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my knee and pretty confident in it. I'm not holding it back at all. "I'm trying to get better every day, every practice, every game." Although Bolden didn't have a statistically great day — almost no Boilermaker did — offen- sive coordinator Gary Nord was pleased with his performance. "He did very good in the pro- tection part of it," Nord said. "He's you don't want to read the some of the not-so-good numbers from the past two weeks, we suggest you stop here. If not, If you are a Purdue fan and READ IF YOU DARE still a little out of game shape and we were real careful on the num- ber of reps that he got and we wanted to keep him under 15 to 18 snaps. It's a little sore on him, but we feel like he can increase his numbers a few each week. " Nebraska at Northwestern* Penn State at Iowa Michigan State at No. 23 Michigan* Indiana at Navy Minnesota at Wisconsin Purdue at No. 7 Ohio State* ON TAP SATURDAY Game * Divisional game BYE: Illinois Source: Danny Sheridan, Wednesday WEEK 7 RESULTS Iowa 19, MICHIGAN STATE 16 (2OT) Northwestern 21, MINNESOTA 13 Wisconsin 38, PURDUE 14 MICHIGAN 45, Illinois 0 Ohio State 52, INDIANA 49 Home team in CAPS scored by 55 points in the past two home games. It is the worst beating it has taken on its home turf in consecutive weeks since 1982 in Coach Leon Burtnett's first two weeks as head coach when the Boilermakers lost by a com- bined 55 points (35-14 vs. Stan- ford and 36-10 by Minnesota). It was also the most deci- here goes: R Purdue has been out- BIG TEN RESULTS/SCHEDULE Time (ET) Noon Noon 3:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. 8 p.m. CBS Sports Net. NAVY -3 ABC/ESPN2 BTN ESPNU WIS -18.5 ABC/ESPN2 OSU -19 BTN TV Line IOWA -3.5 MICH -10 NEB -6 sive losses in back-to-back home games since 1990 when Purdue lost by 40 to Ohio State and 25 to Michigan, but that season there was a road game in between. R It was the most lopsided 2 Ohio State dominated 42-14. R Nineteen times since 1970 an individual opponent has rushed for more than 200 yards against Purdue. During that pe- riod it has never happened in back-to-back weeks as it has in the past two games by Robin- son and Ball. In fact, it has only happened twice in the same season once, back in 1995 when Minnesota's Chris Darkins and Michigan Legends Division Team Iowa Northwestern Nebraska Michigan State Minnesota Ohio State* Penn State* Wisconsin PURDUE Indiana Illinois defeat Purdue has suffered on Homecoming since 1996 when No. Northwestern's Darnell Autry accomplished the feat. Darkins are the only two players to rush for more than 200 yards twice against Purdue. Wis- consin has had more individu- als (five) than any other team. Michigan State, Minnesota and Indiana with each have had three. Robinson's Ball and was the seventh-best effort 235 BIG TEN STANDINGS (As of Oct. 17) Big Ten/Pct. Division/Pct. Leaders Division Team 2-0/1.000 2-0/.000 2-1/.667 1-1/.500 1-2/.333 0-2/.000 2-0/1.000 0-0/.000 1-0/1.000 0-0/.000 0-1/.000 0-2/.000 * Ineligible for postseason play Big Ten/Pct. Division/Pct. 3-0/1.000 2-0/1.000 2-1/.667 0-2/.000 0-3/.000 0-3/.000 1-0/1.000 1-0/1.000 2-0/1.000 0-1/.000 0-1/.000 0-2/.000 yards Overall/Pct. 4-2/.667 4-2/.600 6-1/.833 4-2/0.667 4-3/.571 4-2/.667 Overall/Pct. 7-0/1.000 4-2/.667 5-2/.714 3-3/.500 2-4/.333 2-5/.286 Ralph Bolden, shown here on his first attempt, made his return to the Boilermaker lineup, but had only seven yards rushing on four carries. Tom Campbell against Purdue in the past 42- plus years; Ball is the fourth. Eric "The Flea" Allen holds the single-game rushing record against Purdue with 350 yards set on Oct. 30, 1971. With Ball and James White, who had 124 yards on the ground, the Badgers had the first multiple 100-yard rushers against the Boilermakers in the same game since 2006 when Il- linois quarterback Juice Williams (145) and running back Pierre Thomas (105) accomplished the feat. The last time two running backs broke the century mark on the ground against Purdue was in 1995 when Michigan State's Scott Greene (161) and Marc Re- naud (111) did it. Coincidentally, Purdue won GOLDANDBLACK EXPRESS • VOLUME 23, EXPRESS 7 • 32