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The University of Chicago is the only full member to have permanently left the Big Ten Conference.{{efn|group=former|Lake Forest College attended the original 1895 meeting that led to the formation of the conference, but never participated in athletics or any other activities.}}

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As intercollegiate football rapidly increased during the 1890s, so did the ruthless nature of the game. Tempers flared, fights erupted, and injuries soared. Between 1880 and 1905, college football players suffered more than 325 deaths and 1,149 injuries.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} To deal with mounting criticism of the game, Purdue University president James Henry Smart{{cite web |title=Big Ten History |url=http://www.bigten.org/trads/big10-trads.html |work=Big Ten Conference |date=2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114224308/http://www.bigten.org/trads/big10-trads.html|url-status=dead |archive-date=November 14, 2013}} invited the presidents of the University of Chicago, University of Illinois, Lake Forest College, University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, and University of Wisconsin to a meeting in Chicago on January 11, 1895, to create policies aimed at regulating intercollegiate athletics. The eligibility of student-athletes was one of the main topics of discussion.{{cite web | title = Big Ten History | publisher = Big Ten Conference | url = http://bigten.cstv.com/trads/big10-trads.html | access-date = January 14, 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070113080920/http://bigten.cstv.com/trads/big10-trads.html | archive-date = January 13, 2007 | url-status=dead }} The Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives was founded at a second meeting on February 8, 1896.{{cite book|title=From The Inside: A Half Century of Michigan Athletics|first=Don|last=Canham|publisher=Olympia Sports Press|year=1996|isbn=0-9654263-0-0|page=[https://archive.org/details/frominside00donc/page/281 281]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/frominside00donc/page/281}} Lake Forest was not at the 1896 meeting and was replaced by the University of Michigan. At the time, the organization was more commonly known as the Western Conference, consisting of Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Chicago, Purdue, and Northwestern. These schools were the original seven members.

The conference is one of the nation's oldest, predating the founding of the NCAA by a decade and was one of the first collegiate conferences to sponsor men's basketball.

The first reference to the conference as the Big Nine was in 1899 after Iowa and Indiana had joined. Nebraska first petitioned to join the league in 1900 and again in 1911,{{cite web|author=STEVEN M. SIPPLE / Lincoln Journal Star |url=http://huskerextra.com/sports/football/article_5bc8f4f4-7fc1-5511-a7f8-cb76f02e65d6.html |title=Latest Husker News |publisher=HuskerExtra.com |access-date=November 7, 2012}} but was turned away both times.

In 1905, the conference was officially incorporated as the "Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives".

In April 1907, Michigan was voted out of the conference for refusing to adhere to league rules limiting football teams to no more than five games and players to three years of eligibility.{{cite news| url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1907/04/14/106748007.pdf | work=The New York Times | title=CONFERENCE OUSTS MICHIGAN; Severs Relations with University for Non-Observance of Rules | date=April 14, 1907}} Ohio State joined in 1912. The first known references to the conference as the Big Ten were in December 1916, when Michigan rejoined the conference after a nine-year absence.{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26053184/alumni_working_for_michigans_return/ |title=Alumni Working for Michigan's Return |newspaper=The Oregon Daily Journal |page=9 |date=December 11, 1916 |access-date=December 8, 2018 |via=newspapers.com}}{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26053211/live_tips_and_topics/ |title=Live Tips and Topics |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=7 |date=December 16, 1916 |access-date=December 8, 2018 |via=newspapers.com}}

The conference was again known as the Big Nine after the University of Chicago decided to de-emphasize varsity athletics just after World War II. In 1939 UChicago President Robert Maynard Hutchins made the decision to abolish the football program, based on his negative views of big-time college football's excesses and associated problems of the time.{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7Q8mAAAAIBAJ&dq=chicago%20big%20ten%20conference%20football&pg=3870%2C351905|title=Chicago gives up Football as major sport|date=December 22, 1939|publisher=Gettysburg Times|access-date=November 25, 2013}} Chicago withdrew from the conference in 1946 after struggling to obtain victories in many conference matchups. It was believed that one of several schools, notably Iowa State, Marquette, Michigan State, Nebraska, Notre Dame, and Pittsburgh would replace Chicago at the time.{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PwMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=2580,3858021&dq=chicago+big+ten+conference&hl=en|title=Chicago U. Withdraws From Big Ten|access-date=October 17, 2009}} On May 20, 1949, Michigan State ended the speculation by joining and the conference was again known as the Big Ten.{{clarification needed|reason=The table under Current Full Members says MSU joined in 1948. Is it 1948 or 1949? Could the former be the date of the decision and the latter the date of joining? |date=August 2023}} The Big Ten's membership would remain unchanged for the next 40 years. The conference's official name throughout this period remained the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives. It did not formally adopt the name Big Ten until 1987, when it was incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation.

