2021 Purdue Football: Hope Is Eternal

Eric Schlene/For the Journal & Courier This entire site is probably born out of the Drew Brees years for Purdue football. I started going to games in the 1987 season, starting with 22-22 tie with Louisville that year. At the time, Purdue was not THAT far separated from the Jim Young era, and it had gone to a bowl game just three years prior. We also now had Fred Akers! He was from TEXAS (all caps, of course). He had nearly won a national championship in 1981 and 1983!

Of course, what followed was 10 years of mostly uninspired football where Purdue never won more than four games in a single season on the field. I know they were technically 5-4-2 in 1994 after a Michigan State forfeit, but…