are in the ballpark academically to make it into the school. It is doubtful that there are enough 4 star and 3 star players in the country who score over 1300 SAT/33 ACT to fill out a 85-105 player roster.
Could it be done in basketball, maybe but it is highly unlikely that you could find enough 5 and 4 star players in basketball to prequalify into an Ivy.
You do see it in other sports regularly though (rowing, fencing)
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I would use the extra scholarships on raw undeveloped late bloomer and see if I can develop them …..
The problem is you'd probably be developing them for another program. Kinda like what mid-majors are doing now. You bring 'em to a level in which they can play a role... and poof, they're gone.
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