Previewing The Enemy: Purdue Boilermakers

Previewing The Enemy: Purdue Boilermakers

It’s lock-in time for Penn State football.

The Nittany Lions have dropped four straight games and remain winless in the Big Ten, but they can put their first conference win in the books when Purdue comes to town.

Penn State and Purdue both come off bye weeks and share identical 3-4 records. The Nittany Lions’ last game was a hard-fought 21-18 loss to Michigan in Ann Arbor.

The Boilermakers have not beaten the Nittany Lions since 2004, when Kyle Orton was the signal caller for the black and gold. Penn State has an all-time 17-3-1 record against the team from West Lafayette, Indiana.

These two teams last faced off in 2024, but the more memorable matchup came in Week 1 of the 2022 season when Sean Clifford led a game-winning drive under the Friday night lights of Ross-Ade Stadium, clinching a 35-31 victory for Penn State.

The Nittany Lions are 11.5-point favorites, per FanDuel.

The Team

Purdue was an awful football team last season, to put it mildly. The Boilermakers finished the year with an abysmal 2-10 record and went winless in conference play. They were the last Big Ten team to go 0-9 since *checks notes* 2024 Purdue.

2026 has handed the ...