NASHVILLE -- Jeff Brohm will likely add substantially to the trick play total of the 2018 season with some new gadgets made ready for the Music City Bowl.

Brohm, who is noted for his trickery as a play-caller, can utilize the 33-day window of time between the Bucket game and the postseason has given him time to break down film and think about the game plan.

"When you have this much time to prepare and think it over, you probably put more stuff in the game plan than you probably need to," Brohm said. "Without question, you got to have all the bullets ready to go."

Brohm was the coach at Big Ten Media Days back in August who set his program's over/under number on trick plays at 50. But by doing so, and on the heels of having several successful trick plays in 2017,, it allowed defenses on Purdue's schedule to assume gadget plays were eventually coming. Purdue fell well short of the 50 total.

Brohm acknowledged Thursday morning in the coaches' media conference that between himself and Auburn coach Gus Malzahn, the Music City Bowl has two play-callers with an extreme passion for the trick play.

"What happens when you face teams that know they're playing teams that could get creative in that way, they normally defend it pretty well," Brohm said. "We got to pick and choose where and when we want to do something but creating big plays is so important. A little trickery can go a long way."

Purdue and Auburn share at least one trick play in their playbooks as Purdue's fake kneel handoff at the end of the first half of the Foster Farms Bowl win last year is the same play Malzahn has used for years. Malzahn calls that play "Woody" and used it regularly throughout his time as a high school head coach in Arkansas and last used it in 2016 in a game at Texas A&M.

Purdue quarterbacks coach Brian Brohm says the Boilermakers play-call sheet is about as long for this bowl game than its ever been since Jeff Brohm took over the Purdue program.

"When we get there on game day we'll have more than enough bullets that we need," Brian Brohm said.

When asked Thursday about Purdue's public comments to "cut it loose" with its vast array of formations and "trickeration", Auburn defensive coordinator Kevin Steele said his staff has watched a lot of film.

"They've got everything in the kitchen sink so we may see it," Steele said about Purdue's offense.

Steele, who was the LSU defensive coordinator in 2015 when the Tigers defeated Brohm's Western Kentucky program 48-20, said the Auburn staff had studied every one of Brohm's bowl games and several WKU games from previous years.

"The guy we're going against tomorrow, he'll get you on the next play if you're cheating," Steele said about Brohm. "You can't throw a fastball on every pitch. You better have some knuckleballs and sliders in your arsenal too."

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