Penn State kicks off its 2022 college football season with a tricky road trip to Purdue. It will be the third year in a row that Penn State opens the season on the road in a Big Ten conference matchup, but history is on Penn State’s side when it comes to head-to-head meetings with the Boilermakers.
The 2022 meeting will be the 20th all-time game between Penn State and Purdue, with a vast majority of those games coming in Big Ten competition. Penn State leads the all-time series against Purdue with a 15-3-1 all-time record dating back to the first meeting in 1951. After back-to-back meetings in the early 1950s, the two programs did not face each other again until Penn State’s second season in the Big Ten, in 1995.
Penn State comes into the 2022 meeting with a nine-game winning streak against Purdue with the most recent victory coming in 2019. Penn State is 7-2 all-time in games played at Purdue. The last loss in Ross-Ade Stadium came in 2003 with No. 18 Purdue pulling away for a victory against Michael Robinson, Tony Hunt, and Robbie Gould, and the rest of the Nittany Lions.
Here is a look back at the series history between Penn State and Purdue, with another chapter set to be written in the 2022 season opener on Thursday, September 1.