huge game ahead for the boilers.
This weekend's solid performance against the Hawkeyes leaves my Boilers with a showdown that both Purdue fans and the M-Go-Blue set can relish: at Columbus, against the most fearsome run defense in the nation. We haven't won there since Jimi Hendrix played Montreaux. Nonetheless, if Purdue can beat OSU in its own barn, we can do no worse than a share of the Big Ten title as long as we take care of IU the following week. (That season-ending game better not be within ten miles of interesting.) I'm sure most Meeechigan fans would prefer us to lose at OSU so they can have an exclusive high noon duel with the Buckeyes for the outright title, but I'd like to suggest a non-aggression treaty between West Lafayette and Ann Arbor for the remainder of 2003. Pull for us to win out and get a bigtime bowl -- I couldn't attend any Purdue Rose Bowl this year anyway -- while you guys go ahead and win out for whatever all-the-marbles, top-four BCS bowl you can get. If we can both shove OSU aside, you'll probably get the Roses while we get us a Bloomin' Onion or something, thanks to that 31-3 drubbing in our head-to-head matchup. All told, a pretty fair deal.