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My Freshman year was the 1998 season where they beat everyone except Michigan State. My final year was the 02 National Championship. So it was a great start and finish; book ending the Steve Bellasari nightmare that included a pair of Outback Bowl losses to S Carolina, where my brother was enrolled in the Strom Thurman Law School at the time. So he really enjoyed those two seasons at my expense.

Steve Bellasari got unfairly dumped on as he was a pariah of John Coopers swan song.Coopers ineptness in C-Bus was poking thru yet again.The QB stable was weak so Bellasari was called on - he was erratic but there was no one else to play until his senior yr when he got a DUI and Tressel turned to some guy named Krenzel.But the kid didn't need to hear comments like Bella-sorry,when he was out there giving it a shot

I have no memories of college football until, well, college. Chicago being a pro sports town, and my dad having studied at IIT while my mom was at UofI at the old Navy Pier campus, they weren't exactly college football fans. 

So in 1996 I made my way to West Lafayette, never having seen a college football game that I can recall. I only have two recollections of that season, as I did not have tickets to games: 

• I was at a fraternity rush event and the Purdue/Notre Dame game was on TV. Notre Dame returned the opening kickoff for a touchdown before beating Purdue 35-0. Not a good first impression for me...
• Purdue beat Michigan 9-6, which was meaningless to me. When I heard the fans had rushed the field, torn down the goalpost, and carried it down to the levee to throw it in the Wabash, I realized it must have been a big deal. 

Purdue finished 3-8 and fired Jim Colletto that year. 

The next year I had joined a fraternity, and got season tickets as part of our house bloc, and my first game in Ross-Ade Stadium was the defeat of Notre Dame that again led to fans rushing the field (including me). That was a much better impression.

i remember going to homecoming parade and bonfires as a kid in the late 80's.

as for a football specific memory, the 92 season. the stomping of florida in first seccg and then miami talking trash and thinking we had no chance, just happy to be back in title discussion. then george teague chasing down the miami wr on a long pass and stripping the football. just demoralizing. also remember the national champs parade and celebration on the quad. fun times. still have the shaker and little plastic football from that parade.

i remember going to homecoming parade and bonfires as a kid in the late 80's.

as for a football specific memory, the 92 season. the stomping of florida in first seccg and then miami talking trash and thinking we had no chance, just happy to be back in title discussion. then george teague chasing down the miami wr on a long pass and stripping the football. just demoralizing. also remember the national champs parade and celebration on the quad. fun times. still have the shaker and little plastic football from that parade.

George Teague running down big mouth Lamar Thomas may be my favorite memory that doesn’t involve my favorite team.

i remember going to homecoming parade and bonfires as a kid in the late 80's.

as for a football specific memory, the 92 season. the stomping of florida in first seccg 

Ehhh, stomped?

Ehhh, stomped?

mixed up my words. originally it said stomping of miami in title game, then i added the seccg in there, cause i remember the pick6 from langham late in 4th to win game.

I remember parts of the '68 season when tOSU won the MNC.My older brothers and some friends were watching Purdue @ tOSU and the Boilers were no 1 in the country at the time.Buckeyes won and I don't recall watching a whole lot more until beating USC & OJ Simpson on Jan1,1969

about the same time, I was a big Woody, Jim Otis fan.
didn't like that John Brockington played for the Packers later
OJ Simpson was a helluva running back