BTN.com staff, October 26, 2012
Indiana plays at Illinois while Purdue travels to Minnesota and both games air on BTN/BTN2Go this Saturday. Our editors dove into our online archive of football games featuring these same two matchups and found some great old games, including the 2001 game when the Boilermakers and Gophers took it to overtime.
Watch the previous battles listed below on BTN2Go. We?ve also got another great game Iowa and Northwestern, another Week 9 matchup. From the looks of it in the clip in this post, it was rather chilly that day back in 1995.
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Here are the links to the full games:
2001 Purdue at Minnesota: Watch this game on BTN2Go
Purdue needed an incredible final drive during regulation to send this game to overtime.
2005 Purdue at Minnesota: Watch this game on BTN2Go
Minnesota upset Purdue in a double overtime clash largely thanks to Laurence Maroney's career-high 217 yards rushing on an astounding 46 carries.
1989 Indiana at Illinois: Watch this game on BTN2Go
Indiana running back and Heisman runner-up Anthony Thompson broke the previous NCAA record for career touchdowns (65) during this contest. However, Illini quarterback Jeff George racked up five touchdown passes of his own guiding his teaam to a 41-28 victory. The win helped propel No. 12 Illinois to a 10-2 season.
1999 Illinois at Indiana: Watch this game on BTN2Go
Antwaan Randle-El generates 422 yards of total offense to lead the Hoosiers to an overtime win.
1995 Iowa at Northwestern: Watch this game on BTN2Go
Northwestern looks to win its eighth straight game of the season in this chilly matchup against Iowa.
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Find previous week's links to other archived games in our Big Ten Flashback section.