Trenton Luera (former college QB) explains how recruits/parents can tell when a college football scholarship offer is genuine. He advises that a real offer usually involves a personal phone call or explicit communication (graphic/message) stating an offer, and recommends asking whether the offer is "committable" — i.e., whether you could accept it immediately and have it honored, since teams sometimes list many prospects but have limited actual scholarships per position.
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If you're a recruit or parent going through the recruiting process and you're not sure how to tell if you actually just received a scholarship offer, this is how you do it. And this is coming from someone who's been through the process and is a former college football quarterback. So if you want more content like this, be sure to drop a follow for more. And also, if you want a free spreadsheet with 6000 plus college coaches emails, all you have to do is DM me the word email on Instagram and I'll send it to you for free. So the most obvious way to tell if an offer is real is they actually call you personally and tell you, hey, we're going to offer you a scholarship. Most of the time, if they don't explicitly tell you, hey, we're offering you a scholarship, or send you some kind of graphic that says, hey, we're offering you, then there's not really a scholarship offer being offered. And now another step I recommend you take once you receive an offer is ask is it committable? That means that if you really want to take it right now, could you say yes, commit to it? And would they actually honor that? Because sometimes what happens is they offer a bunch of guys on their board when only like if the number one, number two take it and you're number five on the board, realistically they're not going to take you because they only have so many scholarship offers for that position.