In 2016 Purdue will play a Mountain West Conference opponent for the first time ever. Usually if Purdue is playing a west coast team it comes against someone from the Pac-12, but when the Nevada Wolfpack comes to Ross-Ade Stadium on September 24th it will mark the first time Purdue has played a member of that conference while they are a member. Purdue has played Hawaii once, but they were in the WAC when that game occurred in 2006.
That makes for some uncharted territory here. Northwestern recently announced that they are paying Nevada $1.