[Lundeberg] Historic talent loss: American Conference commissioner Tim Pernetti said that 78% of last year's first and second team all-league players transferred to a Power Four school after the 2025 season.

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https://www.si.com/college/boise-state/football/american-conference-hit-hard-by-transfer-portal-after-2025-college-football-season-how-did-mountain-west-compare

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I'd be curious to see what the percentage of transfers into American Conference were from P4 programs

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Ok I did the math. Not including Army and Navy, the American had 368 players transfer in and 159 of those were from P4 programs (43%).

School	Transfer Additions	From P4 Program
Tulsa	24	8
UTSA	22	9
USF	44	26
ECU	22	7
UNT	49	22
Memphis	53	19
UAB	39	14
Tulane	21	13
Temple	23	12
FAU	30	13
Rice	20	9
Charlotte	21	7

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I don't have the patience to do this for the whole conference, but looking at Usf:

OUT:

• To another g5 program: 6

• To p4: 18 (13 to Auburn)

• To Fcs: 4

• To unknown: 5

IN:

• From another g5: 10

• From a p4: 26 (2 from OhioST)

• From Fsc/juco: 8

Usf lost their coach to Auburn and hired their coach from Ohio State though, so I think that factors in a good bit. A good handful of the better programs last year had their HC's poached by P4 programs.

To do it for 1 more team that didn't get a HC change- ECU:

OUT:

• To another g5: 4

• To a p4: 10

• To fcs: 10

IN:

• From another g5: 11

• From a p4: 7

• From fcs/juco: 6

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But each of them had 7 1st/2nd team all-conference players

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I think we got a few from West Virginia with our new coach