WE ARE......... PURDUE!!!

Well kids it's that time again for Purdue Friday Preview here on the good ole blog, sorry spy! I will try to keep it as painless as possible for you though. For those of you who don't know I love college football, obviously love my Purdue Boilermakers, BOILER UP! On Fridays I will be previewing the upcoming Saturday game, and making predictions, feel free to submit your predictions as well. So here goes! Oh yeah it's PURDUE not perdue SHANNON!!!

Purdue is coming off a 60-35 win over Indiana State, and this was very disappointing. I agree with Egan in that a win is a win, but this was a very disappointing win. It never should have been that close. We made a ton of first game mistakes that MUST be fixed before tomorrow. Mostly in the kicking game, having 2 punts blocked is never good. It's pretty much imperative that we win our first 4 games if we want any chance of going bowling. Mostly because after our 4th game the schedule gets incredibly difficult. Our opponent tomorrow is Miami (OH) the Redhawks out of the MAC. For those of you in the know, Big Ben of the Steelers played there. This is a very inexperienced team coming into Ross Ade, and they lost their first game like 28-3 to Northwestern, and NW was suppose to be down this year. So that bodes well for the Boilers. MAC teams are always dangerous though regardless of how good they are, they always want to go into the big stadiums and pull the stunner and are very capable of doing so. They pretty much have nothing to lose so you got to be on top of your game to win. This will be my first game of the season in attendance WOOHOO! I had to miss the ISU game because I was on vacaton. I can't wait, there is nothing better then gameday in college football. Breakfast Club, Tailgating, The All American Marching Band, Cheerleaders, and of course the awesome student section. This game isn't televised, but is on ESPN 360 and the kickoff is 1:00. I can't wait! :) I am so excited, I still get goosebumps when the AAMB runs in playing Hail Purdue! BTFU!

We got some good news/bad news this week as well. One of our Wide Receivers has been ruled academically ineligible for the season. This wasn't that big of a loss because we have alot of options at wide receiver, however the good news was big. One of our Safety's was FINALLY cleared to play by the NCAA clearinghouse! This was big because that is one position where we have struggled mightily. This is a big boost to the defense, moreso because we lost Safety Torri Williams last week to injury. I think the game might stay close for 1.5 quarters but won't be at the end, and hopefully see a totally different Purdue team. I think Purdue will really open it up this week and throw all over the field like in the Drew Brees days, and I don't see Miami being able to defend that. I hope that the defense we see tomorrow will be improved enough to stop Miami to get the ball back to our potent offense. If this happens the Boilers will roll. Alright on to some predictions.

Pillow fight of the week
Ball State 21 iu 28 (BOO!!)

Teams blogger friends back
Texas Tech 35 UTEP 28 (tough game fuzz, especially at UTEP!)
UAB 42 East Carolina 7 (Looking good in week 2 Kayla)
Washington State 35 Idaho 14 (Sorry Shife!)
Oklahoma 35 Washington 14 (Sorry egan, but too close for comfort vs SJSU to pick UW)
Bama 21 Vandy 7 (Already playing a SEC game?! ROLL TIDE ROLL!)

Finally
Purdue 52 Miami 17
Boilers roll to 2-0! BOILER UP BABY BOILER UP!

"HAIL HAIL to old Purdue all HAIL to our old gold and black
HAIL HAIL to old Purdue our friendship may she never lack
Ever grateful, ever true thus we raise our song anew FIRE UP!
Of the days we've spent with you all HAIL our old PURDUE
GO BOILERS"

BTFU!