Time, TV revealed for Purdue football's game at Notre Dame, a marquee test in Barry Odom's rebuild
The Fighting Irish announced Monday the Sept. 20 game against the Boilermakers in South Bend will kick off at 3:30 p.m. NBC will broadcast the game.
The longtime in-state rivals are in the third year of a series which is scheduled to continue through at least 2028. That agreement started with a game in South Bend in 2021 and resumed with last season's game at Ross-Ade Stadium.
This will be only Purdue's second game at Notre Dame since 2012. The teams played annually from 1946 through 2014 before pausing the series.
This will be Barry Odom's first game against Notre Dame as Purdue coach. The Fighting Irish won 66-7 in Ross-Ade last season — a historically embarrassing result which triggered the beginning of the end for former coach Ryan Walters.
Notre Dame, which lost to Ohio State in last year's national championship game, has won nine straight games in the series. Purdue's last victory came in 2007. It last won in South Bend in 2004.
Purdue plays nonconference games against Ball State and Southern Illinois to open the season. It plays Big Ten opponent USC at home before traveling to Notre Dame. An idle week follows that game before conference play resumes.
The Boilermakers' next game is also for a traveling trophy — The Cannon against Illinois. It closes the season with the Old Oaken Bucket game against Indiana.
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