Would it be the biggest upset win in Purdue football history? Would it be the biggest NCAA upset in the past 10 years? I think maybe yes.
Not going to happen but I guess stranger things have happened. Wouldn't that open up a new can of worms?
Wandering minds.
As stated by another Boiler, The 1976 Team beat #1 Michigan:
"All season long Bo Schembechler had been looking for a test. He wanted his top-ranked, unbeaten, unmolested Michigan football team to prove just how good it was – and how good it could be. For eight long weeks he had watched the Wolverines roll to one lopsided win after another. Cakewalks all of them: 352 points for our side, 58 points and multiple abrasions for theirs. It seemed that Schembechler would have to wait until the Ohio State game, as always, for the ultimate challenge.
At least it seemed that way until last Saturday afternoon in Purdue’s Ross-Ade Stadium, once famed as a Notre Dame burial ground. With three straight losses and a 3-5 record, the Boilermakers did not appear to be much of a threat. They were fast losing their reputation as spoilers and, some said, were on the verge of losing their coach, Alex Agase. But throughout the game, as Purdue raised one knotty question after another, Michigan kept coming up with the wrong answer. And when it was over, the Wolverines, you might say, flunked the test 16-14.
The game was decided by two field goals, one the Boilermakers made and one the Wolverines didn’t. There were four minutes, 20 seconds remaining when Rock Supan’s 23-yarder put Purdue ahead."
