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Purdue Football – 2026 Countdown to Kickoff: #17 – Bisi Owens & Traveon Wright
Bisi Owens Bio Position: WR Height: 6’4” Weight: 217 Hometown: Cooksville, MD High School: Glenelg Former Team: Spent 4 seasons at Penn. Eligibility Remaining: One year College Career 2025 Season – Penn 2026 – Season Outlook Slated to start at WR in his final year of eligibility Owens will come into a WR room […]
Opponent Preview: Week 6 – Minnesota Golden Gophers
Minnesota Golden Gophers Game Information Week: 6 Date: Saturday, October 10, 2026 Location: West Lafayette, Indiana Time: TBA TV: TBA Head Coach – P.J. Fleck Seasons at School (as head coach): 10 Overall Coaching Record: 96-66 Western Michigan (30-22) Minnesota (66-44) 2025 Results Overall Record: 8-5 Conference Record: 5-4 Buffalo: W- 23-10 Northwestern State: W- […]
Hammer and Rails Readers Reacts Survey: Ending the Notre Dame Series
Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NCAA. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Purdue fans and fans across the country. Purdue football has been in a bad way for a number of years now. It’s been roughly since the Eisenhower administration since Purdue won a Big […]
Purdue Football Media Video – 8/17/2026
We begin another week of preseason prep for the 2026 Purdue football season. The season opener against Indiana State is a little over two weeks away and the team has been putting in the work. Today we have a series of updates on the team’s progress, first frome head coach Barry Odom: There is no […]
Boiler Alert! Tommy McClelland’s First Task & Transformation of Penn State
Ryan and I are back to chatting about Purdue football and this time we talk about Purdue’s game against Penn State which in the second half of the season. Purdue will travel to Penn State to take on the Nittany Lions and while Penn State had a down season last year this is not a […]
New Purdue AD Tommy McClelland’s Most Pressing Task: Staff Roundtable
I wanted to reach out to the staff to end this week to see if they had an idea for what the first thing that they want Tommy McClelland to work on as he assumes the role of AD in the coming months. Ledman: I don’t really even need words to give you my opinion. […]
Hammer and Rails Readers Reacts Survey Results: Grading the Tommy McClelland Hire
We’ve reached the end of another week folks. For a lot of people around the state of Indiana and elsewhere it might have meant you sent your kids back to school, you went back to school, or if you’re a teacher you went back to work. So I hope you had a good week. Now […]
Opponent Preview: Week 5 – Illinois Fighting Illini
Illinois Fighting Illini Game Information Week: 5 Date: Saturday, September 26, 2026 Location: Champaign, Illinois Time: TBA TV: TBA Head Coach – Bret Bielema Seasons at Illinois (as head coach): 6 Overall Coaching Record: 134-84 2006-2012 – Wisconsin: 68-24 2013-2017 – Arkansas: 29-34 2021-Current – Illinois: 37-26 2025 Results Overall Record: 9-4 Conference Record: 5-4 […]
Boiler Alert! Purdue Volleyball Preseason & Ryan Walters Returns
Somehow Ryan Walters returned! Or at least that’s how it would have been written if this were a very subpar Star Wars movie. Of course we know that Ryan Walters will return to Ross-Ade Stadium because he is the defensive coordinator of the Washington Huskies who will be traveling to Purdue for a week 7 […]
Staff Roundtable: Purdue’s Hire of Tommy McClelland
We had big news in the Purdue universe of late but of course you all know this. So, I wanted to send out an email to the staff to see what they thought of this hire. Yes, it’s new, yes it’s early, no we can’t know for sure where this will end but it’s time […]
Opponent Preview: Week 4 – Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Notre Dame Fighting Irish Game Information Week: 4 Date: Saturday, September 26, 2026 Location: West Lafayette, Indiana Time: TBA TV: TBA Head Coach – Marcus Freeman Seasons at School (as head coach): 4 Overall Coaching Record: 43-12 2021-2026: Notre Dame – 43-12 2025 Results Overall Record: 10-2 Miami (FL): L – 24-27 Texas A&M: L […]
Purdue Football – 2026 Countdown to Kickoff – #24 – Raderrion Daniels and Izaiah Wright
Raderrion Daniels *Note: Name links to official Purdue Bio. Bio Position: DB Height: 6’1” Weight: 185 Hometown: Memphis, TN Recruiting Class: 2026 Eligibility Remaining: True Freshman – 5 in 5 High School Recruiting Rankings: 3* composite from 247 High School High School Highlights 2026 – Season Outlook Well, for Daniels even if things looked promising going into camp […]
Hammer and Rails Readers Reacts Survey: Grading The Tommy McClelland Hire
Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NCAA. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Purdue fans and fans across the country. This one should be fun based on the comments that we’ve seen on the article Travis wrote. This week I want to have each of you […]
