When the 2018 season started we knew that the schedule would be tricky. With nine Big Ten games and two non-conference games against Power 5 teams are tricky for any program, let alone on in a rebuild like Purdue. Still, the benefit was supposed to be four straight games at home to start the year. That was going to keep the momentum going and even with three of the four against pretty good teams a 1-3 mark was considered a worst case scenario.
Well, the insurance policy of Eastern Michigan bit us, and now Purdue has to get its first win over a top 25 team in seven years in order to keep any fledgling bowl hopes alive.