Purdue Boilermakers 2017 Football Game Notes 279 NFL Draft Picks | 51 All-American Selections 16 College Football Hall of Famers | 8 Big Ten Championships Purdue (6-6, 4-5 B1G) vs. Arizona (7-5, 5-4 Pac-12) Twitter: @BoilerFootball Twitter: @ArizonaFball Head Coach: Jeff Brohm Head Coach: Rich Rodriguez Record at Purdue: 6-6 Record at Arizona: 43-34 Overall College Record: 36-16 Overall College Record: 163-118-2 Record vs. Arizona: 0-0 Record vs. Purdue: 1-2 Gameday Information Team Comparison }Schedule and Results } } P/O Date Dec. 27 Category Purdue Arizona Date Rank Opponent TV Time/Result Kickoff Time 8:30 p.m. ET Pts/Gm 23.5 41.8 S2 -/16 vs. Louisville* Fox L, 28-35 Location Santa Clara, California Opp Pts/Gm 18.9 34.1 S8 -/- Ohio FS1 W, 44-21 Venue (Capacity) Levi’s Stadium (68,500) Rush Yds/Gm 139.9 324.4 S16 -/- at Missouri SECN W, 35-3 Television Fox Pass Yds/Gm 244.8 170.1 S23 -/8 Michigan^ Fox L, 10-28 Play-by-Play Joe Davis Total Def/Gm 359.5 464.2 O7 -/- Minnesota ESPN2 W, 31-17 Analyst Brady Quinn Returning Starters O/D 5/8 7/7 O14 -/7 at Wisconsin BTN L, 9-17 Sideline Bruce Feldman O21 -/- at Rutgers BTN L, 12-14 Radio Purdue Sports Properties }Stat Leaders O28 -/- Nebraska BTN L, 24-25 Talent Tim Newton, Pete Quinn, Kelly Kitchel PASSING N4 -/- Illinois BTN W, 29-10 XM | Sirius | Internet 81 | 81 | 81 #2 Elijah Sindelar #14 Khalil Tate N11 -/- at Northwestern ESPN2 L, 13-23 }Purdue Bowl History (9-8 record) 154-276, 1,703 yards, 94-153, 1,289 yards, N18 -/- at Iowa BTN W, 24-15 14 TDs, 6 INTs 9 TDs, 8 INTs N25 -/- Indiana ESPN2 W, 31-24 Jan. 2, 1967 // Rose Bowl RUSHING D27 -/- vs. Arizona% Fox 8:30 p.m. Purdue 14, Southern Cal 13 #8 Markell Jones #14 Khalil Tate All times Eastern 92 rush, 480 yards, 133 rush, 1,353 yards, *Game played at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis Dec. 25, 1978 // Peach Bowl TD, 5.2 ypc 12 TDs, 10.2 ypc ^Homecoming Purdue 41, Georgia Tech 21 RECEIVING %Foster Farms Bowl at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. #33 Jackson Anthrop #6 Shun Brown }social Media Dec. 31, 1979 // Bluebonnet Bowl 44 rec., 391 yards, 39 rec., 511 yards, Facebook Facebook.com/PurdueFootball Purdue 27, Tennessee 22 5 TDs, 8.9 ypr 5 TDs, 13.1 ypr Twitter | Instagram @BoilerFootball DEFENSE Hashtags #BoilerUp | #LetsPlayFootball Dec. 27, 1980 // Liberty Bowl #4 Ja’Whaun Bentley #1 Tony Fields II Purdue 28, Missouri 25 89 tkls, 49 solo, 9.5 TFL, 91 tkls, 52 solo, }Purdue Football Quick Facts 2 FF, INT, TD 6.5 TFL, 4 sacks, INT Location West Lafayette, Indiana Founded 1869 Dec. 31, 1984 // Peach Bowl }NCAA TEAm Ranks Virginia 27, Purdue 24 Conference Big Ten Purdue Arizona Colors Old Gold and Black Rushing Offense 82 3 Nickname Boilermakers Dec. 30, 1997 // Alamo Bowl Purdue 33, Oklahoma State 20 Passing Offense 55 109 President Mitchell E. Daniels Jr. Total Offense 75 12 Athletics Director Mike Bobinski Scoring Offense 97 6 Head Coach (Year) Jeff Brohm (1st) Dec. 29, 1998 // Alamo Bowl Red Zone Offense t-29 35 Alma Mater Louisville (1989) Purdue 37, Kansas State 34 Assistant Coaches: Rushing Defense 30 87 Brian Brohm (Co-Offensive Coordinator/QBs) Jan. 1, 2000 // Outback Bowl Pass Efficiency Defense 45 82 Nick Holt (Co-Defensive Coordinator/LBs) Georgia 28, Purdue 25 Total Defense 47 116 Tony Levine (Special Team Coordinator/Co-OC/TEs) Scoring Defense 19 109 Anthony Poindexter (Co-Defensive Coordinator/Secondary) Jan. 1, 2001 // Rose Bowl Red Zone Defense 47 19 JaMarcus Shephard (Passing Game Coordinator/WRs) Washington 34, Purdue 24 Chris Barclay (Running Backs) Net Punting 65 129 Derrick Jackson (Cornerbacks) Punt Returns 122 16 Reggie Johnson (Defensive Line) Dec. 31, 2001 // Sun Bowl Kickoff Returns 128 10 Dale Williams (Offensive Line) Washington State 33, Purdue 27 Turnover Margin 49 t-39 Time of Possession 93 92 }Postgame Media Info Dec. 31, 2002 // Sun Bowl The locker room will remain closed following all Purdue 34, Washington 24 Purdue and Arizona rankings are among the football games. Media should request players 129 FBS teams. through Matt Rector during the fourth quarter. Jan. 1, 2004 // Capital One Bowl Georgia 34, Purdue 27 (OT) Head coach Jeff Brohm and four selected players will be available in the media room. Assistant Dec. 31, 2004 // Sun Bowl coaches will not be available. Brohm will speak at the podium first, then players will be made Arizona State 27, Purdue 23 available around the room. Dec. 29, 2006 // Champs Sports Bowl For all other media inquiries, contact Rector. Maryland 24, Purdue 7 }Athletics Communications Dec. 26, 2007 // Motor City Bowl SID Contact Matt Rector Purdue 51, Central Michigan 48 Office | Cell 765.494.3196 | 765.237.1330 Email [email protected] Dec. 27, 2011 // Little