Welp, this isn’t ideal for Purdue.
It’s a cold, rainy, windy day in West Lafayette and that plays directly into the hands of Northwestern. The Wildcats are built to run the ball, get up, run the ball again, and if that run didn’t net a first down, line up and do it again. That’s a winning strategy in the peat bog that Ross-Ade will turn into at some point today.
Pat Fitzgerald is going to rely heavily on the running game that’s propelled him to a 3-0 start in the Big10, and he’ll utilize a number of ball carriers to get the job done.