{"id":83920,"date":"2022-10-01T15:57:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T15:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/purdue-boilermakers-aidan-oconnell-expected-to-start-vs-minnesota-football\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T15:57:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T15:57:07","slug":"purdue-boilermakers-aidan-oconnell-expected-to-start-vs-minnesota-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/purdue-boilermakers-aidan-oconnell-expected-to-start-vs-minnesota-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Purdue Boilermakers&#8217; Aidan O&#8217;Connell expected to start vs.  Minnesota football"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\"><span class=\"timestamp\" data-behavior=\"date_time\" data-date=\"2022-10-01T13:20:00Z\"><span class=\"time\" data-dateformat=\"time1\" data-showtimezone=\"true\">9:20 AM ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Pete Thamel<span>ESPN <\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Purdue&#8217;s Aidan O&#8217;Connell, one of the top quarterbacks in college football, is expected to return to action against Minnesota on Saturday, sources told ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Connell, listed as a game-time decision for Saturday&#8217;s game (noon ET, ESPN2) with an upper-body injury, is expected to start, sources told ESPN.  He missed last week&#8217;s game against Florida Atlantic and didn&#8217;t practice until Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Purdue&#8217;s offense struggled at times in O&#8217;Connell&#8217;s absence last week, as the Boilermakers gained 354 yards and went just 3-of-12 on third down against the Owls.  Without O&#8217;Connell, Purdue only passed for 166 yards.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>O&#8217;Connell threw for 1,000 yards in Purdue&#8217;s first three games this season, which included a pair of heartbreaking losses to Syracuse and Penn State.  He has eight touchdowns and one interception this season after throwing 28 touchdowns and 11 interceptions last year.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota has the nation&#8217;s No.  2 scoring defense, as the Gophers have given up just 6.0 points per game on the way to a 4-0 start.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9:20 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN Purdue&#8217;s Aidan O&#8217;Connell, one of the top quarterbacks in college football, is expected to return to action against Minnesota on Saturday, sources told ESPN. O&#8217;Connell, listed as a game-time decision for Saturday&#8217;s game (noon ET, ESPN2) with an upper-body injury, is expected to start, sources told ESPN. He missed last &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/purdue-boilermakers-aidan-oconnell-expected-to-start-vs-minnesota-football\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Purdue Boilermakers&#8217; Aidan O&#8217;Connell expected to start vs.  Minnesota football<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[28115],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":64198,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/5-takeaways-from-penn-states-35-31-win-over-purdue\/","url_meta":{"origin":83920,"position":0},"title":"5 takeaways from Penn State&#8217;s 35-31 win over Purdue","date":"September 2, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Penn State rally late for a 35-31 win over Purdue at Ross-Ade Stadium on Thursday night. 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