When Purdue coach Barry Odom walks onto the field Saturday in Seattle, he'll see some familiar faces.

Sure, he may chat with Washington defensive coordinator Ryan Walters, a longtime friend who spent four seasons on Odom's defensive staff at Missouri and the previous two years holding the title Odom now owns. He'll almost certainly mingle with Huskies inside linebackers coach Brian Odom, his younger brother and also a former staff member at Missouri.

And Odom knows how difficult those three-plus hours on Saturday will be for himself and his two opponents.

“A number of things are based around relationships and as you change colors, that doesn’t change the relationship,” Odom said, reflecting on his first game against Missouri after the Tigers fired him following the 2019 season. “It

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