Bill Connelly is now all grown up and getting paid by ESPN, but the S&P guru used to be a member of SB Nation and even ran the Missouri blog, so we’re quite familiar with his analytic work from our recent home and home with Mizzou. He is going through and tweeting out historical S&P numbers for every program and here is what he had on Purdue:
As expected, Purdue has been quite up and down historically. Our best periods were a near national title in 1943, the late 60s under Jack Mollenkopf, and the early Tiller years.