The Fall of Spring Ball

Over half of the FBS colleges in Texas elected not to play a traditional spring game as a broken college football calendar and uncertainty about the future cloud the sport’s offseason. Most coaches point to the spring portal window as the main culprit for undermining the value of not only a spring game, but spring practices in general. 

Spring ball is a century-old tradition that allowed colleges to whip their rosters into shape and install schemes ahead of summer break. College football is now a year-long pursuit and players rarely leave campus in the summer. But it’s the revolving roster door that makes coaches apprehensive to invest too much time and energy into the 15 spring practices allowed by the NCAA.