Yahoo Sports national columnist Dan Wetzel and senior college sports reporter Ross Dellenger are joined by Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde to discuss the effects of the new roster limit rule throughout college football. Hear the full conversation on the “College Football Enquirer” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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What do we think the 105 scholarships will do?

Hm, how many, uh, what we've seen the last couple of years is a, is a, is a lot of parity.

Uh coming in more parity, not full obviously, but certainly amongst the top 40 or 50 schools, there's a bigger gap between power five and group of five, but the group of five, a lot of the best of the group of five have already been sopped up into the, there's more power five teams too now.

Power four Biden.

So what we've seen is kids, kids don't wanna sit, they wanna play.

Does that hurt the big 12?

The AC C and everybody else or are the, these schools just gonna end up training, feeding, weightlifting, freshman and sophomore?

Are they gonna bail and go anyway?

It's a good question because that dynamic has changed dramatically over the years because, you know, from the 19 eighties onward, what you heard was that the scholarship limitations when they were dropping scholarships from, you know, 100 to 100 and 1985 that, that stopped Alabama and Nebraska and Oklahoma from stockpiling a gazillion players.

But as you said, now with the immediate transfer rules, how long are you stockpiling them for?

You stockpile them for a year and then they're going and starting somewhere else.

We're gonna, we're gonna talk about SMU, but, I mean, SMU moved into the AC C and largely rebuilt their lines by getting transfers from Power Conference schools.

But in reality, if you're not doing anything with them, are you just setting them up to leave anyway?

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