Fun Facts: Purdue-Iowa, Premier League edition featuring AC/DC

Fun Facts about Saturday’s Iowa football game against Purdue.

1. This is Iowa’s 1,300th football game.

2. The underdog has won the last three games in this series.

3. Iowa is 7-11-1 when it hosted Purdue for a homecoming game.

4. Purdue is 2-3 in its last five bowls, but was outscored by an average of 28.6 points per game (264-121).

5. With his 53-yarder last week, Iowa kicker Drew Stevens improved to 3-of-3 for his career in field goal tries of 50-plus yards.

6. According to SportSource Analytics, Purdue has the fourth-highest rate of missed tackles among Power 5 programs (17.3 percent), while Iowa has the sixth-lowest at 10.2 percent.

7. The Boilermakers have had someone with at least 100 receiving yards in each of their last seven games against Iowa.

8. Iowa has held its last 19 opponents under 400 yards, the longest active streak in the FBS.

9. Purdue didn’t play Michigan or Ohio State in the regular season last year and won the Big Ten West. Iowa doesn’t play Michigan or Ohio State this year.

10. Purdue running back Tyrone Tracy has 13 career touchdowns, seven with Iowa and six this season with the Boilermakers.

11. The Boilermakers run the Air Raid offense, but 12 of their 17 offensive touchdowns have come on the ground. The Boilermakers have rushed for over 189 yards in two straight Big Ten games for the first time since 2017.

12. Iowa has lost seven of its last 10 October games.

13. This is Iowa’s last game against Purdue until 2026, and the Boilermakers’ last game at Iowa until 2028.

14. Iowa and Oklahoma are the only teams in the nation that haven’t allowed a rushing touchdown.

15. Purdue offensive coordinator Graham Harrell is fourth on the NCAA’s list of all-time passing yards with 15,793.

16. Iowa Coach Kirk Ferentz is 31 years older than Purdue Coach Ryan Walters. Walters has the lowest buyout among Big Ten coaches for getting fired without cause, at $12.63 million. Ferentz is fifth-highest at $37 million.

17. The Boilermakers have been in the Associated Press Top 25 for just one week since the start of the 2008 season.

18. This game is streaming exclusively on Peacock. That streaming service also carries English Premier League matches. Chelsea, Manchester, Brighton and Sheffield are cities in Iowa that have namesakes in the EPL.

19. The Peacocks of Upper Iowa play the Missouri S&T Miners Saturday.

20. After AC/DC’s “Back in Black” blares at Kinnick Stadium Saturday, afternoon, that band will be performing that night at the Power Trip Festival in Indio, Calif.