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In 1990, the Big Ten universities voted to expand the conference to 11 teams and extended an invitation to Atlantic 10 Conference member and football independent Pennsylvania State University, which accepted it.{{cite web|url=http://bigten.cstv.com/sports/wchamp25/spec-rel/091106aaa.html|title=An Ingenious Inception: Penn State Joins the Big Ten Conference|access-date=February 9, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070328195006/http://bigten.cstv.com/sports/wchamp25/spec-rel/091106aaa.html|archive-date=March 28, 2007|url-status=dead}} When Penn State joined in 1990, it was decided the conference would continue to be called the Big Ten, but its logo was modified to reflect the change; the number 11 was disguised in the negative space of the traditionally blue "Big Ten" lettering.

Missouri showed interest in Big Ten membership after Penn State joined.{{cite news | title = Missouri Interested In Jumping To The Big Ten | url = http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NewsLibrary&p_multi=DSNB&d_place=DSNB&p_theme=newslibrary2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F3608419978C745&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM| access-date = June 14, 2010 | date=January 16, 1993}} Around 1993, the league explored adding Kansas, Missouri and Rutgers or other potential schools, to create a 14-team league with two football divisions.{{cite news | title = Kansas, Big 10 a good fit? | url = https://www.chicagotribune.com/1993/12/10/kansas-big-10-a-good-fit/ | access-date = November 10, 2009 | work=Chicago Tribune | first=Ed | last=Sherman | date=December 10, 1993}} These talks died when the Big Eight Conference merged with former Southwest Conference members to create the Big 12.

Following the addition of Penn State, efforts were made to encourage the University of Notre Dame, at that time the last remaining non-service academy independent, to join the league. In 1999, Notre Dame and the Big Ten entered into private negotiations concerning a possible membership that would include Notre Dame. Although Notre Dame's faculty senate endorsed the idea with a near-unanimous vote, the school's board of trustees decided against joining the conference.{{cite web| title=MDO – Irish say 'no thanks' to joining Big Ten – 02/08/1999 | website=mndaily.com | date=2007-12-20 | url=http://www.mndaily.com/daily/1999/02/08/sports/irish/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071220054555/http://www.mndaily.com/daily/1999/02/08/sports/irish/ | archive-date=2007-12-20 | url-status=dead | access-date=2019-02-02}} (In 1926, Notre Dame had briefly considered official entry into the Big Ten but chose to retain its independent status.{{cite news | title = Notre Dame shuns Big Ten, fears losing 'distinctiveness' | newspaper = National Catholic Reporter | date=February 19, 1999 | author=Pamela Schaeffer | url = http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1141/is_16_35/ai_80680415 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20050826112727/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1141/is_16_35/ai_80680415 | url-status=dead | archive-date = August 26, 2005 | access-date = January 14, 2007}}) Notre Dame subsequently joined the Atlantic Coast Conference in all sports except football (and hockey), in which Notre Dame maintains its independent status as long as it plays at least five games per season against ACC opponents. This was believed to be the major stumbling block to Notre Dame joining the Big Ten, as Notre Dame wanted to retain its independent home game broadcasting contract with NBC Sports, while the Big Ten insisted upon a full membership with no special exemptions.

