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PRESENTS FOOTBALL: NEWS AND NOTES Boilers Going Bowling Thanks to a three-game win- BY GOLD AND BLACK STAFF the Boilermakers will be bowling for the second straight season. It's Purdue's first back-to-back ning streak to end the season, whom, the Boilermakers play re- mains to be seen. At the latest, the announcement will come Sunday, following conference champion- ship games and the announce- ment of the BCS bowl games, al- though it could be sooner. The Boilers can be fairly sure bowl appearances — the Boil- ermakers won the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl over Western Michigan last season — since 2006 and '07. But where, and against ton's Reliant Sta- dium and last year drew 62,000 fans, in large part be- cause Texas A&M was the Big 12 representative. Still, Houston said that in the two years of the Big Ten tie-in, the fan following from the northern schools (Northwestern and Illinois) has been "great. " Christmas night arrival is likely. The game is slated for a 9 p.m. ET kickoff on Dec. 28, a Friday. If Purdue doesn't get selected for Houston, then it will fall to the said that teams typically stay four nights when they come to Houston, meaning that a Houst on to which state they're headed. Simply put, it is 99 percent cer- tain that they'll go to Texas for the holidays, either Houston for the Meineke Car Care Bowl or Dallas for the Heart of Dallas Bowl. "We are looking at Purdue and Minnesota as our choice," Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas Crosby Wright and the rest of the seniors are ready to play in a bowl, whether it is in Houston or Dallas. They are eager to take the field again. executive director Heather Hous- ton said Tuesday. "We have a board meeting on Thursday and it is possible we will be able to make a Big Ten selection before every- thing is finalized on Sunday. "The good thing is we are Tom Campbell pleased to have two good choices from the Big Ten. It looks like we will be picking from TCU, Baylor, Texas Tech, Iowa State and West Virginia as an opponent, so it should be a real competitive game. The bowl is played in Hous- " Rachel Davis—Kalamazoo, Mich. Rachel is one of six volleyball players to earn academic All-Big Ten honors in the Spring 2011 semester. In all, 59 Boilermaker fall athletes earned this honor. GOLDANDBLACK EXPRESS • VOLUME 23, EXPRESS 13 • 23 LINK TO PURDUE'S 2012 SEASON STATS