Early thoughts:
Birdsong is very good. He somewhat reminds me of Roethlisberger when he was at Fiami -- big, good arm, can run and has smarts. I think the big difference between Birdsong and Cato is that Birdsong isn't as big a threat to run, although he's tougher to take down because of his size.
The T'erd D line can be overpowered. Purdue really controlled the line of scrimmage in its two touchdown first-quarter TD drives. Our O line might be able to take advantage.
We can't make mistakes on offense. Appleby really telegraphed his first pass and it went for a pick-six. T'erd's LBs may be their strength on D.
We can beat them deep. Their D secondary seems to be a step slow.
I wonder what the effect will be on them playing in 90-degree heat with a short week between games.
FS1 needs to do their homework. Purdue has about 40,000 enrollment, not 14,000 (they used the same numbers for both schools). And Purdue didn't get the name "Boilermakers" from shoveling coal. It was actually used in a newspaper account of their victory over Wabash in the early 20th century and likely comes from their engineering students getting hands-on experience working on train engines.
Last Edited: 9/6/2015 4:22:30 PM by Pataskala