{{Main|2010–2014 Big Ten Conference realignment}}

In December 2009, Big Ten Conference commissioner Jim Delany announced that the league was looking to expand in what would later be part of a nationwide trend as part of the 2010–2014 NCAA conference realignment.{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/college-football/columns/story?columnist=schlabach_mark&id=5268212 |title=Expansion 101: What's at stake? |first=Mark |last=Schlabach |author-link=Mark Schlabach |publisher=ESPN |date=June 9, 2010 |access-date=June 11, 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100612152453/http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/columns/story?columnist=schlabach_mark&id=5268212| archive-date= June 12, 2010 | url-status=live}} On June 11, 2010, the University of Nebraska applied for membership in the Big Ten and was unanimously approved as the conference's 12th school, which became effective July 1, 2011.{{cite web|url=http://www.bigten.org/genrel/061110aab.html|title=University of Nebraska Approved to Join Big Ten Conference by Council of Presidents/Chancellors|publisher=Big Ten Conference|date=June 11, 2010|access-date=June 11, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101222184204/http://www.bigten.org/genrel/061110aab.html|archive-date=December 22, 2010|url-status=dead}} The conference retained the name "Big Ten". This briefly led to the interesting and ironic result of the Big Ten consisting of twelve teams, and the Big 12 consisting of ten teams (with fellow former Big 12 member Colorado's move to the Pac-12 Conference). As part of the agreement to join the Big Ten, Nebraska would not receive a full share of the media revenue for the first six years of its membership, until fall 2017.{{cite web|url=https://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/2022/07/usc-ucla-will-receive-full-big-ten-revenue-share-before-rutgers-heres-why.html|title=USC, UCLA will receive full Big Ten revenue share before Rutgers: Here's why|date=July 28, 2022 }}

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On September 1, 2010, Delany revealed the conference's football divisional split, but noted that the division names would be announced later. Those division names, as well as the conference's new logo, were made public on December 13, 2010. For its new logo, the conference replaced the "hidden 11" logo with one that uses the "B1G" character combination in its branding. Delany did not comment on the logo that day, but it was immediately evident that the new logo would "allow fans to see 'BIG' and '10' in a single word."{{cite web|url=http://www.bigten.org/newlogo/|title=Big Ten Conference Reveals New Logo and Honors Football History with Division Names and Trophies|publisher=Big Ten Conference|access-date=April 2, 2014|quote="The new Big Ten logo was developed to symbolize the conference's future, as well as its rich heritage, strong tradition of competition, academic leadership, and passionate alumni," said Gericke. "Its contemporary collegiate lettering includes an embedded numeral "10" in the word "BIG", which allows fans to see "BIG" and "10" in a single word. Memorable and distinctive, the new logo evolved from the previous logo's use of negative space and is built on the conference's iconic name, without reference to the number of member institutions. The new logo also provides the flexibility of multiple versions which can be used horizontally, vertically and within new media."|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407070609/http://www.bigten.org/newlogo/|archive-date=April 7, 2014|url-status=dead}}

For the new football division names, the Big Ten was unable to use geographic names, because they had rejected a geographic arrangement. Delany announced that the new divisions would be known as the "Legends Division" and "Leaders Division". In the Legends division were Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska and Northwestern. The Leaders division was composed of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue and Wisconsin. Conference officials stated they had focused on creating competitive fairness rather than splitting by geographical location.{{cite web|title=Big Ten sets new divisions; splits up Illinois-NU|last=Ryan|first=Shannon|url=http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2010/09/big-ten-divisions-to-be-revealed-on-6-pm-tv-show.html|work=Chicago Tribune|date=September 1, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100904033515/http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2010/09/big-ten-divisions-to-be-revealed-on-6-pm-tv-show.html |archive-date=September 4, 2010 |access-date=December 6, 2014}} However, the new "Legends" and "Leaders" divisions were not met with enthusiasm. Some traditional rivals, including Ohio State and Michigan, were placed in separate divisions.{{cite news | url=https://www.espn.com/college-football/news/story?id=5930029 | title=Big Ten may rethink Legends, Leaders | work=ESPN.com | agency=Associated Press | date=December 17, 2010 | access-date=August 6, 2023}}

For the football season, each team played the others in its division, one "cross-over" rivalry game, and two rotating cross-divisional games. At the end of the regular season the two division winners met in a new Big Ten Football Championship Game.Garcia, Marlen (December 13, 2010). [http://content.usatoday.com/communities/campusrivalry/post/2010/12/big-ten-divisions-legends-leaders-new-logo/1 "Big Ten Unveils Logo, Names Football Divisions 'Legends' and 'Leaders'"], USA Today. Retrieved November 22, 2015. The Legends and Leaders divisional alignment was in effect for the 2011, 2012 and 2013 football seasons.

