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No. 1 Ohio State Heads to Purdue this Saturday
11/4/2025 7:52:00 AM | Football
FIRST AND TEN
- Ohio State, unbeaten at 8-0 and 5-0 in the Big Ten Conference, travels to West Lafayette, Ind., for a 1 p.m. game Saturday against the Purdue Boilermakers (2-7; 0-6 Big Ten) at Ross-Ade Stadium.
- The game will be televised nationally on the Big Ten Network.
- Ohio State has the longest winning streak in the nation at 12 consecutive games.
- This is the fourth 10-plus game winning streak for Ryan Day-coached Ohio State teams with 16 consecutive wins in 2018-19, 12 consecutive wins this year and also in 2021-22, and 11 consecutive wins in 2023.
- Ohio State last played a night game on the Big Ten Network on Sept. 7, 2024, vs. Western Michigan, a 56-0 Buckeye victory.
- Ohio State leads the all-time series with Purdue, 42-15-2, although the Boilermakers have five wins at Ross-Ade since 2000.
- Ryan Day's 51-5 Big Ten Conference record includes a 3-0 record vs. Purdue: a 59-31 win in 2021 in Columbus, 41-7 at West Lafayette in 2023, and 45-0 in Columbus last year.
- The teams will next play in the regular season in 2027 in Columbus.
BY THE NUMBERS
4-5: Ohio State is 4-5 against Purdue this century in games played in West Lafayette, Ind., including an unranked Purdue team victorious over No. 2 Ohio State, 49-20, in 2018 for the only loss that season.
100s: Ohio State is 89-11 overall in its last 100 games dating back to the 2017 Cotton Bowl victory over USC, and the Buckeyes are 91-9 in their last 100 Big Ten Conference games, dating back to the 2013 season.
23x: Ohio State, in its 136th season of football, has started a season unbeaten at 8-0 23 times through the years, including 11 times in the last 25 years and four times in Ryan Day's seven seasons as head coach.
50+: Ohio State's defense is No. 1 in the nation in scoring defense allowing 6.9 points per game. The 55 points allowed is the fewest in over 50 years, or since the 1973 team allowed just 20 points through eight games.
MAXIMIZING THE TIGHT ENDS
Max Klare leads a terrific tight end unit for the Buckeyes with 21 catches for 210 yards and one TD. The five Ohio State tight ends who've played have combined for 37 catches and 370 receiving yards with four catching a TD pass, including two by Will Kacmarek and one apiece by Jelani Thurmond and Bennett Christian. Ohio State is one of three teams with four TEs with TDs.
BEST IN THE CFP ERA
Since the start of the College Football Playoff era in 2014, Ohio State …
- Has the best winning percentage at .889 (137-17); Alabama is second at .882, 143-19;
- Has the fewest losses with 17 (Alabama, 19); and
- Has the second-most wins with 137; Alabama has 143 and is followed by Ohio State, Georgia (133) and Clemson (132).
ARVELL REESE: NATIONAL/BIG TEN DPOW
- Linebacker Arvell Reese led another tenacious Ohio State defensive effort in the win over Penn State with career-highs of 12 tackles and 2.5 tackles-for-loss with one sack.
- Reese, who leads Ohio State with 54 tackles on the season and is second in TFLs (9-44) and quarterback sacks (6.5-41), and the Buckeyes limited the Nittany Lions to 200 yards of total offense for the game with minus-21 rushing yards in the second half and only 60 total second half yards.
- Ohio State outscored Penn State, 21-0, in the second half after leading by three at the half, 17-14.
- Reese was named the Chuck Bednarik national defensive player of the week and the Big Ten Conference defensive player of the week for his efforts.
JULIAN SAYIN: NINE WEEKLY AWARDS
- For the third time this season, and the third time in the last four games including vs. Minnesota and Wisconsin, Julian Sayin threw for over 300 yards (316), completed at least 80 pct. of his passes (20-23; .869) with at least three touchdowns – he had four – and no interceptions. This coming in the game Saturday vs. Penn State.
- Sayin had two 57-yard completions on the afternoon – one each to Jeremiah Smith and Carnell Tate – and in the process increased his nation's best completion pct. from 80.0 pct. to 80.7 pct.
- Sayin was named the Big Ten's freshman of the week for the fourth time and this is his ninth weekly honor this season.
BUCKEYES / BOILERS BULLETS
- Brent Musburger's "Holy Buckeye" broadcast call during Ohio State's 2002 national championship season came against Purdue on Nov. 9 of that year – 23 years ago – at Ross-Ade Stadium after Craig Krenzel and Michael Jenkins saved the day and season with a 37-yard TD hookup with 1:36 left to play.
- Purdue's win in 2018 snapped a 12-game Ohio State winning streak and kept a 12-1 Big Ten champion Ohio State team out of the College Football Playoffs.
- The 2023 game against Purdue at Ross-Ade Stadium was the first exclusively "streamed" Ohio State football broadcast, and the first not televised live via a traditional network in 315 games, or since the 1996 tape-delayed (CBS) game at Minnesota.
- In 2012 at Ohio Stadium, Buckeye backup QB Kenny Guiton led Ohio State on a game-tying 61-yard TD drive with less than a minute remaining to force OT. Ohio State would ultimately prevail over Purdue, 29-22, to preserve what would become only the sixth undefeated/untied team in school history at 12-0.
- Guiton, now the QB coach at Wisconsin, connected with Chris Fields for the tying touchdown and Jeff Heuerman for the two-point conversion and then engineered a TD drive in OT for the win.
- WRs Brandon Inniss and Carnell Tate each caught his career-long reception at Purdue in 2023: Inniss's was a 58-yard touchdown reception while Tate had a 55-yard reception. Tate topped his 55-yarder with a 57-yard catch last week vs. Penn State.
