2007 Purdue Football: When the Now Glorious was Normal

In 2007 College football went crazy. Kansas was the only one loss team in the country, won the Orange Bowl, but was nowhere near the National title game. Appalachian State beat Michigan. Stanford beat USC as a 20 point underdog. Illinois beat No. 1 Ohio State in Columbus. No. 2 teams fell left and right. No matter how you slice it, college football completely lost. It’s. Shit.

In the middle of that, however, Purdue was a pole of calm. Sure, we had our own contribution to the madness since it was the last time our football program has been ranked in the top 25 to date, but Purdue was stable. We did not stage any mind-bending upsets. We did not rise to No. 2 only to come tumbling down. In…