Football's Early Signing Period is a Go, How Will the Buckeyes be Impacted?


Urban Meyer has been opposed to previous proposals for an early signing period, but there wasn’t as much opposition to this version.Photo by Dan Harker We knew it was coming, but on Monday it was made official as the Collegiate Commissioners Association announced that they had voted to enact an early signing period in college football. This year, the three-day period will take place December 20-22 and coincide with the first three days of the junior college signing period. It will join the current signing period that begins the first Wednesday of February. An early signing period has been discussed for years now, and was thought to be coming prior to a vote in 2015. In the past year, there were even two early signing periods discussed, with one in June and one in December. The June proposal never got too far off the ground, which Ohio State head coach…

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