Here's what they said in the snippet about the rivalry:
What to know: With 126 meetings, Indiana-Purdue ranks second in games played among Big Ten rivalries, behind only Wisconsin-Minnesota. It’s a historic series, but its impact has limited reach.
- Since 1925, the teams have competed for the Old Oaken Bucket. The idea was created through a committee, which felt that a bucket was “the most typical Hoosier form of trophy.” The bucket was found on a southern Indiana farm and its estimated age is 180 years old.
- The teams played 100 consecutive games from 1920-2019 before the series was interrupted by COVID-19. They rescheduled their game multiple weeks in a row, but the infection numbers were too high and it was canceled.
- The teams have played just once as ranked opponents, in 1945. Overall, Purdue has been ranked 14 times (mostly recently 2003) entering the Bucket game, while the Hoosiers have been ranked just six times, including in 2024.
Biggest game: A Rose Bowl bid was at stake for the 1967 finale between No. 3 Purdue and unranked Indiana (the AP ranked only 10 teams that year). The Hoosiers kept the Boilermakers out of the end zone multiple times in the fourth quarter and held on 19-14. The teams finished tied at 6-1 alongside Minnesota atop the Big Ten, and the Hoosiers earned the trip to Pasadena. Indiana finished No. 4 in the final poll while Purdue was ninth.
If you're curious, their top 5 is:
5.) USC / Notre Dame
4.) Army / Navy
3.) Oklahoma / Texas
2.) Auburn / Alabama
1.) Michigan / Ohio State
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Not a bad top-5 list from them.
Agree on their view of IU-PU FB. Just not much action historically between the two schools on the football side.
Thnx. Evan, hard to argue against the top five, but with Coach Cignetti's success this will eventually change.
Thnx. Evan, hard to argue against the top five, but with Coach Cignetti's success this will eventually change.
Hopefully we can dominate PU so that rivalry goes nowhere, and as we get better perhaps form some new rivalries with teams that don't like us competing with them now...
I just can't accept that there are 48 better rivalry football games. Just can't be. What am I missing here??
BEAT PURDUE
Any college football rivalry list that doesn't have Army-Navy as the #1 rivalry is wrong.
It's a solid list, but I agree that I would put Army-Navy #1. Then Harvard-Yale. Then OSU-UM and down from there.
It's a solid list, but I agree that I would put Army-Navy #1. Then Harvard-Yale. Then OSU-UM and down from there.
Army Navy maybe.
I don’t think Harvard or Yale care enough about football for that rivalry to be ranked high. The game is more of a social event and they don’t care much about the outcome.
I just can't accept that there are 48 better rivalry football games. Just can't be. What am I missing here??
Historically, the outcome of that game hasn't mattered to anyone except IU and PU fans. Only rarely has it decided conference champions or major bowls or anything that anyone outside of Indiana would notice. The only way that changes is for both teams to get consistently better, and even then it would take a long time for the perception outside Indiana to change.
It's a solid list, but I agree that I would put Army-Navy #1. Then Harvard-Yale. Then OSU-UM and down from there.
Army Navy maybe.
I don’t think Harvard or Yale care enough about football for that rivalry to be ranked high. The game is more of a social event and they don’t care much about the outcome.
They care. It's not just a social event. And, unlike IU-PU, Harvard-Yale has had an outsized impact on football history.
@unclemark Yea. And even between IU and PU fans, both don't care that much, especially compared to the basketball games.
@unclemark Yea. And even between IU and PU fans, both don't care that much, especially compared to the basketball games.
I sure am hoping that changes. I've always followed IUFB closely, but it's only been fairly recently that I got really cranked up about it. The KW teams were fun and gave me a lot of (dashed) hopes, and then Allen's success -- although a bit flukey -- really got me fired up. Cig has of course blown my socks off. Happy to see them getting good in my twilight years.
@goat I went "The Game" once (at the Yale Bowl). A lot of empty seats, it's probably a better atmosphere at Harvard. It's pretty funny to watch that bunch do the whole "football game" thing for day. I had fun though. Just my take.
@unclemark Yep. It's changing, and we need it keep changing for the good of our athetlic dept. And of course it's really fun for the fans, alumni, faculty, town, etc.
The last 5 before IU-Purdue were:
48. LSU-ARK
47. Michigan-PSU
46, TCU-SMU
45. ND-MSU
44. Iowa-NEB
43. LSU-OL MS
42. VIR-NC
I'd say some games on the list aren't really rivalries, but just match-ups of good teams....AUB-GA; MICH-PSU; LSU-ARK.....some are great traditional rivalries but who cares? games now--Harvard-Yale; STAN-CAL (#29).....They've got NDS-SDS at 39 & Lafayette-Lehigh at 41. If you're going to list them might as well list Depauw/Wabash....then there are interrupted rivalries---Neb/OK; MO/KAN; Pitt/PSU; ORE/OSU. I'm not sure how you rank them. So I think I'd have IU-PUR in my top 35 or so. ...but 21-25 look pretty legit: 21. WASH/ORE; 22 IOWA-WIS; 23 OLE MS/MSU; 24 Clemson/SC; and 25 OK/OK ST.
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