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Penn State Football: 4 reasons Mike Yurcich’s offense will be more effective in 2022

By Chris Snyder

Penn State quarterback Sean Clifford takes off on the ground during the 2022 Blue-White game at Beaver Stadium on Saturday, April 23, 2022, in State College.Hes Dr 042322 Bluewhite
Penn State quarterback Sean Clifford takes off on the ground during the 2022 Blue-White game at Beaver Stadium on Saturday, April 23, 2022, in State College.Hes Dr 042322 Bluewhite /
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COLLEGE PARK, MARYLAND – NOVEMBER 06: Keyvone Lee #24 of the Penn State Nittany Lions runs with the ball against the Maryland Terrapins at Capital One Field at Maryland Stadium on November 06, 2021 in College Park, Maryland. (Photo by G Fiume/Getty Images)
COLLEGE PARK, MARYLAND – NOVEMBER 06: Keyvone Lee #24 of the Penn State Nittany Lions runs with the ball against the Maryland Terrapins at Capital One Field at Maryland Stadium on November 06, 2021 in College Park, Maryland. (Photo by G Fiume/Getty Images) /

Reason No. 3 – Easier Schedule

I know this isn’t exactly what a lot of Penn State Football fans want to hear, but the Nittany Lions will potentially have a much easier schedule this year than they did in 2021. At the end of the day, this will be a big factor in seeing the effectiveness of the offense.

Does anyone really care that their team plays an easier schedule when evaluating the offense? Not really. All they want to see is their team move the ball and score points, which is exactly what Penn State will have the opportunity to do in 2022.

For context, if you compile an average of the total yards per game allowed for each team the Nittany Lions played last season, you come up with 369.4. That comes out as a top 50 defense, which is about average.

Conversely, that same average of yards allowed per game for teams that Penn State Football is slated to play this upcoming season is 383.4, which is down almost 20 slots and barely cracks the top 70 in terms of total yards allowed.

That is a substantial difference.

The difference can mainly be attributed to this year’s schedule swapping out Wisconsin (No. 1), Iowa (No. 15), and Illinois (No. 47), for Purdue (No. 50), Northwestern (No. 102), and Minnesota (No. 3).

The sledding is always going to be tough in the Big Ten, especially when you play in the Big Ten East, but the grade of the terrain will definitely be slightly downhill when facing several defensively-challenged teams in the Big Ten West.

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