Purdue Boilermakers

The holidays will be happy days for two NFL teams, but there will be some unholy mayhem before the survivors emerge on the Sunday after Christmas. Dan Jenkins and Ron Reid cover the Super Bowl campaign trail.

As someone well versed in the vagaries of college football once said, a cliché is a cliché is a cliché. It was not Ara Raoul Parseghian, a coach who can dish out the hackneyed lines as fearlessly as the next man. But...

Those were the instructions on the Ohio State blackboard, and the Buckeyes followed them perfectly as they locked up Leroy Keyes, held shocked Purdue scoreless and avenged Woody Hayes

The perfume of roses turned out to be heady stuff