Purdue did get dicked over at the end of the Minnesota game, so I won't say they're flat out lucky. But they've been really fortunate in some matchups this season:
-They draw Iowa in Spencer Petras's first career game. He's not very good anyway, but he was even way worse the first 2 weeks of the season.
- They play Illinois when the Illini are down to their 4th string QB. That seriously might be the only game he plays in his career for Illinois.
- They get to play Minnesota without 22 scholarship players including 2 starting offensive linemen, which is really the strength of Minnesota's team.
- They get to play Rutgers who had to use their 2nd and 3rd string QB's due to injury of Vedral.
Nebraska will be the first actually healthy team Purdue has faced since Northwestern 3 weeks ago.