Ohio State / Class of 2027
Recruiting Calendar
The NCAA has published three periods for August 1 - December 31, 2026, the stretch that decides Ohio State's 2027 class. Dead period, evaluation period, quiet period: what each one lets a coaching staff do, and what it means for the news you read on the commit board.
Source: the NCAA, Fall 2026-27 NCAA Recruiting Calendar, Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, stamped “Updated: July 30, 2026” and read September 23, 2026.
- August 1-31, 2026 31 days
Dead period
No in-person recruiting contact or evaluation is permitted, on or off campus, and no prospect may take an official or unofficial visit to campus.
The quietest month of the cycle. Nothing can happen on a campus visit, so a commitment announced now was decided earlier.
Moves we reported, dated in this window
- Aug 17 · OfferOhio State offered a running back on Monday, and he is in the 2028 class, not the one with none
- Aug 14 · ElsewhereBrayton Feister picks Oregon, and Ohio State's 2027 board has nobody left on it
- Aug 8 · CommitChristopher Vargas commits to Ohio State, and no two services list the same quarterback
- September 1 - November 29, 2026 90 days
Fall evaluation period
Coaches may go off campus to assess a prospect's academic qualifications and playing ability. They may not make in-person off-campus contact with him.
Coaches in the stands on Friday nights. Ohio State's staff gets 33 evaluation days across these three months, which is why senior film matters more than camp film from here.
33 evaluation days are allowed inside this window, 42 for the U.S. service academies.
Moves we reported, dated in this window
- Nov 28 · VisitKellan Hall moves his Ohio State visit from Maryland to the Michigan game
- Oct 10 · VisitTwo of the top five defensive linemen in the 2028 class are due at Ohio Stadium for Maryland
- Sep 26 · Visit, TennesseeDJ Jacobs spent Saturday in Neyland Stadium, and Rivals now names Tennessee as the program working hardest to flip him
- Sep 19 · VisitJordan Hall takes his Ohio State official visit Saturday, with one prediction already logged for the Buckeyes
- Sep 12 · Visit, GeorgiaDJ Jacobs spent Saturday in Sanford Stadium, and the page that keeps his visit log entered it as unofficial
Plus 4 more in the news archive.
- November 30 - December 31, 2026 32 days
Dead period
No in-person recruiting contact or evaluation is permitted, on or off campus, and no prospect may take an official or unofficial visit to campus.
The month the class closes. Every visit is already taken and every conversation happens by phone, which is why December news is signatures and flips rather than trips.
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The one period with no dates
Quiet period
When: The 48 hours before a home contest, through the 48 hours after it ends, for a home game in August or on September 1 or 2.
In-person recruiting contact is permitted only on the institution's own campus. No in-person off-campus contact or evaluation.
It attaches to a game rather than to a stretch of the calendar, so it has no fixed dates and moves with the schedule.
Signing day, and why there is no date on it yet
The NCAA has not published it. The NCAA's signing-dates document for this folder still carries the previous cycle's table: its own title line reads 2025-26 and it states Division I Football early period December 3-5, 2025 and regular period February 4, 2026, which are the 2026 class's dates. The 2027 class's dates are not published by the NCAA, and no outlet states them either.
The file that will carry it is the NCAA's signing-dates document, checked September 23, 2026. For scale, not as a prediction: the 2026 class signed December 3-5, 2025, with the regular period opening February 4, 2026. A December window would sit inside the November 30 - December 31, 2026 dead period, which is routine rather than a conflict, because signing is a document and not a visit.
We will print the dates the day the NCAA does, and not a day before. If you want them the morning they land, The Scarlet Wire is where they go first.
What the published calendar does not cover
Every period above has now passed. The NCAA had not published the spring half of this cycle's calendar when this page was last built, so there is nothing here for today. The dates below the fold are still accurate as a record of the fall.
The published document is the FALL calendar. Its month grids for January through July 2027 are drawn but unshaded, so the spring half of the cycle is not yet published.
So the spring 2027 contact and evaluation windows are not on this page. Nothing is estimated from last cycle's dates. Where Ohio State's 2027 class stands right now is on the commit board; what it still needs is on the needs page; the questions fans ask most are on the FAQ.
Questions readers ask
Can Ohio State recruits visit campus right now?
August 1-31, 2026 is a dead period. No in-person recruiting contact or evaluation is permitted, on or off campus, and no prospect may take an official or unofficial visit to campus. The next window in which coaches can go out and watch a prospect play is the fall evaluation period, September 1 - November 29, 2026.
When can college coaches watch 2027 recruits play?
The fall evaluation period runs September 1 - November 29, 2026. Coaches may go off campus to assess a prospect's academic qualifications and playing ability. They may not make in-person off-campus contact with him. Each staff gets 33 evaluation days inside that window (42 for the U.S. service academies).
When does the 2027 class sign?
The NCAA has not published the 2027 class's signing dates. Its signing-dates document for this cycle still carries the previous class's table, checked September 23, 2026. For scale, the 2026 class signed December 3-5, 2025, with the regular period opening February 4, 2026. We publish the date when the NCAA does, not before.
What is a dead period in college football recruiting?
No in-person recruiting contact or evaluation is permitted, on or off campus, and no prospect may take an official or unofficial visit to campus. There are two in the 2027 class's senior fall: August 1-31, 2026 and November 30 - December 31, 2026.
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