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Purdue football lost to Rutgers 27-24, extending its losing streak to six games.

Despite some progress, costly mistakes in pass coverage and an inability to close out the first half hurt the Boilermakers.

WEST LAFAYETTE − The same story repeated itself during Purdue football 's Homecoming.

The Boilermakers played well enough to win and bad enough to lose.

Right now, the margin for error is so slim that one or two mistakes are the difference between saying this season was real progress or seeing a two-win season almost as if nothing changed from the prior regime.

The fiasco that was the Boilermakers' final offensive play in a 27-24 loss to Rutgers at Ross-Ade Stadium will be the play people remember, but it wasn't the reason Purdue didn't win.

That Ryan Bro

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