Here’s how to watch Indiana football in the Old Oaken Bucket game against Purdue

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The last time an Old Oaken Bucket game in Bloomington had as much national significance as Saturday’s game at 7 p.m. ET was in 1967, when the annual Indiana-Purdue matchup featured a Rose Bowl Offer was at stake.

However, since then, Memorial Stadium has hosted games that may not have had the same national significance, but had important implications in the moment.

In 2016, Indiana had to beat Purdue in its home finale to become bowl eligible. The Hoosiers defeated the Boilermakers 26-24 in what turned out to be Kevin Wilson’s swansong as Indiana coach.

In 2007, at the time of the Old Oaken Bucket game, Indiana had met the bowl eligibility threshold of six wins, but because there were fewer bowls at the time and there were more bowl-eligible teams, six wins did not guarantee a bid. Indiana needed a seventh win and barely got it when an Austin Starr field goal with 30 seconds left pushed the Hoosiers past No. 23 Purdue 27-24.

In 1991, a 24-22 victory over Purdue secured a trip to the Copper Bowl. Conversely, a 15-14 loss to Purdue in 1989 denied Indiana a successful season and might have dealt a fatal blow to Anthony Thompson’s Heisman Trophy chances.

What is the common theme of all these games? They were all close.

The task on Saturday for Indiana will be to avoid a loss, but also to avoid a close game against the Boilermakers. Indiana’s tenuous position right inside the College Football Playoff bubble would make a narrow win for the CFP a potential Pyrrhic victory.

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How to watch Indiana vs. Purdue

• WHO: Indiana Hoosiers (10-1, 7-1) vs. Purdue Boilermakers (1-10, 0-8)

• What: Indiana, ranked No. 10 in the College Football Playoff rankings, will look to maintain its spot in the CFP. Purdue will look to retain the Old Oaken Bucket and avoid a winless Big Ten season.

• When: 7:00 p.m. ET on Saturday, November 30th.

• Where: Memorial Stadium, Bloomington.

• TV: FS1.

• Announcer: Tim Brando (play-by-play), Devin Gardner (analyst), Josh Sims (sideline).

• Radio: Indiana Hoosiers Sports Network, Sirius XM (Channel 83)

• Radio announcer: Don Fischer (play-by-play), Buck Suhr (analyst), John Herrick

• Distribution of points: Indiana is the favorite by 29.5 points and the over/under is 56.5 points.

• Current results: Indiana lost 38-15 at Ohio State last Saturday. Purdue lost 24-17 at Michigan State last Friday.

• Series history: Purdue leads 77-42-6. Indiana last won the series in 2019 and hasn’t won in Bloomington since 2016.

• Quarterback matchup: Kurtis Rourke had his lowest performance of the season in the loss to Ohio State. Rourke passed for just 68 yards and completed 44.4% of his passes. This season, Rourke has completed 69.9% of his passes for 2,478 yards, 21 touchdowns and just 4 interceptions.

In contrast, Purdue quarterback Hudson Card posted his best yardage performance of the season in the Boilermakers’ loss to Michigan State. Card passed for 342 yards, one touchdown and one interception. Card played nine games for Purdue and completed 58.7% of his passes for 1,606 yards, nine touchdowns and six interceptions.

• Weather: According to Weather.com, it will be 30 degrees and cloudy in Bloomington at 7 p.m., with a 24% chance of thunderstorms and a west-southeast wind at 6 mph.

Meet the trainers

• Ryan Walters, Purdue: Walters is 5-18 in his second season as head coach at Purdue. Before becoming the head coach at Purdue, Walters was the defensive coordinator at Illinois from 2021 to 2022. From 2015 to 2020, he served on Missouri’s staff as defensive coordinator or co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach. Walters, who played at Colorado from 2004 to 2008, was also on the team at Colorado (2009), Arizona (2010-11), Oklahoma (2012), North Texas (2013) and Memphis (2014).

• Curt Cignetti, Indiana: Cignetti, 10-1 at Indiana and 129-36 in his career, enters his first season at Indiana with a 52-9 overall record after five years at James Madison. During his first three seasons at James Madison, the Dukes reached the FCS national championship once and the semifinals twice. After promotion to the FBS, they went 19-4 under Cignetti. Prior to JMU, he had a 14-9 record in two seasons at Elon and a 53-17 record in six seasons at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Before becoming head coach, he was wide receivers coach and recruiting coordinator at Alabama under Nick Saban from 2007 to 2010 and held various assistant coaching positions at NC State from 2000 to 2006. Other previous stops include Pittsburgh, Temple, Rice and Davidson. Cignetti played quarterback at West Virginia from 1979 to 1982. His father, Frank, is in the College Football Hall of Fame.