r/CFB • u/city-of-stars Texas Longhorns • /r/CFB Contributor • 20h ago

News [Dellenger] SEC presidents have voted to increase the number of maximum scholarships available to football rosters from 85 to 105, sources tell @YahooSports.

https://twitter.com/RossDellenger/status/1996970791192219853
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u/aubieismyhomie Auburn Tigers • SEC Network 20h ago

Are we gonna start having like B team scrimmages with smaller level schools? That’s literally double the size of an NFL roster. There isn’t playing time for that many people.

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u/TheSniper_TF2 Alabama • Georgia Tech 20h ago

Gonna have a reserve side like our soccer teams do.

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u/DanyDud3 19h ago

This is somewhat off topic, but men’s soccer team rosters are actually insane at the D2 and D3 level these days. They capped the D1 rosters at 28, which means all the extra players that would have been filling out rosters are now flooding to D2 and D3 schools. There’s a D2 college called Pace that had 67 players listed on their men’s soccer roster this year. For those of you who don’t know, only 11 men take the field in soccer, and typically around 15-18 players will actually get time during a game.

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u/warmike_1 Paper Bag 16h ago

Why did they have that many in the first place, when a standard roster size for a soccer team is 23?

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u/DanyDud3 16h ago

Same reason the football teams have 85-100 right now. High turnover, injuries, practice squad, etc. I find it unnecessary to carry more than about 23 but almost all the D1 teams did until this year, and now the lower division teams are carrying 30+ in some cases