Virginia Football Has Top 25 Transfer Class After Latest Commitment

Posted by author January 11, 2025 Football

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In this era of college football, the transfer portal is everything. Those that win the transfer portal are the ones who end up winning on the field. Some big-time donations at the end of the year helped the Cavaliers “even the odds” to an extent in terms of NIL offerings and Tony Elliott and the Virginia coaching staff have gone to work this offseason to address the team’s biggest positional needs and improve the roster across the board.

Following Friday’s commitment from Louisville offensive lineman transfer Monroe Mills, who was an All-ACC honorable mention and the highest graded offensive tackle in the ACC according to Pro Football Focus in 2024, Virginia now has a top 25 incoming transfer class according to the recruiting outlets 247Sports (25th) and Rivals (24th) and the No. 32 transfer class according to On3.

247Sports has Virginia ranked at No. 5 in the Atlantic Coast Conference in terms of incoming transfers, trailing only Wake Forest, Louisville, Miami, and Florida State. 247Sports assigns a star classification (three-star, four-star, five-star) for each transfer as they have done historically for high school recruits, but it doesn’t seem like they’re giving anyone in the transfer portal a five-star rating. The vast majority of transfers are three-stars and there are just a handful of four-stars. There is also a point system for each school’s total recruiting class, but it’s a little bit complicated as the team’s point total goes through a formula that adjusts for total number of commits so as not to heavily reward teams that have many more commitments than others.

Here are the current team transfer portal rankings for the Atlantic Coast Conference, according to 247Sports.

Florida State: 16 commits, 59.32 points
Miami: 10 commits, 55.34 points
Louisville: 19 commits, 44.06 points
Wake Forest: 20 commits, 41.51 points
Virginia: 16 commits, 40.83 points
North Carolina: 14 commits, 40.25 points
Virginia Tech: 17 commits, 40.25 points
SMU: 11 commits, 38.69 points
California: 17 commits, 37.61 points
Georgia Tech: 16 commits, 37.60 points
NC State: 10 commits 29.06 points
Duke: 7 commits, 28.45 points
Boston College: 10 commits, 27.48 points
Stanford: 9 commits, 26.66 points
Pittsburgh: 8 commits, 24.17 points
Syracuse: 7 commits, 18.68 points
Clemson: 3 commits, 16.65 points

Of course, this recruiting data is largely an educated guessing game and it remains to be seen how all of these transfer classes will actually impact each team’s performance on the field next season. But the initial results suggest that Virginia has significantly improved its roster with its transfer haul so far and the Hoos might not be done yet.

Virginia has landed 16 transfer commitments from the portal this offseason:

Keep track of all of UVA’s transfer portal activity, including outgoing and incoming transfers, here: Virginia Football Transfer Portal Tracker

Stay up to date on all of the transfers who have received offers from Virginia or who have scheduled visits to UVA here: Tracking UVA Football’s Offers and Visits in the Transfer Portal

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