The 2016 season's largest margin: Purdue 45, Eastern Kentucky 24. A 21-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2016 — The Correction
2016 is a losing-side chapter for Purdue. The program metabolises it; the voice does not apologize.
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
Who carried it
- David BloughQB3,352 passing yards
- Markell JonesRB616 rushing yards
- Brian Lankford-JohnsonRB314 rushing yards
- DeAngelo YanceyWR951 receiving yards
- Bilal MarshallWR477 receiving yards
- Cameron PoseyWR356 receiving yards
- Markus BaileyLB97 tackles
- Leroy ClarkS82 tackles
- Gelen RobinsonDE61 tackles
- Evan PanfilDE5 sacks
- Austin LarkinDE2.5 sacks
- Jake ReplogleDT2.5 sacks
Season leaders, 2016.
The season's deepest loss: Purdue 7, Maryland 50. A 43-point margin the season is remembered by.
"Boiler Up"
2016 sits in Purdue's crisis ledger. The program does not moralise it. The next season begins the day this one ended and the crisis chapter closes when the ledger does.