Purdue Preview: All The Oatmeal You Can Throw

by Run Up The Score on Oct 2, 2008 1:00 PM EDT in Football

Who Shot Who In The What Now? Penn State (5-0) at Purdue (2-2). Kickoff scheduled for noon at Ross-Ade Stadium in West Lafayette, Indiana.

Kicking Television: ESPN. Dave Pasch and Andre Ware call the game.

A Fool And His Money: The various sportsbooks seem to have settled on making Penn State a 13.5 point favorite. The over/under sits at 58. Weather: Mostly sunny, with a high near 66. Light east wind.

Dubious Statistical Achievements: Purdue ranks 107th nationally in Total Defense (yards allowed per game), 81st in Scoring Defense, 99th in Rushing Defense (194.5 ypg), and a horrific 112th in Net Punting. However, they're #1 among Big Ten teams in Passing Offense. Number two? Penn State. Hide the women and children.

Lest We Forget: Purdue has always been an easy mark for Penn State -- the Lions are 9-2 against the Boilermakers, with the two losses coming in 2003 and 2004. If you can stomach highlights containing Notre Dame competence, enjoy these clips from last week's game against Purdue:

In Scores From Other Games: You know it, you love it. Mark Hasty's "Pickin' On The Big Ten". "It's Always Take Your Son To Work Day" is nice. I would've gone with "World's Largest Drumming".

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Smoke Signals From Enemy Territory: Purdue blogs Off The Tracks and Boiled Sports are here to help, although neither seem to have any PSU-Purdue content yet. Get to work, slackers.

I'm fairly sure that all three BSD writers are occupied with Real Life Responsibilities for the next 24 hours, but we'll be back with last-minute predictions and more tomorrow.

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Oh thank god!

I thought Pam Ward might be calling the game…WHEW!

Oh OhOhOh Oh Oh!

by doctadas on Oct 2, 2008 1:10 PM EDT 0 recs

She is one of the few things that can detract from even the most lopsided of Penn State victories

by TheMightyErik on Oct 2, 2008 2:06 PM EDT up 0 recs

I agree with that, but

Pasch and Ware may be just as grating.

by PSU Mudder on Oct 2, 2008 3:29 PM EDT up 0 recs

More grating, I think

Andre Ware makes me want to put a power drill to my head.

Will the real Derrick Williams please stand up?

by ReadingRambler on Oct 2, 2008 4:13 PM EDT up 0 recs

Oh, indeed!

I’ll take Pam Ward over Andre Ware any freakin day. This could prompt trying a radio audio / tv video disconnect attempt….

Convivite Nudem!

by jtothep on Oct 2, 2008 4:15 PM EDT up 0 recs

I concur

I do have to agree with you on that one. My mistake

by TheMightyErik on Oct 2, 2008 4:43 PM EDT up 0 recs

radio personalities

Are there any PSU radio personalities worth listening to? Not necessarily Myron Cope levels of awesomeness, but often times anything is better than the ESPN scrubs.

by gumbercules on Oct 2, 2008 6:30 PM EDT up 0 recs

radio

I think Jack Ham is an excellent analyst and he’s good because he isn’t afraid to speak what he sees. And Jonesy has a way of making the most mundane plays seem like a spunk-tacular event.

by Spats on Oct 3, 2008 10:10 AM EDT up 0 recs

Word

I was bout to write that yesterday, but started googling to get info on how to listen to him tomorrow and couldn’t find jack. Get it? Couldn’t find Jack? Anyhoo, I don’t have XM, but could stomach internet radio over Andre "hey, did you know I have a Heisman’, especially if it’s Jack Motherphuquing Ham.

So, got link?

Convivite Nudem!

by jtothep on Oct 3, 2008 2:04 PM EDT up 0 recs

Sorry

I’m local so I can listen on the Pittsburgh ESPN affiliate – not sure if they have the boradcast on their site….

http://stations.espn.go.com/stations/espnradio1250/

by Spats on Oct 3, 2008 3:08 PM EDT up 0 recs

And by "boradcast", I mean "broadcast".

by Spats on Oct 3, 2008 3:08 PM EDT up 0 recs

Sweet, thanks

And thx for clearing that up; a boratcast would get a little tiresome, too.

