COLUMBIA, Mo. — It’s harder than ever, in college sports, to pinpoint when a team’s season is over.
The national championship football game will be played on Jan. 20, 2025, wrapping up all campaigns at that point. But the transfer portal will have opened and closed long — by fast-paced sports standards — before that point.
Many power conference programs will play their final game of the season around the end of the calendar year, trekking to bowl games that aren’t what they used to be with rosters that aren’t what they were just a few weeks prior.