Purdue Appreciation Thread

Do I need to be here for this conversation?

Dude, please don't jinx us and look ahead... please enjoy the moment and root for Michigan over Iowa in our FIRST trip to Indy for a FIRST possible B1G title!  That is all.

I read your first paragraph and up voted you, read your second paragraph and changed it to a down vote.

Yes. Purdue won that game. But we should be thanking the 95 million dollar career defensive coach who fielded the worst secondary possible. Without that, Purdue would not have been able to put up those points and OSU would not have looked like death star.

To Hell with MSU, they are not thread worthy.  If Purdue hadn’t pointed out that the new, $95M Emperor had no clothes, some other B1G lightweight (Nebby, e.g.) would have.  If it weren’t for the fact that insane boosters could have put that bale of filthy lucre to better use, I’d be hugging myself with glee knowing that MSU had written the stupidest contract in sports.

just to add to the original conversation. i looked at the tie breakers, and in the counterfactual where MSU beats Purdue, there would be a 3-way tie with MSU, OSU and us. those ties would go all the way to the 5th tiebreaker which looks at the record of the cross-divisional opponents.

MSU had Northwestern (1-8), Nebraska (1-8), and Purdue (would be 5-4 if lost to MSU), for a cumulative opponent record of 7-20.

OSU had Minnesota (6-3), Nebraska (1-8), and Purdue (would be 5-4 if lost to MSU), for a cumulative opponent record of 12-15.

Mich had Wisc (6-3), Nebraska (1-8), and Northwestern (1-8), for a cumulative opponent record of 8-19.

So w/o that purdue loss bumping MSU out of the 3-way tie scenario, OSU would have backed into the East championship even with the loss to us. yuck

Go Blue. Beat Iowa.

BOILER UP

MSU was inverse Nebraska this year.

They are a fraud that lucked into a bunch of close wins, relying on low probability events...not to mentions bs officiating against us.

Thank the universe for righting the wrong that was the officiating abomination in our game against them.

Swing and a miss.

This is football karma....  that was the make up for our hosing by the officials in EL. ....

I was happy about it! After what Purdue did to Iowa, I knew they could take down  State provided (nnt)Aiden came to play. And once again, all our goals were before us.

I'd rather have a "fuck the officials" thread. This team should be undefeated.

I have upvoted, not in disagreement with those down voting over thread bloat, they are correct.

However, I'm good with any thread that mentions Purdue's pasting of MSU and contains a thrice repeated listing of Scott Frost's 1 - 8 conference record this year. The only thing missing to make this sheer perfection is the obligatory side note that Football Outsider's FEI ratings has Nebraska ahead of MSU.  

Oh, wait, did I fix that?

  I come from that bygone era when each season’s goal was to win the Big Ten title and celebrate in the most spectacular bowl game, the Rose Bowl, in sunny California.  After all the bowl games were played, sportswriters and coaches would vote to rank the top teams of each season and name their “national” champion.
  Much has changed since: Big Ten expanded, became B1G split into divisions, conference winners meet to determine the Big Ten Championship; there was a 2 team BCS, now a 4 team CFP, and (perhaps soon) 8 or more teams will participate in the playoff for the National Championship.

Through all this change, and amid all the noise generated by the 24/7 sports media, my annual hope is that, at season’s end, the guys wearing maize and blue are Big Ten Champions.  My brain recognizes that a B1G East co-champion could miss the opportunity to play for the conference championship and still make the CFP, with an extra week off to rest and heal.  But, to me, that feels like entering through a side door, almost like being born on third base.

I was elated by Purdue’s defeat of the Spartans, because I was pretty sure that OhioSt would do the same in Columbus.  This meant that *if* Michigan could win out, they’d be headed to the B1G Championship game for the first time.  I guess, this is a long winded way of saying: I really enjoyed this season, especially the gutsy win last Saturday, and the guys in maize and blue are one game away from their first Big Ten Championship in too long.   Hail to the Victors Valiant!

Playoff and Big Ten title implications aside, hats off to Purdue for knocking MSU down a peg or two after the refs handed them the win over Michigan (if that Hutchinson TD had stood, I believe we would have cruised to the win).  Hell, hats off to OSU for exposing how much MSU had overachieved and been lucky.