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Spring games are a long-standing tradition in college football, giving fans an early look at their favorite teams before the fall season.. However, several programs have opted to cancel their 2025 ...

College football's offseason will look very different in 2025 and likely beyond, as teams look to forgo their spring games in the NIL and transfer portal era. / Marc Lebryk-Imagn Images In this story:

Texas is adjusting its practice schedule to an OTA-style model to try to mitigate some of the workload from an increased schedule in the 12-team College Football Playoff era. That means no spring ...

And Southern California has reportedly considered dropping its spring game. Not every school is changing. As of Thursday, about half of the 68 Power Four schools had publicly announced dates for spring games. Formats vary, with some schools holding traditional scrimmages and others conducting skills competitions and holding autograph sessions.

College Football: Overall view of Memorial Stadium during Nebraska Red-White spring game. Lincoln, NE 4/17/2010 CREDIT: Bill Frakes (Photo by Bill Frakes /Sports Illustrated via Getty Images) (Set ...

Since his decision, a handful of college football programs across the country have called off their spring games, citing different reasons. It remains to be seen what spring game formats will look like for programs with scheduled dates. Michigan held the first spring game open to the public in May 1925. The scrimmages have become a revenue ...

As an expanded playoff adds full-speed games to the college football season, multiple major programs are moving away from the traditional offseason scrimmage that caps spring practice. Via Sports Business Journal, both USC and Texas have ditched their spring games for 2025. Other Big Ten teams have canceled spring games, including Ohio State ...

The latest to change its spring game format is Auburn, which revealed new plans for the event on Tuesday. Instead of the typical A-Day spring game on April 12, the Tigers will hold an open ...

Plenty of college football teams won't play a spring game in 2025. But Memphis' Ryan Silverfield said he'd never considered canceling it. Here's why.

"College football is changing right now, and we need to do a great job as coaches of adapting." Sarkisian said in the past two years, Texas has played 30 games and had 25 players invited to the ...

A new wrinkle in the current day and age of college football is now set in motion — no more spring games.

However, changes in the college football landscape have led to them doing more bad than good for some teams. The spring transfer portal window first established for the 2022-2023 season has caused some teams to rethink the tradition. ... Sarkisian said the Longhorns canceled their spring game to give players a rest after making a deep run in ...

In 2024, in his first year as the Spartans head coach, Smith led the team to a disappointing 5-7 overall record while also going 3-6 in Big Ten games, which marked the program's third straight ...

But as the anti-spring game trend has been echoed by high-profile teams like Texas, Ohio State, USC, and Nebraska — Matt Rhule was at the forefront of this 2025 pre-spring movement to ditch the ...

Five major college football programs have officially canceled their spring games heading into the 2025 season. The college football landscape is changing - and quickly. As Name, Image and Likeness continues to provide players with opportunities to make real money, and the NCAA's transfer portal ...

The elimination of spring games at prominent programs, with more cancellations sure to follow, gives everyone in college football the chance to dump the December transfer portal window and emphasize late-spring, early-summer practice in preparation for the long regular season.

The coaches don’t want it to disappear completely. They want it to fit the current needs of college athletics. The Bobcats didn’t use all 15 practices and the “spring game” was more of a glorified open practice. “I still want to have spring ball,” Kinne explained. “I just don’t think you need 15 traditional practices and a ...

There might not have been a more stark attendance drop among schools that held a spring game than the one at Alabama. The estimated 10,000 to 15,000 that watched the A-Day festivities paled in ...

Spring football games are changing. The glorified scrimmages are typically a big event for college football programs. Some schools, like Nebraska, Alabama and Ohio State, have reached crowds of ...

Bu, college football has entered its Transfer Portal Era, where, seemingly, everything is changing, and it's starting to look like the Spring Game will soon be extinct.