Team: Purdue Boilermakers
Stadium: Ross-Ade Stadium
Conference: Big Ten
Sport: College Football
Background: Purdue University, referring to the main campus, is a public land-grant university located in West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. It is particularly noted for its schools of engineering and agriculture, and as of recently, for its school of business. Equally renowned and lesser publicized are Purdue's strength in liberal and fine arts. The state of Indiana's school of veterinary medicine is at Purdue. Purdue has six other campuses in other parts of Indiana, of which three campuses are also affiliated with Indiana University. Purdue's School of Technology also has seven satellite locations throughout Indiana.

Purdue's athletic teams are called the Boilermakers. They participate in the NCAA's Division I-A, and in the Big Ten Conference. The team name purports to have come from a former practice of illegally employing industrial workers for its football team. Another story of the name's origin is that it was a derogatory name conferred by another Indiana school, Wabash College, in order to insult the engineering students for being 'rude mechanicals.'