Guide Note
While Purdue University's engineering school and its beloved basketball program often hog the limelight, the Boilermakers college football team has also done well for itself at times in its long history, having won the Big Ten Conference eight times and appeared in 15 bowl games.
Fast Facts
- Head coach: Joe Tiller
- Inaugural season: 1887
- Joined league: 1896
- Conference titles: Eight
- Home: Ross-Ade Stadium, West Lafayette, Indiana
- Capacity: 62,500
- Field: Bermuda grass
- All-time: 558-473-48
- Colors: Old gold and black
- Fight song: "Hail Purdue!"
- Bitter rival: Indiana
- 2007 W-L: 8-5 (3-5 Big Ten)
Quarterback U
Purdue has a reputation for grooming some of college football's best-ever quarterbacks. At the top of the list are Super Bowl standouts (and eventual broadcasters) Bob Griese and Len Dawson, and the New Orleans Saints' Drew Brees.
The Latest in NCAA Football
Badgers band suspended from playing at the Ohio State Wisconsin Game, Badgers fall to the Buckeyes 20-17
USC tops Oregon 44 to 10
Vanderbilt upsets Auburn 14 to 13
Oklahoma, LSU, Missouri and Alabama stay atop the AP Poll and Coaches Poll, Ball State ranked for the first time
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