It’s been a long time since Purdue closed a season in the AP top 25. In fact, there has been only 16 times in the history of Purdue football where it appeared in the final poll, with the last time coming in 2003, where it was 18th. A year later Purdue received 10 votes in the final poll despite losing five of the final seven games of the season. That was the last time Purdue was anywhere near the final AP top 25...
...until now.
With Georgia winning the national title last night we can close the 2021 college football season.