NCAA rules cap signees at 25 per year. In this recruiting cycle, Florida can sign as many as 27. How is that possible?
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The three caps
Forgive me, but we have to get into NCAA jargon to sort this out. There are two NCAA caps: one on counters, and one on initial counters.
“Counters”, as in head count, are players on scholarship. An FBS team can have no more than 85 of them enrolled at a time.
“Initial counters” (ICs) are players receiving a scholarship for the first time from a school.