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Here are the best bets for this week’s college football slate.

Purdue coach Ryan Walters never underestimated what his Boilermakers could do when they played clean, complementary football. Hudson Card threw two touchdown passes, Devin Mockobee, Dylan Downing and Tyrone Tracy Jr. all had TD runs and Purdue used a 21-point third-quarter scoring flurry to pull away from Illinois 44-19 and give Walters his first home victory Saturday.

Join us today on WLFI.com at 2 p.m. for Gold and Black Live! Special guests will be Purdue athletics’ Tim House and FB rules expert Trent Johnson.

Doctors at a state mental hospital say a Purdue University murder suspect is competent for trial. But attorneys for Ji Min Sha disagree.

CropLife America has decided to part ways with President and CEO Chris Novak, who has headed the pesticide industry organization since August 2018.

There have been highs and lows from the first month of the college football season. Here are the award winners worth mentioning.

Here are the best bets for this week’s college football slate.

Nevada and Fresno State are programs going in the opposite directions. The 25th-ranked Bulldogs (4-0) come into their Mountain West opener against the Wolf Pack on a 13-game winning streak that has vaulted them into the AP poll for the first time this season. Nevada (0-4) comes into the game Saturday night in Fresno in far different circumstances, having lost 14 straight games for the longest active losing streak in the FBS.

Colston Loveland was a small-town star in southern Idaho, honing his pass-catching far from the empires of major college football, when he experienced the defining moment halfway through his prep career. “I was a little bit too big for receiver,” Loveland said, “so my junior year I started putting my hand in the dirt and playing more tight end.” Big-time recruiters began flocking to Gooding High School.

Penn State shut out Iowa, which may not be the hardest job in the world, but still beats what Michigan has been able to do, making Nittany Lions No. 1