Purdue (1-1) had tied the game at 17-17 when Caleb TerBush threw a 15-yard TD pass to Antavian Edison with 2:12 left, the score set up by Josh Johnson's recovery of a Golson fumble. Tommy Rees is a good player, heck of a quarterback, too." I thought it was a good coaching decision. I thought that may have given us an opportunity to get after him some and get ourselves in position to win. "I was kind of excited about the idea of maybe having a rookie quarterback in there on the last drive. "That was a pressure situation and certainly would have been a tough assignment for a rookie quarterback," Purdue coach Danny Hope said. Rees connected on key third down passes of 10 yards to John Goodman and 21 yards to Robby Toma to set up the winning kick and now Notre Dame is 2-0 for the first time since 2008. With first-year starter Everett Golson a bit shaken up and having trouble gripping the ball, Rees came in and moved the Irish into position for Kyle Brindza's 27-yard field goal with seven seconds to go.
"I was just thinking we've got to win this game," he said to an NBC interviewer on the field. A starter for 12 games in 2011, he didn't have time to ponder what his performance might mean for the future. Rees wasn't thinking so much about his big opportunity after he'd sat out last week as punishment for his arrest in a skirmish with police following a party last May. Returning from a one-game suspension as a second stringer, the former starting quarterback got one chance and produced a last-minute drive that led to a 20-17 victory over the Boilermakers. Tommy Rees spent most of Saturday watching Notre Dame struggle with Purdue.
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