For a Group of Five opponent Purdue could not have picked a more difficult team to open the home season. We have Indiana State coming up three times in the next eight years. We have a pair of games against UConn. We’ve got Ball State and Miami (OH) coming up. Even when this game was scheduled in 2017 it didn’t look awful as they were coming off of an 8-5 season (with a 51-31 loss to… Jeff Brohm’s Western Kentucky in the bowl game).
Now, however, this is a dangerous game and possibly the toughest of the early four game season start.