26 — 48
FINAL · SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2008
STAR OF THE GAME
81.9
GAME SCORE · PURDUE
77.9
GAME SCORE · NORTHWESTERN

Game Score: one number for how good a player's game was, from that game's box score alone (50 = an ordinary game). Not opponent-adjusted.

TEAM STATS
PURDUENORTHWESTERN
482TOTAL YARDS454
324PASSING YARDS263
158RUSHING YARDS191
6.3YARDS / PLAY5.9
5TURNOVERS3
SITUATIONAL LINE
TeamSuccess %3rd Down %4th Down %Explosive %Red Zone TD %
PURDUE30.2%25.0%0.0%11.6%--
NORTHWESTERN34.5%14.3%--12.7%--
GARBAGE TIME REALITY CHECK
Final Score“Real” Score (before garbage time)
PURDUE2619
NORTHWESTERN4834

This game hit garbage time at Q4 7:23 — 21+ point lead, 14:00 or less remaining. The “real” score is frozen at the last genuinely competitive moment; it never changes any ranking or projection elsewhere on the site (see the Garbage Time Reality Check page for the full leaderboard).

TeamSuccess % (garbage-time-weighted)3rd Down % (garbage-time-weighted)Garbage Snaps / Total
PURDUE30.6%25.0%4 / 43
NORTHWESTERN34.2%6.1%8 / 55

Weighted splits count each garbage-time snap as 35% of a competitive one toward these rates, rather than excluding or fully counting it — see SITUATIONAL LINE above for this game's unweighted numbers.

PURDUE
PASSINGC-ATTCOMP%YDSYPATDINTQBR
CURTIS PAINTER-------273--13--
JOEY ELLIOTT-------35--00--
TOTALS0-0--308--13--
RUSHINGATTYDSYPCTD
CURTIS PAINTER3-14-4.70
JOEY ELLIOTT300.00
KEITH SMITH144.00
KORY SHEETS171689.92
RALPH BOLDEN100.00
TOTALS251586.32
RECEIVINGRECYDSYPCTD
AARON VALENTIN3206.70
DESMOND TARDY88710.90
GREG ORTON710014.31
JOE WHITEST177.00
KEITH SMITH7537.60
KORY SHEETS4317.80
RALPH BOLDEN11010.00
TOTALS313089.91
DEFENSETCKLTFLSACKSINTPDFF
RYAN BAKER------1----
TOTALS000100
NORTHWESTERN
PASSINGC-ATTCOMP%YDSYPATDINTQBR
C.J. BACHER-------220--31--
ERIC PETERMAN-------30--10--
TOTALS0-0--250--41--
RUSHINGATTYDSYPCTD
C.J. BACHER15412.71
JACOB SCHMIDT133.00
OMAR CONTEH8496.11
STEPHEN SIMMONS122.00
TYRELL SUTTON18965.30
TOTALS431914.42
RECEIVINGRECYDSYPCTD
BRENDAN MITCHELL111.01
ERIC PETERMAN45513.81
JEREMY EBERT45513.80
JOSH ROOKS133.00
OMAR CONTEH11111.00
RASHEED WARD166.00
ROSS LANE4276.80
SIDNEY STEWART13030.01
TYRELL SUTTON46215.51
TOTALS2125011.94
DEFENSETCKLTFLSACKSINTPDFF
BRAD PHILLIPS------1----
JORDAN MABIN------1----
SHERRICK MCMANIS------1----
TOTALS000300

Team totals reflect the official box score on file; player lines are the recorded individual statistics for this game.