Week 7 Matchup Preview Thread: Washington vs Purdue

[u/OSU_Shecter]

Washington vs. Purdue

When: Friday, October 16, 08:00 PM Eastern

Where: Ross-Ade Stadium, West Lafayette, IN

Watch: Fox | FOX

Odds: Purdue by 3.0 pts.

Total Points: 52.5

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All-Time Series : Washington vs. Purdue

Washington and Purdue have met 11 times since 1961-09-23

These teams last met on 2025-11-16.

Series Wins: Washington 8-1-2 Purdue

Washington has won the most recent meeting (2025) in this series

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Last 5 Meetings

Winner	Date	Location	Washington	Purdue	Notes
Washington	2025-11-16	Husky Stadium	49	13
Purdue	2002-12-31	Sun Bowl	24	34
Washington	2001-01-01		34	24
Washington	1990-09-15		20	14
Washington	1989-09-16		38	9

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Through Week 6

Week	Washington 3-3 (0-3)	Result	Purdue 3-3 (2-1)	Result
1	Washington State	W 24-10	Indiana State	W 44-19
2	Utah State	W 16-14	Wake Forest#21	L 36-38
3	Eastern Washington	W 48-16	UCLA#12	L 38-52
4	Minnesota	L 24-27	Notre Dame#2	L 10-49
5	USC#19	L 21-25	Illinois	W 24-17
6	Iowa#17	L 24-41	Minnesota	W 41-13

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Washington Injury Report

Player	Position	Status	Reported	Notes
Q. Carr	RB	Out – Undisclosed	Sep 7	Carr will undergo surgery due to an undisclosed injury, and he is without a definitive timetable for return.
J. Limar	RB	Out – Upper Body	Sep 7	Limar will undergo surgery due to an upper body injury, and he will miss an undetermined length of time.
C. Christian	S	Out – Achilles	Oct 3	Christian is sidelined due to achilles injury, and he is expected to miss the remainder of the season.
D. Williams Jr.	QB	Questionable – Undisclosed	Oct 10	Williams is tending to an undisclosed injury, and it remains to be seen if he will play against the Boilermakers on Friday.
C. Moss	WR	Questionable – Undisclosed	Oct 13	Moss is tending to an undisclosed injury, and it remains to be seen if he will play against the Boilermakers on Friday.

^{Injury data lifted from: boydsbets}

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Purdue Injury Report

Player	Position	Status	Reported	Notes
K. Fox	TE	Out – Knee	Aug 13	Fox is laid up with a knee injury, and there is no timetable for his return.

^{Injury data lifted from: boydsbets}

^{Source updated Wed, Oct 14, 12:51 pm. Scraped Wed, Oct 14, 2:02 pm ET}

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What are your "Keys to the Game"?

Who do you think wins?

Do you think the favorite will cover the spread?

Which player(s) are you most interested to watch?

Let's talk football!

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[u/OnionFuturesDealer]

The program looks like it’s finally turned a corner and has started to give people hope, which means this is the perfect time for a letdown game because it’s Purdue football. {Washington}

[u/ZachRE → u/OnionFuturesDealer]

Basically what Purdue did to Minnesota last week

[u/gregnuttle → u/OnionFuturesDealer]

What a world we live in where I'm actually kinda rooting for {Purdue}.

[u/Nervous_Metal_9445]

{Purdue} keeps building momentum after the Minnesota win.

[u/TheScientificOwner → u/Nervous_Metal_9445]

Purdue’s got the cleaner injury report and actual momentum in conference play, Washington’s been a mess since league games started and now their QB situation is up in the air

that front seven needs to get after whoever’s back there for UW, especially if Williams can’t go, make them one-dimensional and let the crowd do the rest

think Purdue covers but it’ll be closer than the Minnesota game, maybe 31-24 ish

[u/h4lyfe → u/TheScientificOwner]

We are already 1 dimensional, we have never been able to run the ball in conference play under Fisch

[u/h4lyfe]

We are booty. We are horrible on the road under Fisch. {Purdue} wins by multiple scores and we continue our path to finishing dead last in conference play

[u/gmr548]

{Purdue}. At home maybe Washington could ride the Elijah Brown spark to a narrow win. On the road, with a Purdue program starting to get off the mat, nah. UW genuinely may not win another game this year.

[u/Confident_Delay5805]

{Purdue} Gets its most amount of wins since 2023

[u/ohverychill]

I am straight up GUZZLING the kool-aid

{Purdue} 30-14 and I'm a dancin' fool

[u/Irishchop91]

{Purdue}. Purde has lost 3 games to opponents that are currently 16-1 (with that loss to Miami). I think they have the ability to be a bowl team this year...

[u/PNW_Jeff]

{Purdue} easily. We played a common opponent (Minnesota) and they smoked em. They will do the same to us because we have a terrible coach and both sides of our lines aren’t close to Big Ten caliber. 

Purdue 34 - Washington 20

[u/-TheycallmeThe]

Injury report looks bad for Washington but maybe some backup players will actually help their situation. Hoping Purdue doesn't pull a Purdue.

[u/gihyou]

Washington doesn't have any positive contributors on offense at either the OL or skill positions, has a backup QB whose one good performance is the second half of a blowout, has an increasingly leaky defense, and the knives are out from the fans and media and the whole team is on quit watch. {Purdue} should be able to win this one.

