Purdue wins bucket game 38-21
Joey Elliott threw a career-high four touchdown passes to help Purdue beat Indiana 38-21 on Saturday and retain the Old Oaken Bucket.
Joey Elliott threw a career-high four touchdown passes to help Purdue beat Indiana 38-21 on Saturday and retain the Old Oaken Bucket.
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The 4-7 record for both IU and Purdue is not the only thing they have in common as they prepare for the game at 3:30 p.m. Saturday in Bloomington. Playing for pride is simply the most obvious.
When the Hoosiers storm the field for the last time in 2009 to take on Purdue, it will be a reminder that this is what college football should be.
When IU senior safety Nick Polk – originally from Milwaukee – first visited Bloomington, he didn’t know anything about the school’s rivalry with Purdue. Things have changed.
IU used to show off its animosity every year by re-enacting the burial of Jawn Purdue, and Purdue counteracted with their burning of Miss Indiana, which died out in the mid-1970s and 1960s, respectively.
After expanded student section tickets sold out, Fred Glass announced Wednesday an additional 2,500 student seats for Saturday's IU-Purdue football game.
With both teams suffering defeats last weekend, IU and Purdue will meet for their annual contest with nothing to play for but the Old Oaken Bucket.
For the 15th time in 16 seasons, the IU football team will not be participating in a bowl game.
With more than 40,000 tickets already sold for this week’s Old Oaken Bucket game against Purdue, IU will exceed a 40,000 average game attendance for the first time since 1992.
IU senior running back Bryan Payton couldn’t help but be disappointed in his own offense that turned four Penn State turnovers into just one score during the first half.
IU lost to Penn State 31-20 in State College, Pa., and fell to 4-7 on the season. The defeat eliminates any chance of a bowl game berth for IU.
As if football wasn’t a complex enough game with the rules in the book, the unwritten rules – generally accepted ways of the game – come into play throughout an entire contest.
The story is all too familiar for IU football this season: an early lead, a failure to capitalize on opportunities and a second-half struggle. Saturday’s game against Penn State was no different.
The story is all too familiar for IU football this season: an early lead, a failure to capitalize on opportunities and a second-half struggle. Saturday’s game against Penn State was no different.
The terms “must-win,” “do or die” and “win or go home” will have their place in every preview of Saturday’s game, but they aren’t points of emphasis within the Memorial Stadium walls.
As coach of Penn State for the past 43 seasons, Joe Paterno has been around football long enough to understand the importance of never looking past an opponent.
Late in the second quarter against Wisconsin, IU’s offense was struggling with only 55 yards the entire half. So it turned to a group that’s paced the offense all season – the wide receivers.
The Bowl Championship Series is going to oust deserving teams again, and this time there is a possibility that the damage might extend to multiple schools.
Saturday’s football game at Memorial Stadium provided a different storyline for the Hoosiers.