13 players in FBS @NCAAFootball rushed for 100+yards in both of their team’s first two games this season, including @BoilerFootball’s @zhorvath_. Five did so in the first three games.
Purdue’s third game is Saturday night vs. Northwestern. #BoilerUp#BoilerNotes
The (former) Walk-Ons
Over the last 3 games, @AOC44 & @zhorvath_
▪️1st ever @BoilerFootball game with 400-yd passer & 150-yd rusher
▪️School-record road game comp% (min. 20 att)
▪️1st 3-gm 100-yd rush streak since '07
▪️1,061 pass yds, 65.7% comp
▪️349 rush yds, 11 total TDs
Each of the last 3 games @JeffBrohm has been on the sidelines (at ILL, vs. IND, at WIS), @BoilerFootball has had multiple players with 100+ receiving yards.
▪️ILL: Bell (122), Wright (100)
▪️IND: Hopkins (142), Bell (136)
▪️WIS: Hopkins (127), Bell (108)
#BoilerUp#BoilerNotes
Through 2 games, transfer DL @DaMarcus_M leads @BoilerFootball in solo tackles (10) and total tackles (17), and is tied for the team lead in tackles for loss (2.0). #BoilerUp#BoilerNotes
Aidan O’Connell’s (@AOC44) 82.9% completion percentage (29 for 35) at Illinois is a @BoilerFootball program record for the highest completion percentage in a road game (min. 20 attempts). #BoilerUp#BoilerNotes
.@AOC44’s 82.9% (29 for 35) completion % at Illinois is the 4th best in a single game (min. 20 attempts) in @BoilerFootball history.
The % ranks No. 2 for games with 30+ pass attempts (behind @drewbrees’s 31 for 36 performance vs. Minnesota in ‘98). #BoilerUp#BoilerNotes
The @BoilerFootball defense has yet to allow a point in the 1st or 3rd quarter of a game.
Purdue is the only team in the country that has played multiple games and not given up a point in the first 15 minutes of either half. #BoilerUp#BoilerNotes
This season, @BoilerFootball has passed the ball on 61.1% of its plays. That is the fourth highest rate in the country.
Last season, Purdue threw the ball on 61.7% of plays, the 3rd highest rate.
#CradleOfQuarterbacks#BoilerNotes#BoilerUp
Through 2 games, @BoilerFootball opponents have driven inside the red zone 12 times and scored on 7 of those occasions, including just 4 touchdowns.
That 58.3% score rate is 4th lowest in the country, while the 33.3% TD rate is 3rd lowest. #BoilerNotes#BoilerUp
The 24 points given up by the #Hawkeyes today at Purdue matches last season's high (3x). Iowa was 2-1 in those games (at WIS, at NEB, vs USC) but the Hawks also won games with scores of 18, 20, 23 & 19.
.@DB3LL's 121 receiving yards against Iowa marks his fourth straight game with at least 100 receiving yards.
That ties a @BoilerFootball 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝 (also Rodney Carter: 4 in 1985; Keith Smith - 4 in 2009). #BoilerUp#BoilerNotes
David Bell had 3 TD catches against Iowa. It's the 15th time in school history that a @BoilerFootball player had at least 3 TD catches in a game.
The last time a Boiler had 3 in a game was Terry Wright (vs. Iowa, 2018).
The school record is 4 (Reggie Arnold, vs. Iowa, 1977).
Zander Horvath rushed for 129 yards against Iowa.
His total is the most for a Boilermaker against Iowa since Mike Alstott rushed for 138 against the Hawkeyes in 1994.
Horvath is @BoilerFootball's first 100-yard rusher against Iowa since Ralph Bolden in 2012 (102 yds). #BoilerUp
240,000 miles: the distance of the longest touchdown in human history. That was Neil Armstrong 51 years ago today.
The longest touchdown (from scrimmage) for @BoilerFootball?
99 yards: @drewbrees to Vinny Sutherland at Northwestern (9/25/99). #BoilerUp