If Purdue is going to have any chance at winning the Big Ten this year it has to win on Sunday. That’s not really an exaggeration. A Spartan win puts them three games ahead of us and they would have only 10 to play. That would mean Purdue would have to go undefeated the rest of the way and the Spartans would have to go 7-3 (plus a lot of other things would need to happen) just for us to get a share of the title.
A Purdue win cuts the deficit to one game, however, and also opens the door for a bunch of other contenders.