The 2018 season's largest margin: Purdue 46, Illinois 7. A 39-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2018 — The Correction
2018 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 BloughQB3,705 passing yards
- D.J. KnoxRB883 rushing yards
- Markell JonesRB537 rushing yards
- Rondale MooreWR213 rushing yards
- Isaac ZicoWR743 receiving yards
- Brycen HopkinsTE583 receiving yards
- Terry WrightWR468 receiving yards
- Markus BaileyLB95 tackles
- Navon MosleyS79 tackles
- Derrick BarnesLB72 tackles
- Jacob ThienemanS5 sacks
- Cornel JonesLB3.5 sacks
- Giovanni ReviereDE3 sacks
Season leaders, 2018.
The season's deepest loss: Purdue 14, Auburn 63. A 49-point margin the season is remembered by.
The season's last act: Purdue fell to Auburn 14-63 in the postseason.
"Boiler Up"
2018 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.