In an interesting bit of uniform trivia, the Boilermakers will wear "throwback" uniforms in honor of the 2001 Rose Bowl team (2000 season) on October 16, Homecoming, against Minnesota.

I actually liked these unis a lot, even though I remember some of the players not liking them at the time. I still have my Standeford #82 black one.

As you may have heard us lament numerous times, one of the unfortunate parts of this uniform (aside from the clumsy "AT&T Rose Bowl" patch and "Purdue Rose 2001" patch pictured here) was the fact that Purdue elected to wear a helmet with a rose threaded through the "P" on the helmet.

When Boilerdowd saw these helmets during warm-ups, he claims to have known we were cooked. (Tim and I didn't have high-roller seats and thus were too far from the action to see this detail live.)

I'm glad they'll be wearing the unis but I do hope they leave the rose off the helmet.