2008 Purdue Boilermakers football team
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| Northern Colorado |
0 |
0 |
0 |
10 |
10 |
| • Purdue
|
7 |
7 |
7 |
21 |
42 |
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
OT |
2OT |
Total |
| • Oregon
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3 |
3 |
14 |
3 |
3 |
6 |
32 |
| Purdue |
13 |
7 |
0 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
26 |
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| Central Michigan |
7 |
3 |
0 |
15 |
25 |
| • Purdue
|
3 |
7 |
7 |
15 |
32 |
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| Purdue |
7 |
7 |
7 |
0 |
21 |
| • Notre Dame
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0 |
14 |
21 |
3 |
38 |
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| • Penn State
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0 |
10 |
7 |
3 |
20 |
| Purdue |
0 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
6 |
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|
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| Purdue |
0 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
3 |
| • Ohio State
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10 |
3 |
0 |
3 |
16 |
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| Purdue |
6 |
6 |
0 |
14 |
26 |
| • Northwestern
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0 |
24 |
10 |
14 |
48 |
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|
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| • Minnesota
|
7 |
3 |
0 |
7 |
17 |
| Purdue |
6 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
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The 2008 Purdue Boilermakers football team represented Purdue University in the Big Ten Conference during the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Joe Tiller, in his 12th and final season at Purdue, was the team's head coach. The Boilermakers' home games were played at Ross–Ade Stadium in West Lafayette, Indiana. They posted a 4–8 record, finishing in a ninth place tie in the Big Ten.
Kory Sheets rushed for an 80-yard touchdown for the Boilermakers and Matt Evensen kicked a 23-yard field goal for the Ducks. Chris Summers then kicked a 29-yard and a 38-yard field goals in the first quarter. Kory Sheets rush for 2 yards for a touchdown in the second quarter.
In the third quarter, Summers' punt was returned by Jairus Byrd for an 87-yard touchdown. Then LeGarrette Blount rushed for 5 yards for a touchdown to tie the score. Summers kicked a 27-yard field goal in the fourth quarter, but missed a field goal try to tie the game in regulation.
Both teams kicked a field goal in overtime, but the Boilermakers failed to score in the second overtime period. The Ducks scored a touchdown to win the game.
Irish quarterback Jimmy Clausen threw for a career-high 275 yards and three touchdowns and Notre Dame running backs ran for 201 yards in the 38–21 defeat over the Boilermakers. Purdue took a 7–0 lead on a Kory Sheets run, but Notre Dame countered with a 47-yard interception return for a touchdown by cornerback Robert J. Blanton. Purdue answered back when Aaron Valentin scored on a 3-yard pass from Curtis Painter to make the score 14–7. Clausen threw a touchdown pass to Golden Tate to tie it 14–14 heading into half-time.
The Irish scored on their first two possessions of the second half to open a 28–14 lead. The Boilermakers cut the lead to 28–21 four plays later when Painter threw a pass that Desmond Tardy caught at the Notre Dame 30 and raced up the left sideline for a touchdown. The Irish answered immediately, however, when Clausen threw a 30-yard TD pass to David Grimes on a fourth-and-7. The Boilermakers fell to 1–15 at Notre Dame Stadium since 1976. The loss also left Joe Tiller with a 5–7 record against the Irish. (Purdue had lost 11 straight to Notre Dame before Tiller arrived.)
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