Acrepro.com Wednesday Night LIVE: Purdue football chat
Purdue football chat with GoldandBlack.com’s Tom Dienhart and Alan Karpick. The duo takes questions and discusses all things Purdue football including the transition to Jason Simmons as the Boilermakers’ new offensive coordinator to trying to end Wisconsin’s 17-game hex over the Gold and Black.
Purdue-Wisconsin fast facts
Here’s an early look at Purdue’s fifth opponent of the 2024 season, the Wisconsin Badgers.
Date/Time: Saturday, October 5, Noon E.T.
Location: Camp Randall Stadium
Surface: FieldTurf
Capacity: 76,057 (tickets)
Weather: Forecast shows a high of 79 with mostly sunny skies
2024 schedules/records: Purdue 1-3 (0-1 Big Ten), Wisconsin 2-2 (0-1 Big Ten)
Series notes: Wisconsin leads the all-time series 53-29-8 thanks to a 17-game winning streak in the series. Purdue last defeated the Badgers 26-23 on a walk-off field goal in 2003. Since then, Purdue has lost every meeting with Wisconsin by an average margin of 19.88 points. Luke Fickell and Ryan Walters will meet for the second time, as each coach needs to spark improvement in year two. Fickell defeated Walters 38-17 on a Friday night in Ross-Ade Stadium a season ago.
TV: BTN
Early line: Wisconsin -10.5
STORYLINES TO WATCH
The drought
The series notes above tell the story. Throughout the losing streak, most of Purdue’s losses came in a non-competitive fashion. The pain of the 2004 loss never left the fan base. The triple-overtime loss in 2018 should have ended the streak, but Jonathan Taylor had other ideas. Excluding the new West Coast members, there’s only one Big Ten program that Purdue hasn’t defeated since the last time it took down Wisconsin. That program? Rutgers.
