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GOLDANDBLACK EXPRESS • VOLUME 25, EXPRESS 10 • 35 yardage by getting 93 against Nebraska. Mostert didn't have a big return that sparked his total — his longest was 21 yards — but he got six opportunities. He moved past Dorien Bryant on the all-time list, pushing his career total to 2,127. "I am truly honored to hold the record for the most kick return yardage in school history. Means a lot," Mostert tweeted after the game. ON THE LIST The Ray Guy Award announced its list of can- didates last week, and junior Thomas Meadows is in the running for the honor of nation's best punter. The 80-player list will be trimmed to 10 semi- finalists on Nov. 14. Former Boilermaker Cody Webster was one of three finalists for the award last season. Meadows and Purdue's punt unit had been one of the country's best until it stumbled against the Cornhuskers. Meadows had two punts blocked, leading to points for the Cornhuskers, and also allowed a 42-yard return on a line drive, off-line punt into the wind. Those return yards were more than Purdue had allowed all season (30) entering the game. Still, on the season, Meadows is averaging 40.7 yards per punt and has placed 12 inside of the 20, 15 fair catches and had only one touch - back. NEW LOOK Last season on Purdue's "Military Apprecia- tion Day" game against Iowa, the Boilermakers wore a decal that had a flag on their gold hel- mets. For Saturday's game, they'll once again change up the look. Purdue will wear black helmets with a red, white and blue stripe, have a flag inside the mo- tion P logo and then have "United We Stand" across the back of the helmet, Hazell said. Also, members of the military will form lines on the field for players to run through after they're introduced before the game, and at halftime ap- proximately 52 men and women will participate in an enlistment ceremony. THE NEXT TWO Nov. 22, vs. Northwestern Northwestern (3-5 overall, 2-3 in the Big Ten) hosts 4-5 Michigan (4-5, 2-3) Saturday afternoon in Evanston. Both teams can afford one more loss IN THE OPPOSITE CORNER Comments from last week's and this week's opposing coaches: NEBRASKA COACH BO PELINI "(Purdue) threw a lot at us. Their offense has been playing pretty good. The two touchdowns that they had were on short fields. The second one to me was inexcusable. We blew a coverage, which is a little bit unlike us. The first one a guy jumped out of his gap on a pressure. "I don't know what (Purdue was) throwing the football, 18-of-46? I think that's a pretty good day in the secondary." WISCONSIN COACH GARY ANDERSEN "Purdue is an offensive foot- ball team that causes you a lot of problems, and they've got two very fast running backs, as fast as we've played all year long as far as sheer speed. Both those young men are very good foot- ball players and very, very fast. "It's an offense that's changed from a year ago. They're much more wide open, their plan is to obviously spread the field both ways on you from sideline to sideline, from end zone to end zone and they've done a nice job, created big plays. "There are a lot of defenses in this league that I've learned to truly respect from a coach's standpoint and players and their scheme over the last couple of years, and one of those would be Minnesota and the other would definitely be Michigan State. That's not taking away from the other teams in this conference's defense at all, but I've seen those guys play and they're very good, and Purdue played well offensively against both those teams. So we will have our work cut out for us without question." Dave Stluka, Wisconsin Gary Andersen is impressed with how improved Purdue is after five weeks of the Big Ten season. Purdue Purdue will wear these helmets in Saturday's game against Wisconsin in honor of Military Appreciation Day.