Convivite Nudem!

by jtothep on Oct 3, 2008 4:34 PM EDT up 0 recs

It would be okay.

Exactly 80% of the time, at least.

by Run Up The Score on Oct 3, 2008 9:16 PM EDT up 0 recs

slight wind

is an understatement. you can bet on 15-20 mph winds regardless of the time of year. i swear west lafayette is in a wind tunnel

For the glory

by lionalum05 on Oct 2, 2008 2:09 PM EDT 0 recs

Real Life Responsibilities

How dare you….I thought this blogging empire paid the bills.

by Screen Name 20 on Oct 2, 2008 2:26 PM EDT 0 recs

No sir I cannot stomach it.

You didn’t say it was set to music and that was too much.

I don't know, Mello Yello is pretty awful. What's the worst that could happen?

by psu on Oct 2, 2008 2:47 PM EDT 0 recs

Were there any clips of the ND band in there?

My current understanding is that failure to pay proper reverence to the Notre Dame band is a punishable offense (crucifixion?), so if I must….

Please let me know.

"I honestly think the "Spread HD" is going to work pretty well, and we’ll be just fine this year". - 8-27-2008

by jesse. on Oct 2, 2008 3:00 PM EDT up 1 recs

Wildford Brimley!

A Wilford joke! Damn, that’s original and high-brow comedy.

Hey, Joe Paterno is old! Am I right, people?

crickets

[insert prophetic yet obnoxiously haughty and annoying quote here]

by J Money BS on Oct 2, 2008 2:59 PM EDT 0 recs

Well, to be honest

Wilford Brimley is actually Tiller’s pseudonym….They’re one and the same. You’ve never seen them at the same place at the same time, have you?

by Screen Name 20 on Oct 2, 2008 3:04 PM EDT up 0 recs

Who is the person who figured out that

the best way to get old people to listen during a commercial is to have some other old fart yelling at them?

Brilliant, I say.

by PSU Mudder on Oct 2, 2008 3:31 PM EDT up 0 recs

That is two Wilford Brimley jokes, sir.

Or three.

by Run Up The Score on Oct 2, 2008 8:57 PM EDT up 0 recs

What the hell were we talking about

I don't know, Mello Yello is pretty awful. What's the worst that could happen?

by psu on Oct 2, 2008 9:18 PM EDT up 1 recs

Seriously?

Someone made a pump up video from the Purdue-ND game?

by speedomike on Oct 2, 2008 3:56 PM EDT 0 recs

10 Bowl Games. . .

Not wins. . .games.

by The IC Lion on Oct 2, 2008 4:04 PM EDT up 0 recs

C'mon

Numbers can say anything.

In this case, even the truth.

OK. I can’t resist:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0Y7yjxJVlc

'People are about as happy as they decide they want to be'

by Pete the Streak on Oct 2, 2008 5:06 PM EDT up 0 recs

Of course

they only used about 5 plays, but showed each one from 10 different camera angles to give the impression of total Irish Domination. Clever.

OK – I can’t resist:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0Y7yjxJVlc

'People are about as happy as they decide they want to be'

by Pete the Streak on Oct 2, 2008 5:15 PM EDT up 0 recs

Good grief

Mr. Double Post here, and I don’t get it.

I post, it shows up, and then I come back later and it’s gone.

What the hell – that commercial’s worth watching twice.

'People are about as happy as they decide they want to be'

by Pete the Streak on Oct 2, 2008 6:09 PM EDT up 0 recs

This is sad

Check out this t-shirt. This is the best coach they have ever had?

"I honestly think the "Spread HD" is going to work pretty well, and we’ll be just fine this year". - 8-27-2008

by jesse. on Oct 2, 2008 4:02 PM EDT 0 recs

Oops. . look above

by The IC Lion on Oct 2, 2008 4:04 PM EDT up 0 recs

How about

2 whole academic All Americans!?

"I honestly think the "Spread HD" is going to work pretty well, and we’ll be just fine this year". - 8-27-2008

by jesse. on Oct 2, 2008 4:05 PM EDT up 0 recs

Nice math

Considering Purdue has had eight Academic All-Americans under Tiller. Of course, that’s eight AAA honors between five different football players since three of them got it twice.

by The Mess on Oct 2, 2008 6:09 PM EDT up 0 recs