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New Purdue coach Barry Odom tries to make school's big investment pay off with dramatic turnaround
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FILE - Purdue football coach Barry Odom talks to the crowd during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game between Purdue and Indiana in West Lafayette, Ind., Friday, Jan. 31, 2025. - photo by AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File
Three years after playing for a Big Ten title, the Purdue Boilermakers are starting over. They hope to snap the FBS' second-longest losing streak at 11, want to prove last season's 1-11 mark was the aberration and are counting on a new coaching staff and a flurry of transfers to quickly restore the luster to the Cradle of Quarterbacks. It's quite a responsibility for new coach Barry Odom but he says he is already seeing progress.