OU wouldn't have won the 2000 national title without Bob Stoops and Josh Heupel. But the foundation was laid when this group of Sooners decided to stay.

To those who lived it and produced it, an unforgettable season in Purdue football history traces back to the end of one of Joe Tiller's 6 a.m. spring practices. Players had to finish practice with a ...

The Boilermakers played in the Rose Bowl a quarter century ago. Barry Odom wants to get Purdue football back there one day.

Win and into the Rose Bowl for the Boilermakers against archrival Purdue during the 2000 season, and they did so emphatically ...

Twenty-five years ago, Purdue football entered the 2000 season with a Heisman candidate quarterback, perhaps the nation's best offensive line and coupled it with a young, hungry defense loaded with ...

Editor’s note: Throughout the offseason, The Athletic is celebrating the 150th anniversary of college football, one decade at a time. For more on the 2000s, read Michael Weinreb on the Age of Ideas ...

The month of October was an emotional roller coaster for the Boilermakers during their 2000 Rose Bowl season, highlighted by profound memories of victories and a letdown.

College sports, football especially, will always be over-shadowed by pro-league football. It's too bad, college games can be just as, if not more exciting, than an NFL game, and NCAA Football 2000 is ...

It is a good thing NBC doesn’t run college football. If it did, the network that brought us the tape-delayed Olympics just might be getting around to airing the Kickoff Classic. And it might hold the ...

Editor’s note: This is the third in an occasional series examining the people, events and impacts of Oklahoma’s 2000 national championship season 20 years later. The first and second stories can be ...

Already 3-2 during the 2000 season, Purdue football trailed Michigan by 18 points at halftime. Over the next two quarters, everything changed.