Game Preview: Homecoming vs. Purdue

•  The Hawkeyes will welcome Purdue to Iowa City for Homecoming for the second time in three seasons. Iowa has won 10 of its last 13 Homecoming games dating back to 2009 and is 61-44-5 all-time on Homecoming.
• Saturday’s game is the 1,300th in school history since beginning football in 1889.
• Head coach Kirk Ferentz moved into third place (alone) on the all-time Big Ten wins list. Ferentz has 116 career Big Ten victories, only trailing Ohio State’s Woody Hayes (153) and Michigan’s Bo Schembechler (143). He won his 200th career game on Sept. 9 at Iowa State, becoming the 27th coach to reach the milestone at an FBS institution and just the 99th college coach across all divisions since 1890.
• DB Cooper DeJean was named the Big Ten Special Teams Player of the Week and LB Nick Jackson was tabbed as the Big Ten Co-Defensive Player of the Week after leading Iowa to a 26-16 victory over Michigan State on Sept. 30.
• DeJean had a 70-yard punt return touchdown – the 15th-longest in school history – to break a 16-all tie in the fourth quarter and he had six tackles and his first interception of the season against the Spartans. It was DeJean’s first career punt return for a TD and the first by a Hawkeye since 2020. He is one of 18 players to return a punt for a TD in 2023.
• Jackson had 10 tackles – his second straight 10+ tackle game – and a key forced fumble in the fourth quarter, which led to a game-sealing field goal. He is leading the Big Ten in forced fumbles (2).
• A new age. Saturday’s game will be streamed on Peacock, making it Iowa’s first game on a non-linear network since the 2001 season.

SERIES HISTORY

• Purdue holds a 50-40-3 advantage in the series that began with a 16-0 Iowa win in 1910. The Boilermakers have won four of the last six meetings, but Iowa has won 11 of the last 17 in the series.
• The Hawkeyes won in West Lafayette, 24-3, in 2022. It was Iowa’s largest margin of victory in the series since 2013.
• Iowa is 22-21-2 all-time in games played in Iowa City.
• Iowa and the Boilermakers battled to a 21-21 tie at West Lafayette in 1994. That game marks the last tie game for Iowa before the college football tiebreaker system was put in place.

SERIES RESULTS

10/22/1910 W, 16-0 (H)
11/11/1911 W, 11-0 (A)
11/6/1915 L, 13-19 (A)
10/21/1916 W, 24-6 (H)
10/21/1921 W, 13-6 (A)
10/28/1922 W, 56-0 (H)
10/13/1923 W, 7-0 (H)
11/16/1929 L, 0-7 (A)
10/18/1930 L, 0-20 (H)
11/14/1931 L, 0-22 (A)
11/12/1932 L, 0-18 (H)
11/18/1933 W, 14-6 (A)
11/10/1934 L, 6-13 (H)
11/16/1935 L, 6-12 (A)
11/14/1936 L, 0-13 (H)
10/30/1937 L, 0-13 (A)
10/29/1938 T, 0-0 (H)
11/4/1939 W, 4-0 (A)
11/2/1940 L, 6-21 (H)
10/25/1941 L, 6-7 (A)
10/31/1942 W, 13-7 (H)
10/23/1943 L, 7-28 (#4) (A)
10/21/1944 L, 7-26 (#11) (H)
10/13/1945 L, 0-40 (#15) (A)
9/28/1946 W, 16-0 (H)
11/1/1947 L, 0-21 (#16) (A)
10/16/1948 L, 13-20 (H)
10/1/1949 W, 21-7 (A)
10/21/1950 W, 33-21 (H)
10/6/1951 L, 30-34 (A)
10/11/1952 L, 14-41 (#16) (A)
11/7/1953 W, 26-0 (A)
11/6/1954 W, 25-14 (#8) (H)
10/15/1955 T, 20-20 (H)
10/27/1956 W, 21-20 (A)
10/24/1959 L, 7-14 (#14) (A)
10/22/1960 W, 21-14 (#10) (H)
10/28/1961 L, 0-9 (A)
10/27/1962 L, 3-26 (H)
10/26/1963 L, 0-14 (A)
10/24/1964 L, 14-19 (H)
10/9/1965 L, 14-17 (#6) (H)
10/8/1966 L, 0-35 (A)
10/28/1967 L, 22-41 (#7) (H)
10/26/1968 L, 15-44 (#7) (A)
10/18/1969 L, 31-35 (#17) (A)
10/17/1970 L, 3-24 (H)
10/2/1971 L, 13-45 (A)
10/7/1972 L, 0-24 (H)
11/3/1973 L, 23-48 (H)
11/2/1974 L, 14-38 (A)
11/15/1975 L, 18-19 (A)
11/13/1976 L, 0-21 (H)
10/22/1977 L, 21-34 (A)
10/28/1978 L, 7-34 (#17) (H)
11/3/1979 L, 14-20 (#15) (H)
11/8/1980 L, 13-58 (#17) (A)
11/7/1981 W, 33-7 (H)
11/6/1982 L, 7-16 (A)
10/15/1983 W, 31-14 (H)
10/13/1984 W, 40-3 (#14) (A)
11/16/1985 W, 27-24 (A)
11/15/1986 W, 42-14 (H)
10/24/1987 W, 38-14 (H)
10/22/1988 W, 31-7 (A)
11/18/1989 W, 24-0 (A)
11/17/1990 W, 38-9 (H)
10/25/1991 W, 31-21 (A)
10/24/1992 L, 16-27 (H)
10/30/1993 W, 26-17 (H)
10/29/1994 T, 21-21 (A)
11/1/1997 W, 35-17(#18) (H)
10/31/1998 L, 14-36 (A)
10/6/2001 L, 14-23 (#21) (A)
10/5/2002 W, 31-28 (H)
11/8/2003 L, 14-27 (#16) (A)
11/6/2004 W, 23-21 (H)
10/8/2005 W, 34-17 (A)
10/7/2006 W, 47-17 (H)
10/20/2007 L, 6-31 (A)
11/15/2008 W, 22-17 (H)
11/19/2011 W, 31-21 (A)
11/10/2012 L, 24-27 (H)
11/9/2013 W, 38-14 (A)
11/27/2014 W, 24-10 (A)
11/21/2015 W, 40-20 (H)
10/15/2016 W, 49-35 (A)
11/18/2017 L, 15-24 (H)
11/3/2018 L, 36-38 (A)
10/19/2019 W, 26-20 (H)
10/24/2020 L, 20-24 (A)
10/16/2021 L, 7-24 (H)
11/5/2022 W, 24-3 (A)