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Purdue and Illinois have a reasonable chance to win their next few games to basically set up the B1G-W division championship on November 12th in Champagne-Urbana.  But do we trust these teams to not drop a WTF game at some point this year?

Wisconsin has won 15 straight games against Purdue dating back to "The Fumble" curse of 2004.

This year actually looks like the year Purdue snaps the streak.  The Boilers have been great against the run without loading the box, and they finally have enough DL talent to constantly rotate, keeping bodies fresh.

On the offensive side, look out, Purdue now has a run game.  Mockobee has taken over the starting role and is averaging 5.7 ypc.  Combine that with one of the best passing games in the B1G and Brohm finally found some balance to throw at opposing defenses.

Of course, the game is in Madison so the streak just might continue.

Purdue and Illinois have a reasonable chance to win their next few games to basically set up the B1G-W division championship on November 12th in Champagne-Urbana.  But do we trust these teams to not drop a WTF game at some point this year?

Illinois already did. Their loss to Indiana gets more and more inexplicable each week.

Based on how PSU looked in Ann Arbor, Purdue's loss to the Nittany Lions might be theirs.

You make a good point about the PU at IL game on November 12 being a likely defacto B1G-W Championship Game. Not only are Purdue and Illinois co-leaders at 3-1, but their losses were non-divisional so they have a leg up in the tiebreakers if it should come to that. Let's look a little deeper at the rest of the West:

2-2 Nebraska is next but the Cornhuskers are 0-2 in the division with losses to Purdue and Northwestern. They have this week off but if they lose to Illinois next week they'll be pretty much finished at 2-3 in the league and 0-3 in the division.

1-2 Northwestern is theoretically ahead of the other 1-2 teams because they are 1-1 in the division with a win over Nebraska and a loss to UW. They technically control their own destiny since they would win a tie with Nebraska, they haven't played PU or IL yet, and the team that beat them has more losses than they do.

1-2 Iowa is 0-1 in the division with a loss to IL. They need help but they could get there. They need to figure out how to generate points on offense though.

1-2 Minnesota is clearly in the worst shape of the 1-2 teams both because they are 0-2 in the division and because their two losses were to the two co-leaders. They need a LOT of help.

1-3 Wisconsin is 1-1 in the division. The biggest obstacle is that the loss was to 3-1 Illinois which means that the Badgers are effectively three games behind the Illini so they need all kinds of help.

Purdue's pass defense is just too horrible to win out.  Both their coverage and tackling after the catch are awful.  No lead is safe for Purdue and they will get burned again.

Purdue's pass defense is just too horrible to win out.  Both their coverage and tackling after the catch are awful.  No lead is safe for Purdue and they will get burned again.

Fortunately for Purdue, their remaining opponents are UW, IA, IL, NU, and IU. I note a lack of scary passing offenses.

B1G-E:
Ohio State and Michigan control their own destiny and look to be on course for one of the greatest ever editions of The Game.

Valenti and his buddy on their Detroit 97.1 show were yesterday going so far as to say as the National Championship runs through the Big 10 East this year – “National Champion is going to be either Ohio State or Michigan…no smarm, no sarcasm, no BS.”

Their praise for Michigan:
“You don’t fake 416 yards of rushing. You don’t fake what this team is doing [Michigan]…you don’t demolish someone and demoralize someone the way they did if you’re not legit…this might be, for Michigan fans, your best team.”

“Michigan rushed for more yards in that game than Penn State had given up in the entire season. 416 to 398. It was so good that Blake Corum wasn’t your leading rusher.”

“I think you [Michigan] broke Penn State…Penn State had the number ten next to their name similar to early in the year we thought Notre Dame was going to be better. And I think Ohio State kinda broke them. I think Michigan broke Penn State. I think Penn State will finish out the year losing more games than they will win. That was just flat out embarrassing.” “I will wait until people make fun of James Franklin’s contract the way they do Mel Tucker’s.”

Not since the late-90s have I watched a Michigan team, week-in/week-out, dominate their schedule as this Wolverines team is going on about 15 games now.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX6U_VeODfY

If  I had to guess at Big Ten bowl projections

Mich/OSU winner - CFP
Mich/OSU loser - Rose
PSU - Citrus
ILL - Tampa (the old Outback bowl, whatever it's called now)
Purdue - Duke's Mayo
MD - Music
Minn - Pinnstripe
Iowa - (Arizona whatever it's called now)
MSU - Detroit
NW, Neb, Wisc, Rut, Ind - stay home