Each year since 2008--is it the lack of play makers or offensive scheme or QB?

From CFBSTATS: Rank the top 50 players--I show OHIO in top 50 and list only the number of top 25 for the conference teams (stats only go back to 2008)

2008 #5 Chris Garrett, #44 Taylor Price, #47 LaVon Brazill
2008 players in the top 25 of the MAC
With 3: WMU and Kent
With 2: CMU, Akron, Ball, Buff, Toledo, EMU, Miami, BGSU
Also with one, Temple, NIU

2009 #8 LaVon Brazill, #9 Chris Garrett, #41 Taylor Price, #47 Terrence McCrae
2009 players in the top 25 of the MAC
With 3: Toledo, Temple
Also with 2: WMU, CMU, BGSU, Ball, Miami, Kent
With 1: Buffalo, NIU, Akron, EMU

2010 #34 Phil Bates, #36 Vince Davidson
2010 Players in the top 25 of the MAC
With 4: EMU!!!!
With 3: Miami, BGSU
With 2: Temple, Kent, Akron, CMU. WMU, and Toledo
With 1: NIU, Buffalo, Ball
also with zero: only OHIO

2011 #3 Donte Harden, #9 LeVon Brazill, #36 TT, #45 Riley Dunlap
2011 Players in the top 25 in the MAC
With 4: BGSU
With 3: WMU, NIU & Ball
Also with 2: Toledo, Temple, Miami
With 1: Buffalo, CMU, Akron, EMU
With Zero: Kent

2012 #8 Beau Blankenship, #25 Daz Patterson, #38 Donte Foster
2012 Players in the top 25 in MAC
With 3: Toledo & Ball
Also with 2: Kent, NIU, Miami, BGSU, EMU, WMU and Buffalo
With 1: CMU, Akron & UMass

2013 #18 Beau Blankenship, #24 Donte Foster, #42 Chase Cochran
2013 Players in the top 25 in the MAC
With 4: Ball
With 3: NIU
Also with 2: Buffalo, BGSU, Toledo, CMU, EMU, WMU, Kent
With 1: Akron, UMass

2014 #11 AJ Ouellette, #17 Daz Patterson
2014 Players in the top 25 in MAC
With 3: Toledo, Ball, WMU, NIU
Also with 2: Buffalo, CMU, UMass, BGSU
With 1: Kent, Akron, Miami
With Zero: EMU

2015 #26 Daz Patterson, #36 AJ Ouellett, Sebastian Smith #37,#45 Jordan Reid
2015 Players in the top 25 in the MAC
With 4: Toledo
With 3: BGSU, NIU, WMU, UMass
With 2: Ball, Buffalo
With 1: Kent, Akron
Also with Zero: only OHIO

And through 3 games (2 for Buffalo and Toledo)

2016 #26 Dorian Brown, #27 Maleek Irons and #30 Sebastian Smith
2016 others
With 4: NIU, Toledo
With 3: WMU
With 2: Ball, BGSU, Akron, CMU, EMU, Kent
With 1: Buffalo, Miami
Also with Zero: only OHIO


Of course the saying is defense wins championships.

Make your own conclusions.

All Purpose yards contain Kick-offs and punt return yardage. Bad teams return more kicks, sometimes 5-8 kicks per game. If your player averages 20ypr that's over 100 yards right there in just returning kick-offs. Then you add in any carries or catches they would normally have in a game as well.