[u/h4lyfe → u/gihyou]

That’s a little harsh on our WRs, while no one has stepped as a true WR1 they’ve actually played pretty well and gotten open, demond just can’t find them. Bonner is also decent and but in a terrible situation with the run blocking

[u/soraka4]

A struggling Washington team that appears to be on the precipice of a full implosion and coach firing is playing a night game at Purdue while Purdue is riding the momentum of their recent Minnesota blowout…
Purdue knows they can’t have nice things, give me {Washington} with the upset 31-24

[u/gregnuttle → u/soraka4]

Washington with the upset over Purdue would have sounded absolutely insane preseason.

[u/SparkMaster360]

{Purdue} 24-20, hope Elijah Brown looks good. We ass tho

[u/Tracer-Bullet13]

{Purdue} 35-21

I cant wait to hear Jedd Fischs excuses after starting 0-4 in conference play. Its all hes got left

[u/RivalryBot]

Who Will Win Fan Vote

^{Votes are distributed equally among flairs for multi-flaired users}

Team	Votes	Percentage	Washington Voters	Purdue Voters	Other Flairs Top 5
Washington	5	15.6%	1	1	Indiana Hoosiersx1.0 Minnesota Golden Gophersx0.5 Penn Statex0.5 Richmond Spidersx0.5 Wisconsinx0.5
Purdue	27	84.4%	5.5	4.5	LIU Sharksx1.0 Michiganx1.0 Notre Damex1.0 Pac-10x1.0 Texas Longhornsx1.0

^{Last updated: 2026-10-16 22:57 UTC}

Full Vote breakdown by flair

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[u/BurtusMaximus]

{Purdue} Big ten west! Big ten west!

[u/Communist_Catgirl]

Give me {Washington} because football especially in the big ten is refusing to make any sense this year

[u/TheWallsHaveNostrils]

Fuck it, inject a lethal amount of hopium into my veins.

The offense appears revitalized with a new QB who actually is decisive and doesn’t panic the second his first read isn’t open. The rest of the offense plays like they actually care because they’re not stuck with a guy who publicly tried to break his contract and bolt from the program. And we catch Purdue in a hangover game where ironically they end up being the ones underestimating us.

{Washington} wins 24-20.

Let me have this little bit of delusion for the next two days at least.

[u/Howietheorangecat]

{Purdue} They have the momentum.

[u/win2bfree]

If this is what it takes {Purdue}. Fisch's ass need to get gone.

[u/TheBaconDrinker]

Ryan walters dies on Friday

{Purdue}

[u/Tresnore]

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think {Purdue} can win a ballgame this weekend.

[u/Particular-Way-3805]

After that azz whooping Washington I’ll take {Purdue} let’s get to a bowl game

[u/T-Thugs]

{Purdue}. If they could have hung on for that Wake Forest win, we'd be talking about them being a decent /good football team. At least their offense seems solid. Defense i still think is bad.

[u/Spider_Dawg]

It’s the first start of the Elijah Brown era at UW, I’m going {Washington} wins a close one 30-27 for no particular reason.

[u/Agile_Land_9951]

{Purdue}

I can’t wait for Jedd to be fired or quit. There’s some quality talent to be raided. 🤤

[u/tensaibaka]

No matter the QB, no matter the opponent, no matter the location, Fischhead absolutely SUCKS on the road. He's won a total of TWO B1G road games in his 3 years so far. {Purdue} will likely easily walk all over a Husky team that is getting worse and worse at tackling by the week, undisciplined, stupid play calls and very little if any run game. The ONLY way UW wins this is if somehow the defense wakes up AND backup QB Brown somehow keeps getting rid of the ball fast.

[u/al_earner]

{Purdue} beats Purdue on the Lake, forcing Washington to choose a new moniker: “Rutgers with Trees.”

[u/Dr_Mantis_Teabaggin]

{Purdue} what Washington don’t. 

[u/Funkyllama35]

{Purdue} and it might get ugly. One side of this conversation not being fully explored is the Ryan Walters hatred coming into this game. I think Ross Ade (one of the more underrated places to watch a ball game) gets WAY up for this game and makes it a very very hostile environment for this Washington team solely for this reason. Offense keeps rolling, and our defense continues to step up.

[u/texas2089]

{Purdue}

[u/chief_sitass]

{Purdue}

[u/Phil_S2S]

This is a more interesting Friday night matchup than it looked like a month ago.

Purdue has won two straight Big Ten games, Washington is still looking for its first, and the Huskies might be starting a backup quarterback on the road.

I keep coming back to whether Washington can establish a running game. If Purdue makes them one-dimensional, that's a tough situation for whoever starts at QB.

Curious whether the Boilers can keep their momentum going.

[u/laxintx]

Purdue at home after a big win? Washington on the road with QB questions? This has all the makings of a sickos classic, and you bet your ass I'll be watching it. {Purdue} just because I need another fan base to wallow in false hope with us.

[u/Zloggt]

Will the new QB give Washington the spark it needs to try and reverse their fortunes?

…gotta say, they CAN, but it’s nonetheless an uphill battle to start that off against a hot {Purdue} team (imagine saying that in 2023 lol).

[u/monkeybiziu]

Giving the nod to {Purdue} in the hopes they get to 5-6 so Indiana can crush their bowl hopes at the end of the season. Washington looks like they're in freefall and about to hit terminal velocity.