At the beginning of October, it was announced that the transfer portal window for all FBS and FCS players was moving from December to January.
Players now have to wait until January 2 to enter their names in the transfer portal, and the window remains open until January 16.
The transfer portal opens right after the conclusion of the College Football Playoff Quarterfinals, and any players on teams still competing in the CFP are granted an extra five days.
The change follows the Division I Administrative Council's elimination of multiple transfer windows in favor of a single window for the entire year.
As changes continue for the transfer portal, it remains a "crapshoot" for Iowa Head Coach Kirk Ferentz.
During Ferentz's weekly press conference, he said that the new single-window transfer portal makes it harder to evaluate players and feels more like "blind dating."
It was already hard to evaluate the thousands of players and the potential fit for the program, but one window makes it even harder.
Ferentz also called it a "crapshoot" because you never know if the players you want will truly fit into your system.
He brought up wide receiver Jacob Gill as an example of a player who everyone feels has been in the system for only two years, but it feels like five because of how well he has fit in.
In a candid moment, he also likened the transfer portal to social media dating, stating that he has "heard it works sometimes."
Ferentz has never fully embraced the transfer portal, and made his feelings about the process known once again this week.