Nebraska will begin its preparation for Saturday’s road game at Purdue as a 3.5-point favorite, according to the Circa Sportsbook in Las Vegas, which debuted the line on Sunday afternoon.

Both teams will enter Saturday’s game off forgettable performances. Nebraska dropped a 38-31 decision to Indiana on Saturday at home, losing despite totaling more than 500 yards of offense. Purdue comes in to Saturday’s contest at 2-6 overall and 1-4 in Big Ten play. The Boilermakers dropped a 24-6 decision on Saturday at home to Illinois in a game where neither team eclipsed the 300-yard mark in total offense.

There will be plenty of questions surrounding Nebraska's roster heading into Saturday's matchup with the Boilermakers. All three of Nebraska's scholarship quarterbacks are injured in some form or fashion, and who will emerge as the starter likely won't be known until later in the week. Adrian Martinez hasn't played since the second half of the win over Northwestern. Martinez was available for the Indiana game, and was almost pressed into action after both Noah Vedral and Luke McCaffrey suffered injuries during the game.

Vedral started and finished the game, but missed the second and third quarters after appearing to suffer an ankle injury on a quarterback run play. McCaffrey came into the game and played well, finishing 5-of-6 passing for 71 yards and a touchdown, and rushing for 76 yards.

After Saturday's loss to the Hoosiers, Nebraska head coach Scott Frost said his team needs to begin pulling in the same direction.

"They were doing everything we asked them to, but if you look at this week or last week, there’s a difference in doing it because we tell them to and doing it because they want to be great," Frost said. "I think we still have some kind of ratio on one side or the other of that fence right now. I told them in the locker room just OK never exists in a locker room that I was in when I was at Nebraska because you were expected to live up to a standard. Our guys are doing the right things, which is a big improvement from last year. But I want guys that live and die for it and want to be great and are tough. I don’t want guys that go out in Minnesota with hoodies on and everything for warm ups. That just says to me just OK is enough, I’m a little cold so I’m going to come out here in that. You got ridiculed and beat up when I was playing if you did that. We’ve got to keep getting tougher, we’ve got to keep getting more talent in here and we’ve got to keep working and we’re just OK right now. I’m not going to be happy with just OK."

Saturday’s game will kickoff at 11a.m. CT and will be televised on FOX.