Ohio State transfer QB Air Noland joins South Carolina for 2025 football season

Air Noland, the former four-star Ohio State quarterback prospect, will transfer to South Carolina for the 2025 football season.

Former Ohio State quarterback hopeful Air Noland will play for South Carolina in 2025 as a football transfer, according to a report. / Adam Cairns/Columbus Dispatch / USA TODAY NETWORK

Former four-star Ohio State quarterback Air Noland will play for South Carolina in the 2025 football season as a transfer, according to On3 Sports.

The addition of Noland to the roster gives the Gamecocks an intriguing prospect to develop at quarterback behind presumptive starter LaNorris Sellers next season.

Noland emerged as the No. 10 quarterback in the winter transfer portal window when he came out, according to the 247Sports transfer player rankings.

Rumors emerged that Noland might transfer out of Ohio State during the summer, but his father said the quarterback planned to stay with the Buckeyes for the 2024 season.

At the time, it was believed that Noland would compete with Alabama transfer Julian Sayin for the starting quarterback position at Ohio State for the 2025 season after Will Howard leaves.

Noland emerged as a four-star prospect and the No. 5 ranked quarterback in the country, according to a consensus of the four national recruiting services.

Rivals calls Noland a five-star prospect and the No. 3 signal caller in his class nationally.

Over 52 games at Langston Hughes High School in Fairburn, Ga., Noland covered 10,164 yards passing while completing 68 percent of his attempts for 126 touchdowns and 25 interceptions.

His best outing came as a junior, when he hit 73.1 percent of his throws for 4,085 yards with 55 touchdowns and four interceptions, according to MaxPreps.

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How the college football transfer portal works

The NCAA Transfer Portal is a private database that includes the names of student-athletes in every sport at the Division I, II, and III levels. The full list of names is not available to the public.

A player can enter their name into the transfer portal through their school's compliance office.

Once a player gives written notification of their intent to transfer, the office puts the player's name into the database, and they officially become a transfer.

The compliance office has 48 hours to comply with the player's request and NCAA rules forbid anyone from refusing that request.

The database includes the player's name, contact information, info on whether the player was on scholarship, and if he is a graduate student.

Once a player's name appears in the transfer portal database, other schools are free to contact the player, who can change his mind at any point in the process and withdraw from the transfer portal.

Notably, once a player enters the portal, his school no longer has to honor the athletic scholarship it gave him.

And if that player decides to leave the portal and return to his original school, the school doesn't have to give him another scholarship.

(On3)

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