On November 19, 2012, the University of Maryland's Board of Regents voted to withdraw from the ACC and join the Big Ten as its 13th member effective on July 1, 2014.{{cite news|last=Prewitt|first=Alex|title=Maryland moving to Big Ten|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/terrapins-insider/wp/2012/11/19/maryland-approves-move-to-big-ten-reports-say/|access-date=November 19, 2012|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=November 19, 2012}} The Big Ten's Council of Presidents approved the move later that day.{{cite news|last1=Barker|first1=Jeff|last2=Korman|first2=Chris|title=Maryland's application for Big Ten admission approved|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/bal-maryland-to-seek-admission-into-big-ten-conference-1119,0,7212065.story|access-date=November 19, 2012|newspaper=The Baltimore Sun|date=November 19, 2012}} One day later, Rutgers University of the Big East also accepted an offer for membership from the Big Ten as its 14th member school.{{cite web|title=Rutgers University To Join The Big Ten Conference|url=http://www.bigten.org/genrel/112012aaf.html|access-date=November 20, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121127180040/http://www.bigten.org/genrel/112012aaf.html|archive-date=November 27, 2012|url-status=dead}} Like Nebraska, both schools would not receive full shares of the media revenue until six years after they joined. However, both schools took loans from the conference, thus pushing back the date they would receive full shares.

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On April 28, 2013, the Big Ten presidents and chancellors unanimously approved a football divisional realignment that went into effect when Maryland and Rutgers joined in 2014.{{cite news|url=https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/9220734 |title=Big Ten's divisional overhaul OK'd |first=Adam |last=Rittenberg |work=ESPN.com |date=April 28, 2013 |access-date=April 28, 2013}} Under the new plan, the Legends and Leaders divisions were replaced with geographic divisions. The West Division included Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Purdue and Wisconsin (of which all but Purdue are in the Central Time Zone), while the East Division included Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State and Rutgers (all of which are in the Eastern Time Zone). The final issue in determining the new divisions was which of the two Indiana schools would be sent to the West; Purdue was chosen because its West Lafayette campus is geographically west of Indiana's home city of Bloomington.{{cite news|url=https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/9191768 |title=Sources: Big Ten to realign divisions |first1=Brett |last1=McMurphy |first2=Adam |last2=Rittenberg |work=ESPN.com |date=April 19, 2013 |access-date=April 19, 2013}} The divisional alignment permanently protected the cross-divisional football rivalry Indiana–Purdue. As before, the two division winners played each other in the Big Ten Football Championship Game. The West and East divisional alignment was in effect for ten football seasons, from 2014 through 2023.

On June 3, 2013, the Big Ten announced the sponsorship of men's and women's lacrosse. For any conference to qualify for an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, at least six member schools must play the sport. In women's lacrosse, the addition of Maryland and Rutgers to the Big Ten brought the conference up to the requisite six participants, joining programs at Michigan, Northwestern, Ohio State and Penn State.{{cite web|title=Big Ten Announces Institution of Men's and Women's Lacrosse and Addition of Johns Hopkins as Men's Lacrosse Sport Affiliate Member|url=http://www.bigten.org/sports/m-lacros/spec-rel/060313aah.html|work=Big Ten Conference|access-date=June 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130710234815/http://www.bigten.org/sports/m-lacros/spec-rel/060313aah.html|archive-date=July 10, 2013|url-status=dead}} In men's lacrosse, Ohio State and Penn State were the only existing participants. Coincident with the addition of Maryland and Rutgers, Michigan agreed to upgrade its successful club team to varsity status, giving the Big Ten five sponsoring schools, one short of the minimum six for an automatic bid. Johns Hopkins University opted to join the conference as its first affiliate member beginning in 2014. Johns Hopkins had been independent in men's lacrosse for 130 years, claiming 44 national championships.{{cite web|title=Johns Hopkins men's lacrosse team to join Big Ten Conference|url=http://hub.jhu.edu/2013/06/03/johns-hopkins-lacrosse-big-ten|work=Hub |publisher=Johns Hopkins University |access-date=June 3, 2013|date=June 3, 2013}} As long-time independents joined conferences (for example, Syracuse joining the Atlantic Coast Conference), other schools competing as independents in some cases concluded that the inability to earn an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament was becoming a more serious competitive disadvantage in scheduling and recruiting.

