Danny Payne, Pregame Editor: So Purdue, obviously, isn’t having a great year.

Jordan Hansen, football reporter: It beat Nebraska, though, 55-45.
Payne: So it has that going.

Hansen: That’s about it.

Charlie Green, football reporter: It’s kind of just a rough era for Purdue right now. I think [head coach] Darrell Hazell, this is his third year, and he’s now 2-19 in the Big Ten.

Hansen: That’s concerning.

Green: I mean, I like Hazell a lot. But from a production standpoint, I think Purdue, I don’t want to say the Boilermakers are content, but they’re bringing a coach back who’s 2-19 in the Big Ten.

Hansen: But I mean, do you really want to restart the program again? There are a lot of issues with Purdue football, and I think the head coach is just one of them.

Green: We were talking about [Iowa’s] rushing defense earlier, and Purdue ranks last in the Big Ten in rushing, so if Iowa can’t stop the run in this game …

Payne: Then sound the alarms, if that’s the case.

Green: This is a bad team, and there’s really no way around it.

Payne: Yeah, I mean it’s Senior Day, and the Big Ten West trophy will be in the building. Purdue’s the worst team in the Big Ten. Without watching Purdue in person, I’d still say Maryland is the worst team in the Big Ten. But I haven’t seen Purdue play in person, so we’ll see.

Green: Well, Purdue’s won twice this year, and it beat Indiana State. And it beat Nebraska, which is a good win, but they still gave up 45 points in that game.

Hansen: Looking at their wins and losses it’s just kind of strange. They kept the Michigan State game close. They kept the Wisconsin game kind of respectable. They only lost by 7 points last week, but Northwestern has issues with its offense.

Payne: I don’t have much to say on this game. There’s no reason Iowa should have lost to Minnesota over the weekend. I said that all week, and I wrote that before the game. I think there’s even less of a reason that Iowa should lose to Purdue.

Green: They’re throwing the ball a lot, more than anyone in the Big Ten, presumably because they’re getting behind. And they just don’t have a lot of pieces offensively.

Hansen: I don’t remember their wide receivers being real great last year, and I don’t think they’re real great this year. When was the last time Purdue was actually good?

Payne: Mid 2000s.

Green: Those teams with Curtis Painter were decent. They were good with Kyle Orton. One year, one of those Orton teams was really highly touted, and they kind of laid an egg that season.

Payne: That’s what happens when Kyle Orton’s your quarterback.

Hansen: The only reason I bring that up is because it just feels like Purdue’s been bad for as long as I’ve been paying attention to Iowa football and Big Ten football.