Early Signing Day Recap with Brandon Huffman | College Football

The Solid Verbal College Football

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🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

With the Early Signing Period in the rearview mirror, we touch base with our good friend Brandon Huffman of 247sports.com to recap the biggest storylines in the wake of college football's first milestone of the current recruiting cycle. In this episode, we talk through the challenging aspects of the college football calendar, the role of agents in the process, and the death of the National Letter of Intent (NLI). We also take a look at how recruiting philosophies have changed in the era of NIL and revenue sharing, whether the transfer portal has created more parity, Brandon's favorite players in the 2026 recruiting class, and the state of talent acquisition in the Power Four and Group of Six, and much more.

Timecodes:
0:00 - Intro
3:33 - Interview with Brandon Huffman
1:20:08 - Closing Thoughts

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:06.2	Welcome to the solid verbal.
0:08.1	The solid verbal.
0:09.1	Come after me.
0:10.8	I'm a man.
0:11.8	I'm 40.
0:12.6	I've heard so many players say, well, I want to be happy.
0:15.1	You want to be happy for a day?
0:16.7	Eat a steak.
0:17.6	It's that woo-woo.
0:19.2	And now, down and tie.
0:23.1	Dan Rubinstein.
0:25.1	Welcome back, my friend.
0:26.2	How are you?
0:27.3	I'm good.
0:27.8	Very excited for this show as I am.
0:29.3	Every time we talk recruiting during the, I guess, early signing period or sort of between
0:34.4	early signing period and National Signing Day.
0:36.3	Obviously, we're having Brandon Huffman on the show because he's the best and he is an annual tradition.
0:42.2	I'm good.
0:43.0	You know, it's heated up here.
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