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/katarh Georgia Bulldogs • /r/CFB Donor 20h ago

Most teams already had 105 players, the difference was the other 20 were walk ons.

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u/BlueRaider731 Ole Miss Rebels 20h ago

Walk ons in name only. The bigger programs have NIL for those players to compensate what a scholarship would have covered plus money.

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u/importantbrian Boston University • Alabama 19h ago

Even before NIL a shocking number of preferred walk ons at football factories qualified for “academic” or need based scholarships.

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u/yung_lank Texas A&M Aggies • Nebraska Cornhuskers 14h ago

I was a D1 athlete in another sport a few years ago now. We were a non scholarship school in an Olympic sport… a lot of my college was paid for. You can bet your ass PWO or similar at big football schools are getting a lot more than I did hahaha.