Purdue Football: Purdue vs Mother Nature

Photo by Steven Branscombe/Getty ImagesIf Saturday’s game was in a dome, Purdue wins by 4 touchdowns. Instead, they’ll be playing in a blustery West Lafayette featuring 30 degree weather at kick with sustained 20 mile and hour winds and gusts up to 40 miles and hour. Purdue is better than Northwestern, but are they better than Mother Nature?

Against Iowa, Mother Nature picked up a W. I have no idea how the game ends up if the wind isn’t howling, but Purdue didn’t stand a chance with the wind. Jeff Brohm admitted as much during his post Iowa press conference, stating, “Purdue’s precision passing game struggles in bad weather.” That’s not ideal when you play in the Big10, a conference that…