Another Week 12 Musing

Line move has necessitated this play, and frankly, I forgot to mention it when I was falling asleep as I was writing the musings last night....

12. Purdue -2 1/2 @Indiana: Might have to hurry on this one. Basically, neither of these teams have anything to play for other than their pride, since both are eliminated from bowl contention. However, I think Purdue is a much better team, and has to have more confidence that they can come in and make a statement locally that they are the team that Indianapolis should be following, and not the Hoosiers. they're the ones that have the first year coach, and they certainly have a talent advantage. most of Purdue's problems this year were in cases where they coughed up games to teams that were good enough to accept the gifts, i.e. Northwestern, Michigan State and Minnesota(as long as they were at home). Iu, is not a team like that, and actually rivals Purdue's ability to shit the bed in tough spots. I won't remind anyone of any examples. Purdue will have the better Qb, the better scheme, the better running game, the better defense, and the best player on the field in DL Ryan Kerrigan, who happens to be a local kid. Now that it's under a FG, I think Purdue gets the job done here.