Opponent Preview: Week 3 – UCLA Bruins
UCLA Bruins Game Information Week: 3 Date: Saturday, September 19, 2026 Location: Pasadena, California Time: 11 PM EDT TV: Big 10 Network Head Coach – Bob Chesney Seasons at School (as head coach): 0 Coaching Record at School: 0-0 Overall Coaching Record: 132-52 Salve Regina (23-9) Assumption (44-16) Holy Cross (44-21) James Madison (21-6) 2025 Results […]
Purdue Football Practice Video: August 10
Fall practice is underway as the season kicks off for the Boilermakers in a little over three weeks. Today we have a wealth of video to view, beginning with head coach Barry Odom’s remarks after this morning’s practice: Wide Receiver Xavier Townsend has been a player turning heads so far, and he plays at a […]
Boiler Alert! McClelland Steps In It; Purdue Football Against Minnesota
It was an interesting press conference for the incoming Purdue AD. He said all the right things. Except for one thing. Unfortunately, everyone only remembers the one thing. So that’s bad. But hey, we can turn this into a good thing right? You go on ESPN and talk about it, you raise your profile and […]
Hammer and Rails Reader Survey Results: Men’s Basketball Expectations Post Canada
We’ve made it to the end of another week and that means we are one week closer to both Purdue football and Purdue men’s basketball. And, if you’re in some areas in Indiana it means you’re children (if you have them) went back to school. That’s good for a lot of reasons and if you’re […]
Purdue’s New Athletic Director Said WHAT?
I wasn’t going to write a second thing today, or even this week, but when your brand new athletic director says something so galactically stupid at his own introductory press conference I just cannot help myself. Tommy McClelland was introduced as the New athletic director in West Lafayette earlier today. He won’t officially be on […]
Welcome to Canton, Drew Brees
On Sunday, August 30, 1998 I was walking around campus with a friend of mine from high school. It was on this day that I would get to experience college football for the first time as a college student. It was also the first career start or a sophomore quarterback named Drew Brees, who very […]
New Purdue Athletic Director Tommy McClelland Introductory Press Conference: An Open Thread
You never get a second chance to make a first impression. Or so the saying goes. Well, today is an opportunity for a first impression for newly announced Purdue Athletic Director Tommy McClelland. He landed in West Lafayette yesterday and will officially be introduced as the next man for the job at an introductory press […]
Boiler Alert! Purdue Athletics Gets Their Man and Purdue Football Versus Illinois
The news made official yesterday afternoon that the Purdue athletic department has found their new leader was the first topic covered on today’s podcast. Frankly, there wasn’t a lot to cover on this since we had a lengthy discussion about him on the last podcast but I did incorporate some of the comments made by […]
Opponent Preview: Week 2 – Wake Forest Demon Deacons
Wake Forest Demon Deacons Game Information Week: 2 Date: Saturday, September 12, 2026 Location: Ross-Ade Stadium – West Lafayette, Indiana Time: 12 PM EDT TV: FS1 Head Coach – Jake Dickert Seasons at School (as head coach): 1 Coaching Record at School: 9-4 Other Head Coaching Jobs: 2021-2024 – Washington State (23-20) Overall Coaching Record: […]
Reports: Purdue Has Found Their Next AD
According to ESPN’s Pete Thamel, the Purdue Boilermakers have their next man to lead the Athletic Department locked and loaded with an announcement coming soon. News began emerging yesterday, after what had amounted to complete silence during the search, that not only had Purdue identified their candidate but that a deal was almost in place […]
Purdue Football – 2026 Countdown to Kickoff – #31 – Finn Goodman & Carter Holsworth
Finn Goodman *Note: Name links to official Purdue Bio. Bio Position: DE Height: 6’4” Weight: 230 Hometown: Lake Forest, Ill High School: Lake Forest High School Recruiting Class: 2025 (Walk-On) Eligibility Remaining: 4 Seasons High School Recruiting Rankings: NR High School 2026 – Season Outlook Deep reserve at defensive end and possible special team contributor. He’s certainly […]
Opponent Preview: Week 1 – Indiana State Sycamores
Indiana State Sycamores Game Information Week: 1 Date: Friday, September 4, 2026 Location: West Lafayette, Indiana Time: 7 PM EDT TV: Big 10 Network Head Coach – Curt Mallory Seasons at Indiana State (as head coach): 9 Coaching Record at School: 27-67 Overall Coaching Record: 27-67 2025 Results Overall Record: 3-9 McKendree: W – 41-24 […]
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