On March 23, 2016, the Big Ten Conference and Notre Dame announced the Fighting Irish would become a men's ice hockey affiliate beginning with the 2017–18 season.{{cite news |url=http://www.bigten.org/sports/m-hockey/spec-rel/032316aaa.html |title=Big Ten Announces Addition of Notre Dame Men's Ice Hockey as Sport Affiliate Member Beginning with 2017–18 Season |date=March 23, 2016 |work=Big Ten Conference|access-date=June 12, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160528202809/http://www.bigten.org/sports/m-hockey/spec-rel/032316aaa.html |archive-date=May 28, 2016 |url-status=dead }} Notre Dame had been a member of Hockey East, and the move would save travel time and renew rivalries with former CCHA and WCHA members.

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In 2013, the conference moved its headquarters from its location in Park Ridge, Illinois to neighboring Rosemont. The office building is situated within Rosemont's Parkway Bank Park Entertainment District (then named MB Financial Park Entertainment District), alongside Interstate 294.{{cite web|url=http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20131013/news/710139913/ |title=Big Ten Conference moves into Rosemont headquarters |publisher=DailyHerald.com |date=October 13, 2013 |access-date=March 28, 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20120716/business/707169849/ |title=Big Ten relocating headquarters to Rosemont |publisher=DailyHerald.com |date=July 17, 2012 |access-date=March 28, 2014}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.ratioarchitects.com/assets/uploads/Big_Ten_Headquarters.pdf|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029185348/http://www.ratioarchitects.com/assets/uploads/Big_Ten_Headquarters.pdf|url-status=dead|title=Big Ten Headquarters|archivedate=October 29, 2013}}

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On June 30, 2022, UCLA and USC announced that they would be joining the Big Ten Conference effective August 2, 2024, enabling both schools to remain in the Pac-12 Conference for the duration of the Pac-12's existing media rights agreements.{{cite news |last1=Thamel |first1=Pete |last2=Dinich |first2=Heather |date=June 30, 2022 |title=USC, UCLA Moving from Pac-12 to Big Ten in 2024 |url=https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/34173688 |access-date=August 5, 2023 |work=ESPN |authorlink1=Pete Thamel}}{{cite news |first=Paul |last=Myerberg |date=June 30, 2022 |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/bigten/2022/06/30/ucla-usc-negotiations-join-big-ten-demolishing-pac-12/7779419001/ |title=Pac-12 Powerhouses UCLA, USC Joining Big Ten Conference in 2024 |work=USA Today |access-date=July 9, 2022}} Unlike the prior expansion with Nebraska, Rutgers, and Maryland, USC and UCLA would join with a full share of the media revenue from the start of their Big Ten tenure.

In August 2022, the conference reached new media rights deals with CBS, Fox, and NBC totaled at an estimated $7 billion.{{cite news |last=Rittenberg |first=Adam |date=August 18, 2022 |title=Big Ten completes 7-year, $7 billion media rights agreement with Fox, CBS, NBC |work=ESPN |url=https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/34417911 |access-date=August 23, 2022}}

On August 4, 2023, Oregon and Washington announced that they would join the Big Ten Conference alongside UCLA and USC.{{Cite web |last=Thamel |first=Pete |authorlink=Pete Thamel |date=2023-08-04 |title=Oregon, Washington officially leave Pac-12 for Big Ten |url=https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/38134021 |access-date=2023-08-04 |website=ESPN }} Unlike UCLA and USC, the two schools would receive a reduced media revenue share of $30 million each, with the share increasing by $1 million for each school each year, through the 2029–30 season. Rather than reducing the other conference members' revenue shares, Fox would contribute the necessary money.{{cite web|url=https://awfulannouncing.com/college-football/ohio-state-gene-smith-fox-oregon-washington-big-ten.html|title=Ohio State AD Gene Smith says Fox paid the tab to bring Oregon, Washington to Big Ten|date=August 10, 2023 }} The schools will receive a full share with the next media deal.{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/big-ten-adds-oregon-washington-newest-members-blow/story?id=102034722|title=Big Ten adds Oregon, Washington as newest members in blow to Pac-12|website=ABC News }}

