TheWatShot

Two of the last three games, Purdue has been shut out in the second half.

It's pretty telling how Brohm's best recruits are now upperclassmen and a so-so Wisconsin team still lays the wood to them.

"WHaT a DifFeREnCe a WeEk MAkEs!" --Purdue fans

Remember when Wisconsin used to be good?

How many times is Wisconsin going to false start today?

Oklahoma would finish 5th in the Big Ten East. Good lord that team is a mess right now.

I was surprised to see Wisconsin is a 5 point favorite. They haven't looked very impressive this year.

Is it normal for programs to have as many mid-season transfers as we're seeing? Doesn't give me good vibes about the direction we're heading.

That is a great observation, considering the painted red area is the only part of the field where a touchdown may be scored.

I had a dream the other night that we were playing OSU. It was tied at 28 with about 8 minutes left in the game. Somehow, Penix was back at QB. We had the ball near their 30 yard line. Penix dropped back to pass, got chased out of the pocket, kept running backward for some reason, then from midfield, fired a pass all the way to the end zone. It was incomplete, but OSU got flagged for pass interference. The official who made the call started getting pelted with trash from the thousands of OSU fans in attendance, so he decided to apply NFL rules and make it a spot foul, giving us the ball at the 1 yard line. Unfortunately, I woke up at this point, so I can't tell you how we failed to convert on 4th down.

My best guess is the refs remembered they were in New England and forgot that Brady no longer plays for the Pats.

Makes sense. News media types are fickle and tend to live in the moment.

I'm saying it doesn't make sense to drop a team that much while at the same time rewarding the team that beat them. Eight teams got more votes than Purdue in the Coaches' Poll. That would make Purdue 34th in that poll while being 25th in the AP. You don't usually see that much of a gap between where a team comes in for both polls. This feels like what the SEC does whenever one of its higher-ranked teams loses to an unranked team. Texas A&M and UK both got ranked after beating Alabama and Florida. They want to try and excuse the loss while getting more teams ranked.

Who actually does the AP rankings? There is way too much recency bias going into football rankings this year. This is the second week in a row that a team went from no votes to ranked in one week. Also, it seems like a bit of a contradiction to punish Iowa so severely by dropping them 9 spots while at the same time inserting Purdue into the top 25.

Really wish people would stop trying to write off the past two seasons and just admit they drank way too much koolaid before this season.

Everything I feared about the Iowa/Purdue matchup is coming to fruition. Iowa coming off an emotional win, Purdue coming off a bye week, and Purdue having their number recently. 14-7 Purdue at the half. Iowa looks completely dead and they can't cover Purdue's receivers.

It's amazing how Iowa always sh*ts the bed when they play Purdue. Just missed a 25 yard field goal after a 17 play drive. 7-0 Purdue with 11 minutes to go in the half.

As I watched us struggle against WKU a few weeks ago, my gut feeling was that I was watching a 4-8 team. The schedule is killer, I get that...but we just don't have the swagger or confidence we had a year ago, and I don't think we're getting it back.

It would take a pretty huge break for us to pull this out. Tuttle is so bad I can't see us going 70+ yards.

Tuttle is MSU's MVP today.

I've seen about enough of Jack Tuttle. He's directly responsible for about 70% of MSU's points today.

This team is just exhausting.

I've reached the point where I just mute the audio or follow on game tracker. So many of these announcers just make my skin crawl.

Can't wait to see us open the fourth quarter with a 2 yard pass on 3rd and 3.

They're over-ranked. They're a better team than we are, but they aren't really the #10 team in the country.