“transfer portal”
The transfer system, and by extension the act of leaving a program through it.
Literal — the NCAA Transfer Portal, which became a verb almost immediately.
How often it gets said
Daily mentions across the whole conversation corpus, smoothed over 7 days. A break in the line is a stretch where the word fell below the reporting floor — not a stretch where nobody said it.
Measured on 84 of the window’s 84 days.
- 1Sun Nov 1
- 2Thu Aug 20 · 27% of mentions named Ole Miss
- 3Sun Oct 4
A day is attributed to a program only when that program held at least 1.75× the next program’s mentions, from 5+ separate posts. The game shown is that program’s result within a day of the peak. A day with no program named was a day nobody owned.
Who’s saying it
Share of the posts, articles and transcripts in the window that used the word, by kind of source. Counted per document, not per mention, so one long transcript that says it twenty times is one voice, not twenty.
Most of the posts, articles and transcripts using “transfer portal” come from Reddit (51%), then beat writers and press (19%).
- Reddit 51%
- beat writers and press 19%
- YouTube 13%
- podcasts and radio 9%
- message boards 4%
- campus papers 3%
What it sounds like
Real posts from the corpus, quoted verbatim. The community is shown; the username never is.
“This wasn't current area. It was before nil and transfer portal. Your comment is off base”
“Right and unlike last year at least this year we have a top opponent in November so this (as Free says) is the guaranteed opportunity to prove we belong. There is no room for excuses IMO with this team.”
“If Fahey sucks in the first half vs Oregon, yes then you play TSC. But regardless of this season, they must get a big time portal QB in the offseason and likely a capable back up as well.”
Who it gets said about
2026 season, FBS programs. These are mentions that name a program — from rival fans and national media as readily as from their own people — so this is what the sport says about a program, not what that program’s fans say.
The sport says “transfer portal” about every program at about the same rate, so a ranking of it would just be a ranking of which programs get talked about most. That isn’t a finding, so this page doesn’t publish one.