After going decades without playing anyone in the SEC Purdue is on a run of opponents from that conference. For decades Purdue only had a handful of games against SEC opponents, all in bowl games such as the 1979 Bluebonnet Bowl and a pair of bowl games against Georgia. Now we’re playing the SEC all the time, it seems. We just finished a fun home and home with Missouri and the Music City Bowl against Auburn was, technically, a football game.
Now we get Vanderbilt, our gold and black brethren in the SEC. They are part of our non-conference scheduling of gold and black teams that has already had Missouri and has Wake Forest coming up in a few seasons.