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Around the Big Ten, Week 8: Purdue makes a statement, Michigan keeps rolling

Every Sunday, after an entire Saturday’s worth of college football, we’ll take a look around the Big Ten. As the conference as a whole fights as respectability in the non-conference, or as its power dynamics shift on a week-to-week basis this fall, we’ll follow every team and try to piece together the puzzle that is the 13-week-long season all the way up until Indianapolis.

Here are the top storylines from Week 8:

If you just saw the score of the Purdue-Ohio State game — a 49-20 beatdown in favor of the Boilermakers — you would’ve missed an incredible story.