The last two years have been historical in the long-running Indiana-Purdue football rivalry. It is the only two times where the winner was assured of a bowl while the loser was eliminated. Only twice have both teams gone bowling in the same season (1979 and 2007) while the 1967 game is the lone one that decided the Big Ten title (Indiana’s win made it a three-way tie between Purdue, Indiana, and Minnesota as opposed to an outright Purdue title). Most of the time the game has either meant very little in the national picture or, like in 2016, 2015, 2012, or 2011 the winner clinched a bowl berth over a much worse loser.
Know Thy Opponent 2019: Indiana Hoosiers