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In June 2023 – after UCLA and USC were confirmed as incoming members but before Oregon and Washington were added – the conference announced that starting in 2024, the East and West divisions for football would be eliminated. Each team would play nine conference games and three non-conference games, as before. Within a four-year period, each team would play at least two games against every other team – one at home and one away. This plan called for 11 protected matchups to take place every year; these included Michigan–Ohio State and ten other regional rivalries. At the end of each season, the top two teams in the conference standings would oppose each other in the Big Ten Football Championship Game.{{cite web |first=Adam |last=Rittenberg |date=June 8, 2023 |url=https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/37820350 |title=Big Ten to Introduce 'Flex Protect Plus' Football Schedule Model in 2024 |work=ESPN |access-date=June 13, 2023}}

The addition of Oregon and Washington added one more protected matchup to this count, bringing the total to 12 protected matchups: Illinois–Northwestern, Illinois–Purdue, Indiana–Purdue, Iowa–Minnesota, Iowa–Nebraska, Iowa–Wisconsin, Maryland–Rutgers, Michigan–Michigan State, Michigan–Ohio State, Minnesota–Wisconsin, Oregon–Washington and UCLA–USC, leaving Penn State as the lone school with no protected matchups. The schedule was also updated so that teams will play every other conference opponent at least twice – once home and once away – and will play rotating opponents no more than three times in a five-year period.{{cite web|url=https://bigten.org/fb/article/blt39fc5a9dd81251cf/|title=Big Ten Conference Announces Future Football Schedule Formats for 2024–28|date=January 2024 }}

All current members of the Big Ten are doctorate-granting universities.

Former conference commissioner Jim Delany said in 2010 that membership in the Association of American Universities is "an important part of who we are."{{Cite web |date=2011-04-29 |title=Nebraska loses AAU status |url=https://www.espn.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/26078/nebraska-loses-aau-status |access-date=2023-09-07 |website=ESPN.com |language=en}} All current members of the Big Ten, other than the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, are members of the AAU. Nebraska was a member of the AAU when it was admitted to the Big Ten, but lost this status shortly afterwards.

The following table shows National University rank by U.S. News & World Report {{as of|2023|lc=yes}}.{{cite news |title=2023–2024 Best National University Rankings |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities }}

Also indicated is membership in the Association of American Universities.{{Cite web|url=https://www.aau.edu/sites/default/files/AAU-Files/Who-We-Are/AAU%20Member%20Universities%20listed%20by%20year_updated%202023.pdf|title=American Association of University Member List|date=November 20, 2024 }}

The office of the commissioner of athletics was created in 1922 "to study athletic problems of the various member universities and assist in enforcing the eligibility rules which govern Big Ten athletics."

All Big Ten members are members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance, formerly known as the Committee on Institutional Cooperation.{{cite web |url=http://www.cic.net/Home/Projects/SharedCourses.aspx |title=Sharing Access to Courses |publisher=Cic.net |access-date=November 7, 2012 |archive-date=April 29, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120429222156/http://www.cic.net/Home/Projects/SharedCourses.aspx |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.cic.net/Home/Projects/Library/ReciprocalBorrowing.aspx |title=Reciprocal Library Borrowing – Introduction |publisher=Cic.net |access-date=November 7, 2012 |archive-date=June 2, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120602044613/http://www.cic.net/Home/Projects/Library/ReciprocalBorrowing.aspx |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.cic.net/Home/Projects/PurchasingLicensing.aspx |title=Purchasing and Licensing |publisher=Cic.net |access-date=November 7, 2012 |archive-date=June 2, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120602044504/http://www.cic.net/Home/Projects/PurchasingLicensing.aspx |url-status=dead }} The University of Chicago, a former Big Ten Conference member, was a member of the CIC from 1958 to June 29, 2016.{{cite web|url=http://www.btaa.org/about/expansion/name-change-faq|title=Name Change – FAQ|publisher=Big Ten Academic Alliance|access-date=June 30, 2016}}{{cite web|url=https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2016/06/30/big-tens-academic-division-changes-name|title=Big Ten's Academic Division Changes Name |website=Inside Higher Ed |date=June 30, 2016 |access-date=June 30, 2016}}{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/college-football/news/story?id=6480763 |title=Jim Delany: Nebraska the Packers of Big Ten – ESPN |publisher=ESPN |date=May 5, 2011 |access-date=August 6, 2023}}{{cite web |url=http://www.huskers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=3943 |title=CoSIDA Academic All-Americans – Huskers.com – Nebraska Athletics Official Web Site |publisher=Huskers.com |date=June 21, 2012 |access-date=June 30, 2014 |archive-date=September 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924041824/http://www.huskers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=3943 |url-status=dead }}

Total revenue includes ticket sales, contributions and donations, rights and licensing, student fees, school funds and all other sources including TV income, camp income, concessions, and novelties.

