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volume 23, eX 2 • sept. 5, 2012 Inside | A look at ND 7-11 | Tight ends feature 17–19 TerBush the pick 30-35 | Recruiting 36-37 Enough 'Ammo' To Take Down Irish? SClardie@GoldandBlack.com BY STACY CLARDIE played, it was hardly a contest. So it's in South Bend, a place that's So the spread is a couple touchdowns. So the last time these teams been nearly impossible for Purdue to win in the last 40 years. So a single player on the current roster doesn't know what it feels like to beat the Fighting Irish. So what? The Boilermakers haven't felt this con- fident heading into a game against their upstate rival since Danny Hope accepted the head coach job, they say. And they're ready to snap a four-game losing streak to the Irish. "We have a great team to do it, Gabe Holmes said. "We're stacked every- where. I feel like now we have the most ammo to do it. I honestly think we will do it. It's going to be a good game, go up to South Bend, come home with the W and have that W (flag) still flying up there at Ross- Ade. " " tight Fifth-year senior Caleb TerBush will try to lead the Boilermakers against the Fighting Irish this season, hoping for a better result than last year when Purdue fell behind three touchdowns. Tom Campbell Notre Dame Stadium. In Hope's first season as head coach in 2009, Purdue seemed primed for the upset, holding a lead in the final minutes. Then a hobbled Jimmy Clausen led an impres- sive drive to the 2-yard line, Hope called a controversial timeout and Purdue couldn't recover. On fourth down, Clausen drilled a pass to Kyle Rudolph for the go-ahead touchdown with less than a minute left. But this time — so what if the 1-0 Irish snuck into the rankings at No. 22 this week — is different, players and Hope said. Hope pointed to his team's experi- THE NUMBERS 0 3 ing in 2007. in the last four years, all of them Fighting Irish wins. ND is favored by two touch- downs on Saturday. 38 set at Wisconsin in 1996. 14.75 33 ence and talent level, the best its been in his tenure he says, that will increase his team's "odds to compete and win." Which quarterback will lead Purdue to found themselves down 21-0 under the lights in West Lafayette and never recov- ered in a 38-10 disappointment. The year before, Robert Marve started Last season, the Boilermakers quickly slowly in his Purdue debut and the Boiler- makers never recovered, losing 23-12 at that streak-breaker, though? Caleb TerBush will get the first chance. Despite being suspended for the season opener for breaking team rules, TerBush will start for the second consec- utive season against the Irish. He threw an interception on his first play of that game last year. Purdue's margin of victory against Eastern Kentucky. The Boilers have beaten their last two FCS opponents a combined 107-6 the last two seasons (59-0 vs. SEMO last year). Purdue's third-down con- version percentage (12-15) against EKU and the forecast- ed chance rain was going to fall during the game, which it did not. 42 80 he and his coach insist. On Monday — before Hope an- But he's a different quarterback now, nounced his starter and the quarterbacks were made unavailable for interviews — GOLDANDBLACK EXPRESS • volume 23, express 2 • 1 Purdue's first-down total vs. EKU, five short of the pro- gram's single-game record of Number of players on Purdue's ros- ter who have beaten Notre Dame, with the Boilermakers' last win com- The Boilers' current winning streak, the longest of the Danny Hope Era at Purdue. It's the Boilermakers' longest since the start of the 2007 sea- son, when Purdue began 5-0. The average margin of victory for Notre Dame

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