# @michigandaily on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2023-11-06T19:00:32.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Michigan Daily (@michigandaily) — https://gondola.cc/michigandaily

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#SportsMonday: When Purdue walked into Michigan Stadium, it claimed it was facing an unfair fight.

Not because the No. 3 Michigan football team has largely the same roster that shelled the Boilermakers 43-22 in last year’s Big Ten Championship, nor because Purdue (2-7 overall, 1-5 Big Ten) has struggled this season under new coach Ryan Walters. Instead, the Boilermakers believed Michigan had their play calls as part of ongoing sign-stealing allegations, and Walters was outspoken about this advantage on his Thursday afternoon radio show.

“What’s crazy is they aren’t allegations. It happened,” Walters said Thursday. “There’s video evidence. There’s ticket purchases and sales that you can track back. We know for a fact that they were at a number of our games.”

When Saturday rolled around, Walters had to own up to what he said. As Michigan (9-0, 6-0) faced a Purdue squad whose coach questioned its morals, the Wolverines trounced Purdue 41-13 in response.

Michigan’s win didn’t have the dominant flavor of its previous blowouts. There was no massive first-half lead, and junior quarterback J.J. McCarthy stayed in the game until the backup knelt out the game’s last seconds. But the Wolverines didn’t leave many questions that they would win.

Instead, they first answered them when junior running back Blake Corum punched in two of his three touchdowns to take a 14-0, first-quarter lead, as well as the national lead in rushing scores. The last response came when junior running back Donovan Edwards scored his own fourth-quarter run to make it 41-6. And while Purdue scored a garbage-time passing touchdown to score the most points all season against Michigan’s defense, this last, desperate play only illustrated the Wolverines’ control.

With all the swirling allegations, it’d be easy to assign this to Michigan’s alleged sign-stealing advantage. At least, some folks saw it that way.

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