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Giger: Schedule change a big break for Penn State

ALTOONA, Pa. -- Any outlook or prediction about the 2022 Penn State football season was always going to include the ridiculously difficult schedule over the first six games. It was so daunting that, no matter how good the Nittany Lions may or may not be, it seems unlikely they could escape the first half of the season with less than two or three losses, maybe more.

If that were indeed to happen, it could set into motion a sequence of events that would impact not only this year, but also the coming years, as well.

The first six games next season were set to be:

Sept.