Auburn football and Purdue met for the Music City Bowl in Nashville and as soon as the game started, Auburn slaughtered the overwhelmed Boilermakers.
It was a battle of two teams that ended their season on much different trajectories than they started on between Auburn and Purdue in the Music City Bowl. Auburn started the season as a top ten team, and knocked off Pac-12 champion Washington in the season-opener. However, it never geled together after that for the Tigers as they stumbled to a 7-5 record, which annoyed fans after preseason expectations for a playoff berth.
Purdue’s season started on a much uglier note, starting off the season 0-3 with losses to Northwestern, Missouri and Eastern Michigan. But after that 0-3 start, the Boilermakers won six out of their last nine, highlighted by their demolition of then-#2 Ohio State in West Lafayette to claim a second consecutive bowl bid in year two under Jeff Brohm, who signed a lucrative extension following the regular season.
It was a classic battle of Big Ten vs. SEC that went horribly wrong for the Big Ten. Auburn came out of the gates firing on all cylinders and refused to relent. Scoring an NCAA bowl-record 56 points in the first half on the hapless Boilermakers defense. The game ended in a 63-14 demolition of Purdue at the hands of Auburn. Here are some takeaways worth noting from the Music City Bowl.