City native reflects on Hoosiers career (The Journal Gazette, Fort Wayne, Ind.)
"That’s probably the story of my career, having to be ready," Payton said Tuesday at Memorial Stadium. "When I watched the film, I was like ‘Is that me?’ It was strange and surreal, but it was something I knew I could do. But I hadn’t done it up until that point."

These rivals don't talk trash (Evansville Courier & Press)
"Other than that, you may as well just flip a coin trying to figure out which should have the edge when the Purdue University football team travels to Bloomington for Saturday's 2:30 p.m. game against Indiana. Both are 4-7 going into the battle for the Old Oaken Bucket, one of the nation's oldest football rivalry prizes."

IU will look to Purdue as its bowl game. (Indiana Daily Student)
Ugh.

In the huddle: Purdue (The Indianapolis Star)
"If you're an Indiana coach and you don't know who coach Lynch is, you're not very well-connected in the coaching family," said Joey Elliott, born in 1986. "Anytime I see him, he always comes up and embraces me."  [Hopefully Middleton and Kirlew will be doing the embracing on Saturday.]