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Drew Brees Returns to Purdue as the Feature Attraction of the School’s 25-Year Rose Bowl Reunion
Drew Brees and 64 teammates reunited to honor the 2000 Purdue Rose Bowl season, celebrated for overcoming low expectations in the Big Ten conference.
- On September 13, 2025, Drew Brees visited Purdue University in West Lafayette to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the 2000 Rose Bowl team.
- The reunion followed the trajectory of Brees' recruiting class, which arrived in 1997 as an underestimated group dubbed the 'runts' of the Big Ten who completed a surprising Rose Bowl run.
- Sixty-Four of Brees’s former teammates joined him for the reunion, entering the field via the Tiller Tunnel after a tribute honoring the late coach Joe Tiller, who passed away in 2017, with his widow Arnette present at the event.
- Brees, Purdue’s all-time leader in attempts , completions , passing yards , and touchdown passes , remarked that the challenge made their achievement well-earned and expressed how satisfying it was to see their efforts pay off.
- The event celebrated Brees' enduring impact as an inductee of the professional football hall, a Super Bowl winner and MVP, whose accomplishments in college continue to motivate Purdue's football program.
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Drew Brees returns to Purdue as the featured attraction of the school’s 25-year Rose Bowl reunion
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Drew Brees returned to Purdue’s campus Saturday to celebrate his greatest college feat and, as with the team he led 25 years ago, he had plenty of friends giving an assist. Sixty-four of his teammates returned for the 2000 Rose Bowl reunion, some of whom were part of Brees’ recruiting class that was considered the worst in the Big Ten when it arrived in 1997. Four years later, Brees and that same underestimated core comple…
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Drew Brees returns to Purdue as the feature attraction of the school's 25-year Rose Bowl reunion
Drew Brees returned to Purdue’s campus to celebrate his greatest college feat. Sixty-four of Brees' teammates returned for Saturday's 2000 Rose Bowl reunion.
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