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Know your foe Purdue: Which Boilermakers could give Ohio State problems

Who on Purdue scares you the most #GoBucks

Let’s be honest here, as an [autotag]Ohio State football[/autotag] fan, the depth of [autotag]Purdue[/autotag] knowledge isn’t very high.

The Boilermakers aren’t a team that is vying for anything nationally, they have first-year head coach in [autotag]Ryan Walters[/autotag] and are currently just 2-4 on the season. What they have going for them is that the Buckeyes have not fared very well playing in West Lafayette, since 2000, Ohio State has a record of 3-5.

Not great results for the Buckeyes on the road facing a mid-tier program. The reality of the situation is that Purdue plays up when Ohio State comes to town and these are a few of the Boilers that could give the Buckeyes problems.

Week 5 Big Ten Heroes: Recapping the league’s top performers

Here’s a look at some of the top performers and storylines from across the Big Ten in Week 5.

Finally, the first true week of Big Ten play!

While there have been contests between conference opponents all year so far, Purdue and Penn State decided to get the celebration started off early in Week Zero, there has not been a full week of just Big Ten play until now.

The East is starting to appear to be a four-team race, but not the four teams that we all suspected they would be. Ohio State, Michigan, and Penn State all came away with victories. You’d rather have seen a more convincing win for Penn State, but, at the end of the day, it’s another notch in their win column. The Buckeyes and Wolverines though made easy work of their opponents, Michigan coming into Kinnick Stadium and dominating.

Rather than their in-state rivals Michigan State rebounding from their disappointing loss to Minnesota, it is Maryland starting to build momentum.

Meanwhile in the West, who the heck knows who wants to win the division? Minnesota faltered against Purdue, meanwhile Wisconsin is searching for a new head coach. Paul Chryst was dismissed after the Badgers’ 34-10 loss to Illinois. It looks like the Illini are the most competent in that division.

Five weeks down, plenty more of exciting Big Ten action left. Here are your heroes from Week 5 play.