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Gold and Black Radio: Purdue-Ball State pregame show

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The GoldandBlack.com staff and host Derek Schultz dissect Purdue’s 2025 season opener: analysis, opponent, historical view, and roundtable all in a 65-minute pregame show.

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Purdue-Ball State notes

NOTES (excerpt from Tom Dienhart’s post)

• Ryan Browne played one season at four different high schools: Brother Rice (Mich.), Sarasota (Fla.) Riverview, Venice (Fla.), Milford Prep (N.Y.). He has a knack to get people to play hard for him, going 32-2 as a prep. 

• Forty-six of Purdue’s 54 transfers arrived after spring football. Three of those players are expected to start on offense (WRs Michael Jackson and Nitro Tuggle along with Browne) and three are expected to start on defense (DBs An’Darius Coffey and Myles Slusher along with LB Charles Correa). Projected No. 1 punter Jack McCallister also got here after spring ball.

• Five players on Purdue’s 2024 roster are on the Ball State roster: RB Elijah Jackson; OL Aaron Roberts; WR Trey Firestone; WR Donovan Hamilton; DT Reese Hill.

Former Purdue Ops man Pete Roley is Ball State’s Chief of Staff, while ex-student Grant Timms is a GA for Roley.

• Purdue has players from 27 states, along with two Canadians.

• Purdue opens with three homes games. The last time it did that was 2018, when it began with four home games. Purdue lost its first three games that year to Northwestern, Eastern Michigan and Missouri before beating Boston College.

• This is the second season in a row Purdue will play three in-state foes: Ball State, Notre Dame, Indiana. Last year, Purdue played Indiana State, Notre Dame and Indiana.

• Purdue is riding a school-record 11-game losing streak after opening with a 49-0 win vs. FCS Indiana State in 2024. Its last win vs. a FBS foe was Nov. 25, 2023, a 35-31 win vs. Indiana in West Lafayette.

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