The ever-changing daily landscape of the transfer portal and NIL (Name, Likeness, Image) in the world of college football has brought excitement, anxiety and uncertainty. Some programs are still learning how to navigate these new wrinkles; others have a system in place to organize and implement.
We are three years into the new college football offseason system of the transfer portal and some teams have used it to great success. BetSouthCarolina.com, your home for efforts to legalize South Carolina sports betting, consulted the Transfer Portal Team Rankings at On3.com from 2022 to 2024 to find the programs that have worked the transfer portal the best in the past three offseasons. Note that 2024 rankings are as of Jan. 10 at noon Eastern. Here are the schools that have navigated successfully thus far.
Most Successful Teams In Transfer Portal
South Carolina Strong In Transfer Portal
If there were legal South Carolina sportsbook apps, customers at those sites might be surprised to find that one of their schools is a transfer portal success story even though that has not translated into a ton of victories on the field.
The South Carolina Gamecocks placed seventh in the Football Bowl Subdivision (and is one of four SEC programs listed) with a combined On3 Index Score of 67 points. That’s one ahead of SEC rival Kentucky (66).
The Gamecocks had the third highest score in 2022 with a 31 Index Score at the On3.com transfer portal rankings. That progress showed with an 8-5 overall record (4-4 SEC), a No. 19 final College Football Playoff ranking and an appearance in the Gator Bowl, all during head coach Shane Beamer’s second season at the helm.
But the Gamecocks had a minus-4 score in 2023. Their record reflected that in Beamer’s third season at the helm (5-7, 3-5), his first non-.500 record in Columbia. The other two SEC schools in the top 10 over this three-year span: Mississippi ranked second with 166 points and Arkansas rounded out the top five with 74 points.
Some of the key transfers into the South Carolina program for this upcoming season: Oklahoma redshirt senior quarterback Davis Beville; Sooners redshirt junior defensive lineman Aaryn Parks; Pittsburgh senior linebacker Bangally Kamara and Miami of Ohio junior wide receiver Gage Larvadain to name a few. South Carolina opens its 2024 season at home versus Old Dominion on Aug. 31.
