The portal is closed and all the underclassmen that are going to the NFL have declared for the draft. This week I will be posting the All-Conference players from 2024 and note which ones are returning and which ones are gone. Now if an All-conference player has transferred to another conference, I list him as GONE even if they are returning to play college football in 2025. Yes, the transfer portal has made things tough to keep track of. Here are the last two conferences I am posting completing the nine leagues.

                  I realize that after the portal opens a second time in April some of these players will be moving on, but this is my February List. I am asking for your help. If you see a player that I have listed as coming back to his team this year and you know he is gone, please let me know. Also, if I list a player as lost but they are coming back also let me know. You can email media@philsteele.com with any corrections of just give me a tweet letting me know.

                  Here is the SEC and I have HIGHLIGHTED the returning players and they are in black type while the players that are no longer on their teams are in red type. In previous blogs I have pointed out that in this era of the transfer portal the Group of Five conferences took heavy hits not only losing seniors but losing their star players. The top G5 league had eight 1^st team players back. The Power 4 conferences have players leaving early for the NFL draft (more than the G5) so they do not have a ton more of first teamers coming back. The SEC has seven 1^st team players back, ten 2^nd team and thirteen 3^rd team retuning.

                  Here are the ACC players returning and lost all conference players. I have HIGHLIGHTED the returning players, and they are in black type while the players that are no longer on their teams are in red type. The ACC has eight 1^st team players back and eleven 2^nd team players but just nine 3^rd teamers back. They have also added all Conference players from other leagues which I will add into the numbers when I finish the page 28 chart in June. Since this is the last conference I want to remind you go let me know if you have any players that are lost that I have returning and vice versa.

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