Caesars Pizza Bowl Secondary Contact Matthew Staudt Purdue 37, Western Michigan 32 Office | Cell 765.496.7842 | 765.414.1984 Email [email protected] Jan. 1, 2013 // Heart of Dallas Bowl Website PurdueSports.com Oklahoma State 58, Purdue 14 PurdueSports.com | @BoilerFootball | #BoilerUp 1 2017 PURDUE FOOTBALL Foster Farms Bowl Guide PURDUE SCOUTING REPORT That figure essentially was sliced in half this season at 19.3 points per game. In Big Ten Conference games, OFFENSE the makeover was even more incredible: 42.6 to 19.2 First-year points per game (+23.4). The Boilermakers allowed two head coach Jeff touchdowns or fewer in eight games, and they gave up Brohm arrived at only two second-half touchdowns in five road games. Purdue heralded The major reason for the upgrade was rushing for his offensive defense as Purdue went from allowing 238.4 to 133.3 acumen, and his yards per game, the third-best turnaround nationally. ingenuity enabled Seven senior starters were keys to the about- Purdue to find suc- face: tackle Gelen Robinson, ends Danny Ezechukwu cess both running and Austin Larkin, linebackers Ja’Whaun Bentley and T.J. and throwing the McCollum, and cornerbacks Da’Wan Hunte and Josh football. The Boil- Okonye. McCollum and Okonye were graduate trans- ermakers averaged fers. Robinson earned third team All-Big Ten honors 390.4 yards of to- after pacing Purdue with 11.5 tackles for loss. Ezechuk- tal offense (239.5 wu recovered three fumbles (tied for the fourth-most in passing and 150.9 rushing) and 24.2 points per game. the country). Bentley led the way with 89 tackles and Junior David Blough and sophomore Elijah Sin- returned an interception 76 yards for a touchdown to delar split time at qWuarterback before Blough suffered seal the Boilermakers’ 31-14 win over Minnesota on a season-ending injury in early November. Sindelar, who Oct. 7. Okonye and Hunte recorded nine and seven pass is one of just two Football Bowl Subdivision starting breakups, respectively. signal-callers majoring in engineering, wound up com- Sophomore linebacker Markus Bailey put to- pleting 55.8 percent of his passes for 1,703 yards with gether an outstanding all-around season to the tune of 14 touchdowns and merely six interceptions. 78 tackles, including 10 for loss and seven sacks, with Eleven players accumulated double-digit recep- two pass breakups, one interception, one fumble forced tion totals, led by redshirt freshman Jackson Anthrop and one fumble recovered. (44 catches, 391 yards and five touchdowns) and senior Another sophomore, safety Navon Mosley, Anthony Mahoungou (34 catches, 570 yards and six topped the team with two interceptions. touchdowns). In the Boilermakers’ had-to-have-it 24-15 Opponents had 13 fumbles against the Boil- victory at Iowa on Nov. 18, Mahoungou had a career- ermakers, who recovered 10 of them, including six in best game with seven receptions for 135 yards and two Purdue territory – four inside the 10-yard line and three touchdowns. Five of the catches for 118 yards and both inside the 5-yard line. scores came in a span of six plays on the first two pos- sessions of the third quarter, turning a 9-7 deficit into a SPECIAL TEAMS 21-9 advantage in a matter of three minutes. Purdue had three constants on special teams: Junior tight end Cole Herdman caught at least made field goals, touchbacks and trick plays. one pass in every game for the second straight season, Junior Spencer Evans, another transfer, and extending his streak to 28 consecutive contests. sophomore J.D. Dellinger were perfect on field goal at- Four running backs buoyed the rushing attack: tempts of 40 yards or less, going 16 for 16 combined. junior Markell Jones (480 yards, 5.2 average), junior D.J. Of Evans’ 66 kickoffs, 34 were touchbacks (51.5 Knox (460 yards, 5.8 average), sophomore Tario Fuller percent). Last season, Purdue had just seven touch- (261 yards, 6.1 average) and sophomore Richie Worship backs. (257 yards, 4.8 average). Jones erupted for a career-best And special teams coordinator Tony Levine 217 yards – the seventh-most in school history – in the dialed up four fake punts, all resulting in first downs. season finale, a 31-24 bowl-clinching win in the annual None was bigger than junior punter Joe Schopper’s Old Oaken Bucket game against Indiana. 22-yard pass to sophomore Mike Little in the second Junior Kirk Barron, who has started the last 25 quarter against Indiana. It came on fourth-and-3 from games at center, anchored the offensive line, which the Hoosiers’ 43-yard line and led to a touchdown that benefitted from the addition of two transfers – fifth- gave the Boilermakers a 14-7 advantage they would not year senior right tackle David Steinmetz and junior left relinquish.