Among the many faults of this team are excessive penalties. But this is nothing new. It's been that way for at least the last 14 seasons. Half of them in the top-10 in penalties per game.
National rank most penalties per game (out of about 130 teams):
Foster
2025 #5
2024 #8Kelly
2023 #10
2022 #51
2021 #26
2020 #33
2019 #33
2018 #36Mora
2017 #5
2016 #41
2015 #6
2014 #12
2013 #4
2012 #1
Now one can partially blame Pac-12 refs for calling excessive penalties for some of these numbers. Many of the Mora seasons had several conference teams highly ranked for most penalties. However, just the opposite with Foster. Last season many Big-10 teams were highly ranked for fewest penalties per game.