The Collegiate Commissioners Association has approved the 72-hour early signing period for college football prospects.
This year’s three-day window will be Dec. 20-22, which coincides with the first three days of the junior college signing period. The juco signing period runs through Jan. 15, 2018.
The CCA was the last legislative hurdle following last month’s approval from the NCAA Division I Council.
“I think having a mid-December signing date certainly allows some guys who know where they want to go and want to end recruiting to be able to do that,” Alabama coach Nick Saban said earlier this year. “It also affords the midyear players, which there are more and more of, to be able to sign and end recruiting a little early.”
Miami, Penn State and LSU have the top three classes in the 247Sports.com rankings for the 2018 recruiting cycle, with those three programs already having combined for 45 nonbinding commitments.