This offseason, the cost of retaining top talent in college football increased significantly. Power 4 programs determined to compete at the highest level in 2025 are planning to spend $15 million or more on their football rosters in the first year of the post-House settlement revenue-sharing era.
If you wanted to keep your best players out of the portal or the NFL draft, you had to pony up. Ohio State did what was necessary to get back Jack Sawyer, Emeka Egbuka, TreVeyon Henderson and several more senior leaders for another year. Together, they won a national championship last season.