Purdue played in the 2001 Rose Bowl. But two seasons earlier, the Boilermakers visited the Rose Bowl, setting the wheels in motion.

Purdue football completed a second straight winless Big Ten season. The Boilermakers also notched their worst two-year stretch in more than a century.

Before a lot of them went on to success at other colleges or the NFL, Purdue's staff under Joe Tiller was unified in a mission to win a Big Ten title.

Purdue signed 21 players on National Signing Day on Wednesday. Here's a look at who is headed to West Lafayette as members of the 2026 recruiting class.

Purdue signed 21 players on Wednesday during the early signing, including 20 high school players and one junior college transfer. Heading into Wednesday, On3 ranked Purdue's 2026 recruiting class 56th nationally and 16th in the Big Ten.

The last two results were poor, but a step back from recency bias shows how the Boilermakers fared and how wide a gap it had when Barry Odom took over.

WEST LAFAYETTE − A Purdue football offense that has lacked consistency this season targeted one of its biggest areas of need with its 2026 recruiting class. Cooper McCutchan's decommitment from North Carolina earlier this month was the Boilermakers' gain.

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