NCAA removes school limits for official visits in 2024-25 recruiting cycle

The NCAA has made a significant change to its recruiting rules for the rest of the 2024-25 recruiting cycle.

The NCAA has issued a blanket waiver to remove the limit on the number of official visitors that an FBS program can host. Previously, the limit for every program was 70 per recruiting cycle.

Effective immediately, there’s no longer a limit to the number of official visitors a program can bring to campus for the 2024-25 recruiting cycle. The current waiver is set to expire on March 31, 2025 — the final day of the current cycle.

Here’s an excerpt from the NCAA’s press release explaining why this change was requested — and ultimately made by the NCAA — from the Division I FBS oversight committee:

“The committee requested the waiver to provide schools additional flexibility to address the impact of recent changes in NCAA legislation (immediate eligibility for undergraduate four-year college transfers and unlimited official visits for prospective student-athletes) and the intercollegiate environment.

Prospective student-athletes can visit a school as many times as they like for an unofficial (self-financed) visit, and a school can host a prospect for one official visit.”

Per the press release, the committee will “continue to review football official visits and assess the intercollegiate environment” before making the change permanent.

Spenser Davis

Spenser is a news editor for Saturday Down South and covers college football across all Saturday Football brands.