Transfer QB Michael Van Buren is choosing LSU for the 2025 football season

College football transfer quarterback Michael Van Buren announced via the portal that he intends to play for LSU in the 2025 football season.

Van Buren passed for 1,886 yards and accounted for 16 total touchdowns as the starting quarterback for Mississippi State last season.

He started eight games as a true freshman and completed 55 percent of his passes as the Bulldogs finished last in the SEC with an 0-8 conference mark and 2-10 overall record.

Van Buren had two 300-yard games, including a 306-yard performance with three touchdown passes in a 10-point loss to Georgia.

Van Buren was among nearly two dozen players who transferred from Mississippi State following a winless conference campaign since the winter transfer window opened.

Van Buren will likely be behind current starting quarterback Garrett Nussmeier, who announced his intention to return to LSU for the 2025 football season.

Van Buren has three years of NCAA eligibility remaining and is looking ahead to next season.

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The NCAA Transfer Portal is a private database containing the names of student-athletes in all Divisions I, II and III sports. The full list of names is not publicly available.

A player can enter his name into the transfer portal through his school’s compliance office.

Once a player communicates his intention to transfer in writing, the office enters the player’s name into the database and it is officially a transfer.

The compliance office has 48 hours to comply with the player’s request, and NCAA rules prohibit anyone from denying that request.

The database contains the player’s name, contact information, as well as information about whether the player has received a scholarship and whether he is a graduate student.

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

Once a player enters the portal, his school is no longer required to honor the athletic scholarship it awarded him.

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

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