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early in the season that maybe we could be a football team that could contend to be division champions. I'm not going to shy away from an opportunity like * Ineligible for postseason play ! Division winner # Big Ten Championship game participant Ohio State*! Penn State* Wisconsin# PURDUE Indiana Illinois Big Ten/Pct. 8-0/1.000 6-2/.667 4-4/.500 3-5/.375 2-6/.250 0-8/.000 On Tap Saturday Game No. 12 Nebraska vs. Wisconsin Leaders Division Team Northwestern Michigan State Minnesota Iowa Nebraska!# Michigan Legends Division Team that. And I don't think we should ever direct our team away from opportunities like that. Alex Agase (1976) and Fred Akers (1990) were terminated " BIG TEN STANDINGS (As of Nov. 28) Big Ten/Pct. 7-1/.875 6-2/.750 5-3/.625 3-5/.375 2-6/.250 2-6/.250 Division/Pct. 5-0/1.000 4-1/.800 3-2/.600 1-4/.200 0-5/.000 2-3/.400 Division/Pct. 5-0/1.000 4-1/.800 3-2/.600 2-3/.400 1-4/.200 0-5/.000 Overall/Pct. 10-2/.833 8-4/.667 9-3/.750 6-6/.500 6-6/.500 4-8/.333 Overall/Pct. 12-0/1.000 8-4/.667 7-5/.583 6-6/.500 4-8/.333 2-10/.167 within days after losing the Old Oaken Bucket contest. In 1972, Bob DeMoss won his last game as coach, a 42-7 drubbing of the Hoosiers, before he resigned, as did his predecessor Jack Mollen- kopf three years earlier in a 44-21 win in Bloomington. In 1981, Jim Young resigned the week before a Bucket loss in Bloomington. Five years later, Leon Burtnett's squad defeated Indiana in one of the most dra- matic games ever, but Burtnett had been fired three weeks prior. Jim Colletto resigned 19 days be- fore losing the '96 Bucket game. Hope's career at Purdue ends with a 22-27 record, having led the Boilermakers to a 13-12 mark the last two years. "This was obviously a day Big Ten Championship, Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis Source: Danny Sheridan, Wednesday Week 13 Results Nebraska 13, IOWA 7 NORTHWESTERN 50, Illinois 14 OHIO STATE 21, Michigan 14 PURDUE 56, Indiana 35 Michigan State 26, MINNESOTA 10 PENN STATE 24, Wisconsin 21 (OT) Home team in CAPS Time (ET) 8:17 p.m. Fox TV Neb. -3 Line said Sunday at Purdue's press con- ference announcing Hope's firing. "(The decision was made) when it became clear to me no matter how hard one was work- ing, it was going to be difficult to reverse the image and the view of the program. I don't like people to have to continue to put 120 per- cent effort in, and Danny is a 150 percent guy, he gives it all. " Morgan Burke gressed, it became in- creasingly clear to me that we were probably going to have to make a change. "As the season pro- " 1. Kyle Orton, Purdue, 2004 2. Curtis Painter, Purdue, 2008 6:15 p.m. Monday at the Purdue Memorial Union Ballrooms. Tick- ets are available at the Purdue Athletics Ticket Office, as well as from members of the Kiwanis Club, which sponsors the event. Tickets are $34 each. This week, Burke expressed Purdue's postseason banquet will go on as scheduled. Hope has been invited. The 92nd annual event is at that wasn't fun, but it's also a day where we have to understand and be accountable for what our expectations were, BANQUET STILL ON FOR MONDAY Despite the coaching change, TOP BUCKET GAME PASSING PERFORMANCES 3. ROBERT MARVE, PURDUE, 2012 4. Jay Rodgers, Indiana, 1997 5. Ben Chappell, Indiana, 2010 522 yards 448 348 342 330 his desire to have the Boilermaker family come together after a divi- sive regular season that has end- ed in a coaching change. He said coming to the banquet to support the team's seniors and program is a good way to do that. SHAVERS' RECORD DAY The Boilermakers had spec- tacular individual offensive perfor- mances in Hope's first game as the Boilermaker coach and in his last. Akeem Shavers' 225 yards (126 yards rushing, 99 yards re- ceiving) in total offense is the best individual performance by a Boilermaker in that category since Ralph Bolden had 247 yards (234 rushing, 13 passing) against Tole- do in 2009. Shavers was just one- yard shy of becoming the second player in Purdue history to have 100 yards rushing and receiving in the same game. Leroy Keyes did it twice, with 145 yards rushing and 120 receiving at Iowa in 1967 and 140 yards rushing and 149 yards receiving in his final college game, a dramatic 38-35 Bucket victory over Indiana in 1968. Shavers got a career-high 27 carries against the Hoosiers. "I think I'm showing them now" that the more carries the better, Shavers said. "I haven't had a game like this since high school. It feels great. "It definitely shows that the coaches have confidence in me and my teammates trust me. That meant a lot to me. As good as Shavers was, Indi- ana running back Stephen Hous- " GOLDANDBLACK EXPRESS • VOLUME 23, EXPRESS 13 • 27