UTSA Roadrunners: Keys To The Season, Top Game, Top Transfer, Fun Stats
UTSA Roadrunners: Key To The 2022 Offense
Be more consistent with the yards per carry.
Nitpicking time for a running game that averaged 4.6 yards per carry and 184 yards per game, but the offense was a tad hit-or-miss on generating yards in chunks early on.
Everything kicked in over the second half of the year – you’re doing something right if you’re averaging 4.9 yards per pop against that San Diego State defense – and the team won in the first half even without the big production. Even so, the offense failed to hit four yards per carry five times.
Now the ground game doesn’t have Sincere McCormick to carry the load. There are other good options, but for a running game that averaged 5.2 yards per pop in 2020, there’s still a little room to bump up.
UTSA Roadrunners: Key To The 2022 Defense
Tighten up the pass defense a bit.
Granted, teams threw to try keeping up the pace with the UTSA offense and to stay in games, and go ahead and blow off the outliers like the 1,100 yards given up in two games to the high-powered WKU passing game. However, the secondary allowed a few too many big plays.
The overall numbers weren’t all that bad, but eight of the last 11 teams on the schedule hit eight yards or more per pass and gave up multiple touchdown passes nine times.
Only 14 teams allowed more yards per pass. Getting that to around 7.5 yards per pop and life will be a whole lot easier.
UTSA Roadrunners: Key Player To The 2022 Season
PK Jared Sackett, Sr.
Hunter Duplessis was a huge part of the success last year.
He hit all 63 of his extra points attempt and 24-of-30 field goals in a First Team All-Conference USA season. He was a key part of the 31-28 win over Memphis, he played a big role in both wins against WKU, and the two field goals in the 34-31 win over UAB were a big deal.
Sackett started out his career at UTSA – he hit 33-of-41 field goals – left for Arkansas, took off for USF where he hit 5-of-7 field goals and didn’t play last year, and now he’s back with the Roadrunners.
If he can hit 19-of-22 field goals like he did in 2017, he’ll win UTSA at least two games.
UTSA Roadrunners: Key Transfer
RB Trelon Smith, Sr.
The Roadrunners have rushing options, but they don’t have Sincere McCormick around. A rotation would be nice, but a lead runner the caliber of Smith might keep the production going.
He started his career at Arizona State and didn’t do too much, but he was terrific in two years at Arkansas with 1,308 yards and ten scores, averaging over five yards per carry. There’s a whole lot of tread on the tires to be a workhorse as well as a dangerous all-around back.
UTSA Key Game To The 2022 Season
at UAB, Nov. 5
It was the moment when UTSA showed it really was the best team in Conference USA. Sure, the two wins over WKU were a big deal – actually winning the C-USA Championship proved that – but the 34-31 win over UAB to get to 11-0 was special.
This time around it’s coming off a week off, and considering WKU has to come to the Alamodome, this might be the only time in conference play that UTSA is the underdog.
UTSA Roadrunners: 2021 Fun Stats
– Penalties: Opponents 112 for 906 yards – UTSA 71 for 713 yards
– Sacks: UTSA 33 for 254 yards – Opponents 21 for 130 yards
– Kickoff Returns: Opponents 43 for 1,004 yards – UTSA 8 for 198 yards
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