How it works

Twice a day, Roster Watch reads the football roster page and the football staff page on the official athletics website of every FBS program (138 in 2026) and compares them with the last time it looked.

Added means a name appeared on the page. Off page means a name that was listed is no longer listed, confirmed on two checks in a row so a glitch on the school's site does not show up as a departure. Number, position, class, height, weight and staff title changes are logged when both the old and new values are on the page.

A name coming off a roster page has many causes: a transfer, a medical retirement, a roster limit cut, a walk-on leaving, or the school tidying its page. Roster Watch reports what the official page shows. It does not report why.

When a school replaces its whole roster at once, usually when it posts the next season's roster, those changes are grouped into one line in the feed.

Coverage shows which schools are reading cleanly right now.