2022 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

2022 Big Ten Conference football standings
	East Division
	West Division
	Championship: December 3, 2022
	As of March 24, 2022; Rankings from AP Poll

2022 Penn State Nittany Lions football
2022 Penn State Nittany Lions football
Conference	Big Ten Conference
	East Division
Head coach	James Franklin (9th season);
Offensive coordinator	Mike Yurcich (2nd season)
Defensive coordinator	Manny Diaz (1st season)
Co-defensive coordinator	Anthony Poindexter (2nd season)
Home stadium	Beaver Stadium; (Capacity: 106,572)
Uniform
	Seasons ← 2021 2023 →

The 2022 Penn State Nittany Lions football team will represent Pennsylvania State University in the 2022 NCAA Division I FBS football season as a member of the Big Ten Conference. The team will be led by ninth-year head coach James Franklin.^[1]

Previous season[]

The Nittany Lions had a promising start to the season, going 5–0 and beating a ranked Wisconsin and Auburn, to reach number 4 in the AP poll. However during their game against #3 Iowa, quarterback Sean Clifford was injured, stalling all momentum they had, allowing Iowa to come back and beat them 23–20. The next week they played an unranked Illinois to hopefully regain momentum ahead of playing rival Ohio State on the road, however they lost in a record breaking 9OT. The Nittany Lions would then lose the next four of their last six games, finishing their season at 7–6 after losing to Arkansas in the Outback Bowl.

Offseason[]

Transfers Out[]

Player	Position	Destination
Tyler Rudolph	S	University Of Massachusetts
Enzo Jennings	S	Unknown
Des Holmes	OL	Arizona State
Ta'Quan Roberson	QB	UConn
Norval Black	WR	Unknown
Joseph Appiah Darkwa	DL	Temple
Justin Weller	WR	Unknown
Noah Cain	RB	LSU
A.J. Lytton	CB	Unkown

Transfer References^[2]

Transfers In[]

Player	Position	Transferred From
Hunter Nourzad	OL	Cornell
Mitchell Tinsley	WR	Western Kentucky

Transfer References^[3]

Recruiting[]

Going into the 2022 season the Nittany Lions has the #6th overall recruiting class in the country and the #2 overall in the Big Ten.^[4]

Stars	Player	Position
5	Nick Singleton	RB
	Drew Allar	QB
	Dani Dennis-Sutton	DL
4	Kaden Saunders	WR
	kaytron Allen	RB
	Jerry Cross	TE
	Zane Durant	DL
	JB Nelson	OT
	Drew Shelton	OT
	Mehki Flowers	ATH
	Anthony Ivey	WR
	Cristian Driver	S
	Ken Talley	Edge
	Cam Miller	CB
	Abdul Carter	LB
	KJ Winston	S

Recruiting Reference ^[4]

Schedule[]

Date	Opponent	Site	TV
September 1	at Purdue	Ross-Ade Stadium West Lafayette, IN	Fox
September 10	*	Beaver Stadium University Park, PA
September 17	at Auburn*	Jordan-Hare Stadium Auburn, AL
September 24	*	Beaver Stadium University Park, PA
October 1	Northwestern	Beaver Stadium University Park, PA
October 15	at Michigan	Michigan Stadium Ann Arbor, MI
October 22	Minnesota	Beaver Stadium University Park, PA (rivalry)
October 29	Ohio State	Beaver Stadium University Park, PA (rivalry)
November 5	at Indiana	Memorial Stadium Bloomington, IN
November 12	Maryland	Beaver Stadium University Park, PA (rivalry)
November 19	at Rutgers	SHI Stadium Piscataway, NJ
November 26	Michigan State	Beaver Stadium University Park, PA (Land Grant Trophy)
*Non-conference game

Schedule Source^[5]

Rankings[]

Ranking movements
	Week
Poll	Pre	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Final
AP
Coaches
CFP	Not released															Not released

References[]

^ "Football Schedule". FBSchedules.
^ "2022 College Football Transfer Portal". 247Sports. Retrieved 2022-03-05.
^ "2022 College Football Transfer Portal". 247Sports. Retrieved 2022-03-05.
^ ^a ^b "Penn State 2022 Football Commits". 247Sports. Retrieved 2022-03-06.
^ "2022 Football Schedule".

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[1] "Football Schedule". FBSchedules.

[2] "2022 College Football Transfer Portal". 247Sports. Retrieved 2022-03-05.

[3] "2022 College Football Transfer Portal". 247Sports. Retrieved 2022-03-05.

[:0-4] "Penn State 2022 Football Commits". 247Sports. Retrieved 2022-03-06.

[5] "2022 Football Schedule".

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2022 Penn State Nittany Lions football

Conference	Big Ten Conference
Division	East Division
Head coach	James Franklin (9th season)
Offensive coordinator	Mike Yurcich (2nd season)
Defensive coordinator	Manny Diaz (1st season)
Co-defensive coordinator	Anthony Poindexter (2nd season)
Home stadium	Beaver Stadium (Capacity: 106,572)
Uniform

Seasons ← 2021 2023 →

2022 Big Ten Conference football standings
v t	Conf				Overall
Team		W		L		W		L
East Division
Indiana		0	–	0		0	–	0
Maryland		0	–	0		0	–	0
Michigan		0	–	0		0	–	0
Michigan State		0	–	0		0	–	0
Rutgers		0	–	0		0	–	0
Ohio State		0	–	0		0	–	0
Penn State		0	–	0		0	–	0
West Division
Illinois		0	–	0		0	–	0
Iowa		0	–	0		0	–	0
Minnesota		0	–	0		0	–	0
Nebraska		0	–	0		0	–	0
Northwestern		0	–	0		0	–	0
Purdue		0	–	0		0	–	0
Wisconsin		0	–	0		0	–	0
Championship: December 3, 2022
As of March 24, 2022; Rankings from AP Poll