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Purdue hosted Eastern Michigan on Saturday, on a relatively cheap guarantee game (about $500k) featuring a team that has, shall we say, struggled both on the field and in the trustee meetings.

Oops.

Chad Ryland delivered Eastern Michigan a thrilling victory over the Purdue as time expired on Saturday.

The freshman kicker made the late go-ahead field goal from 24 yards to lift the Eagles over the Boilermakers 20-19.

Splice the main brace!

Closer to home, the Northern Huskies could not complete the upset, hosting Utah, a team among the "others receiving votes," in the first of a home-and-home series that hasn't yet been overturned in favor of a Soldier Field game or some other modified better guarantee.