In Phil Steele’s college football 2025 preview magazine, he ranks Notre Dame as the No. 2 team in the country as the season is almost here.

Since 2007, they have only squared off nine times and Notre Dame is 9-0 in those contests with their largest margin of victory in the series coming this past season when they traveled to West Lafayette and won in a 66-7 blowout that was over by halftime. Freeman has only coached against Purdue once and is 1-0 against the instate rival.