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There are six teams you could make an argument for as the biggest winner of the 2025 college football winter transfer portal window, and there are lots of ways to look at the team class rankings — most commits, highest average of commits, best players at specific needs, etc.
For my money — and also in line with the 247Sports Transfer Team Rankings for 2025, so far — the biggest winner of the cycle was Brian Kelly’s LSU Tigers.
RankTeamTotal CommitsPoints1LSU1469.402Texas Tech1767.523Ole Miss1564.804Auburn1461.885Texas A&M1055.306Mississippi State1854.107Florida State1151.408Kentucky1449.989Wisconsin1649.6310Missouri1349.41
Pick a roster hole and LSU got better.
“What they’ve been able to do, I think, is really, really encouraging from somebody that follows the program, and seems like a team Year 3 under Brian Kelly that had a lot more holes than you would expect,” said 247Sports national scouting analyst Cooper Petagna. “But from a roster-management standpoint, I think they’ve done a good job to plug a lot of those questions marks going into the offseason and obviously still some work left to do.”
The Tigers had to replace several key contributors from the nation’s sneaky-best most consistent pass rush unit — LSU finished first nationally in pressure rate — so they added the portal’s No. 1 edge rusher Patrick Payton along with another four-star edge Jack Pyburn. There’s also former Nebraska edge Jimari Butler, who’s posted 16 TFLs over the last two seasons. Blake Baker’s defensive scheme relies on edge players who can get home. LSU got plenty of them in the portal. The Tigers are getting Harold Perkins Jr. back in 2025, too. We’ll see how he plays and how he’s utilized coming off an ACL injury and after two seasons of inconsistent play, but…
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Author : Chris Hummer
Publish date : 2025-01-02 16:18:00
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