Auburn football offensive lineman Gunner Britton compared the Tigers’ potential ceiling during the 2023 season to last season’s surprise College Football Playoff runner-up, TCU, which had leveraged the transfer portal during first-year head coach Sonny Dykes’ first recruiting cycle.
“So now with the portal, being able to kind of win now,” Britton said (h/t AL.com). “I believe it was TCU last year did a lot, where they added like 40-something guys from the portal, and everybody’s like, ‘What are they doing?’ And then they go play for a national championship and you’re like, ‘OK, well maybe there’s a method to the madness.