Believe it or not, no team in the Big Ten has given Ohio State more trouble over the last three years than the Purdue Boilermakers.
Dating back to the 2009 season, Danny Hope and the Boilermakers hold a 2-1 record over the Buckeyes.
In ‘09, a 5-1 and seventh-ranked Ohio State team fell to a five-loss Purdue squad 26-18 in West Lafayette. Last year, Purdue forced overtime when Bruce Gatson blocked Drew Basil’s extra point attempt late in the fourth quarter. The Boilermakers went on to pull out a 26-23 victory over the Buckeyes.
Those games sandwiched a 49-0 Ohio State rout of Purdue in 2010 that was later vacated by the school because of NCAA violations committed by then-head coach Jim Tressel.
So what’s Purdue’s secret?
How has a relatively mediocre team had such consistent success over the vastly superior Buckeyes the last three years?
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