2000 Purdue Boilermakers football team

The 2000 Purdue Boilermakers football team represented Purdue University during the 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season. Purdue finished as tri-champions of the Big Ten Conference and earned a berth in the Rose Bowl, the Boilermakers' first appearance in Pasadena since 1967.

Season
The season was Drew Brees's final year with the Boilermakers. He left Purdue with Big Ten Conference records in passing yards (11,792), touchdown passes (90), total offensive yards (12,693), completions (1,026), and attempts (1,678). Brees won the Maxwell Award as the nation's outstanding player of 2000 and won the NCAA's Today's Top VIII Award as a member of the Class of 2001. Brees was third in balloting for the Heisman Trophy in 2000. The Boilermakers won all 8 of their games when they scored 30 points or more in 2000.

Michigan

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Rivalries

 * In the battle for the Old Oaken Bucket, Purdue beat Indiana.
 * In the battle for the Shillelagh Trophy, Notre Dame beat Purdue.

Awards and honors

 * Drew Brees, Maxwell Award
 * Drew Brees, Chicago Tribune Silver Football
 * Tim Stratton, John Mackey Award