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The No. 6 Ohio State Buckeyes bring the second-ranked scoring offense in college football into a matchup with the Purdue Boilermakers , who have the No. 16 scoring defense, on Saturday, November 13, 2021 Ohio Stadium, Columbus, OH

• The Boilermakers put up 5.8 more points per game (24.8) than the Buckeyes give up (19).

• The Boilermakers rack up 409.7 yards per game, 53.3 more yards than the 356.4 the Buckeyes give up.
• The Boilermakers have 13 giveaways this season, while the Buckeyes have 15 takeaways
• The Buckeyes have eight giveaways this season, while the Boilermakers have 14 takeaways .
• The Buckeyes collect 212.0 more yards per game (541.8) than the Boilermakers give up per matchup (329.8).
• The Buckeyes score 44.9 points per game, 26.5 more than the Boilermakers surrender per matchup (18.4).

Buckeyes looking to get back at the Spoilers for the 49-20 pasting in West Lafayette Oct 20,2018

Buckeyes should triple team Bell.

Headed out to a brewery for my FIL's birthday during the game. The last time I scheduled something with them that would interfere with a Purdue game was 10/20/2018. 

Headed out to a brewery for my FIL's birthday during the game. The last time I scheduled something with them that would interfere with a Purdue game was 10/20/2018.

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Headed out to a brewery for my FIL's birthday during the game. The last time I scheduled something with them that would interfere with a Purdue game was 10/20/2018.

Yeah, but the Buckeyes aren't #2, Spoilermaker magic seems mostly to apply against #2.  

MSU was #3. That still worked. Maybe OSU is too far away from #2, and MSU was guilty by proximity to #2...

Ok, I'm going with that!

I actually have a theory that alot of pollsters didn't rank Purdue this week in the hope that Purdue will be able to pull off another win as an unranked team.

This game comes down to OSU's D-line.  If they can create pressure, then they will win going away (~20ish points).  If the Purdue O-line can hold up for 5 seconds each down, then Purdue has a puncher's shot.  I'd still only put the odds at about 10% though.

I think a lot of them put them inside the top 25 after the Iowa win and possibly felt burned after the Wisconsin loss, so it was more of a "fool me twice, ya can't fool me again" sort of thing. 

That said, plenty of pollsters had them in their top 25.

In the AP poll with 63 respondents, Purdue was first in ORV (i.e. ranked "26th") with 174 points behind Pitt at 194. On a consensus-based poll--all points assigned to ONLY 25 teams and zero assigned outside those 25, and with each poll spot equally distributed 63 points between spots--174 points would be between 23rd (189) and 24th (126) points. 

In the Coaches poll with 64 respondents, Purdue was 3rd ORV, or basically 28th, with 77 points.  In a consensus-based poll, that would be 13 points more than needed to be ranked 25th (64). 

So there were definitely voters who had Purdue in their rankings, just not quite enough of them.