How in the world did Purdue lose to Eastern Michigan?

The 2018 College Football season has not ceased to amaze us. Purdue just went down to Eastern Michigan, and we’re trying to figure out what happened?

If we were to tell you that the Purdue Boilermakers would lose to the Eastern Michigan Eagles on a last-second field goal, at home, you would probably have us checked into a mental institution.

Or have us beat up, whichever one you would have preferred.

Alas, we don’t live in the world of Vegas odds-making and betting. We live in the real world, and in this universe, anything can happen, which actually did happen on Saturday when the Eagles beat Purdue at home on, you guessed it, a last-second field goal.

Fand stayed around at Ross-Ade Stadium wondering what in God’s good name did they just witnessed?

This isn’t supposed to happen, not to a resurgent Purdue football program. A team like Eastern Michigan is not supposed to come into this hallowed stadium and hang around with the far superior Boilermakers, much less have a chance to run out of West Lafayette with a win.

Again, we live in the real world, not the fantasy world.

You can’t argue about the results on the field. Just because a newspaper or sports-betting ring in Sin City says you’re going to win handily, doesn’t mean that it will turn out that way. You have to play the actual game and follow the one cardinal rule in sports:

Never overlook an opponent.

That’s the best answer to the question as to how Purdue walked off the field in shame today. They overlooked an Eastern Michigan squad that was better than what they appeared to be. OK, maybe they’re not the better team against Purdue on paper, but they were on this day; and in the real world of college football, that’s what ultimately counts.