During this bowl season I will try to preview each Big Ten Bowl Game. Today has the first match up between Central Michigan vs Purdue at the Motor City Bowl in downtown Detroit, Michigan. It also happens to be one of the bowl games this year where the Big Ten isn't over matched and is actually a favorite by 8 points.
Nothing like going somewhere warm for the holidays as Purdue gets a round trip ticket for 20 degree weather and one of the best stadiums in the NFL. Unfortunately, this will be the only chance most players on the field will get to play in an NFL stadium, so both teams would like to go out with a win.
1st year CMU head coach Butch Jones, would like to pull off the upset and continue his momentum to take over West Virgina's program (where he was an assistant last year). Joe Tiller, just wants to stop getting embarrassed in the State of Michigan as he took a whipping from the Wolverines in October down the road an hour or so.
So how will this play out? Both teams met on 9/15/07 at Purdue and the Boilermakers won easily 45-22. The Chips are better now then in week 2 but they don't have enough to stop Purdue's spread offense run by Curtis Painter, Purdue's Senior QB.
The Chips will be in the game in the 1st half but fade late. Purdue 38 CMU 21
Enjoy the game.
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