The Boilermakers will have the fourth highest mileage traveled this year, largely on the back of their trip to Reno to face Nevada on the 30th. In fact, the Nevada trip alone will be more travel than the three lowest-traveling teams in the Big Ten. Those three, Iowa, Michigan, and Michigan State will all have less than 3,500 miles to travel this year, mostly on the backs of either an entirely-at-home OOC schedule (Michigan/MSU) or no trips too far east in conference play (Michigan State does have Rutgers, while Michigan goes Maryland.
Taking out the Nevada game, Purdue’s travel schedule in conference play puts them at 2,156 miles, only 70 miles more than Iowa’s conference travel schedule (subtracting the 200 mile round trip to Ames OOC), but third behind Illinois (who only travels 1,925 miles in conference this season).