Total expenses includes coach and staff salaries, scholarships, buildings and grounds, maintenance, utilities and rental fees, recruiting, team travel, equipment and uniforms, conference dues, and insurance.

The following table shows institutional reporting to the United States Department of Education as shown on the DOE Equity in Athletics website for the 2022–23 academic year.{{cite news |title=Equity in Athletics Data Analysis |work=U.S. Department of Education |url=https://ope.ed.gov/athletics/#/institution/search }}

The following table shows revenue specifically from NCAA / Conference Distributions, Media Rights, and Post-Season Football reported by the Knight Commission for the 2021–22 academic year.{{Cite web|url=https://knightnewhousedata.org/fbs/big-ten|title=Big Ten Conference | College Athletics Database|website=knightnewhousedata.org}}

Commissioner Jim Delany began to explore the formation of a Big Ten-specific channel in 2004 after a failed attempt to seek a significantly larger rights fee from ESPN to renew its existing agreements. This came to fruition in 2006, when the conference announced the formation of a dedicated cable network, Big Ten Network, in a 20-year partnership with Fox Sports, which would officially launch in 2007.{{Cite web|url=https://bigten.org/about/general/about-big-ten-conference/|title=Big Ten ||website=Big Ten Conference}} The network carries coverage of Big Ten athletics (including events not carried by the Big Ten's other media partners), studio shows, as well as other original programs and documentaries profiling the conference and its members.{{cite news |date=October 12, 2006 |title=Big Ten and Fox Announce Official Name and Unveil Logo for Big Ten Network |publisher=Big Ten Conference |url=http://www.bigten.org/genrel/101206aaa.html |url-status=dead |access-date=July 17, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170708221429/http://www.bigten.org/genrel/101206aaa.html |archive-date=July 8, 2017}} The impact of Big Ten Network influenced the conference's expansion in the 2010s, with some of its newer members being located in proximity to major media markets such as Baltimore and Washington, D.C. (Maryland), and the New York metropolitan area (Rutgers).{{Cite web |last=Koo |first=Ben |date=2022-08-30 |title=A look back at the Big Ten-ESPN meeting that changed sports media forever |url=https://awfulannouncing.com/ncaa/consider-them-rolled-jim-delany-espn-big-ten-network.html |access-date=2023-03-06 |website=Awful Announcing |language=en-US}}{{cite news |date=July 1, 2011 |title=ESPN's 'lowball' offer triggered Big Ten expansion |work=Chicago Tribune |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2011/07/01/espns-lowball-offer-triggered-big-ten-expansion/}}

Accompanying the new network announcement was a new ten-year media rights agreement beginning with the 2007–08 season and ending with the 2016–17 season that would split Big Ten coverage among the ESPN networks, CBS Sports, and Big Ten Network, thus ending Comcast Chicago's regional coverage of the conference.{{cite web|url=https://bigten.org/news/2006/6/21/The_Big_Ten_Conference_Announces_Media_Agreements_Increasing_National_Coverage_of_Big_Ten_Sports.aspx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231204021306/https://bigten.org/news/2006/6/21/The_Big_Ten_Conference_Announces_Media_Agreements_Increasing_National_Coverage_of_Big_Ten_Sports.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 4, 2023|title=The Big Ten Conference Announces Media Agreements Increasing National Coverage of Big Ten Sports|date=July 15, 2023 }}{{cite web|url=https://bigten.org/documents/2018/6/7/4168_genrel__tv-comparison-chart.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231204020820/https://bigten.org/documents/2018/6/7/4168_genrel__tv-comparison-chart.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 4, 2023|title=Television Programming Comparison}}

• ABC Sports:
• 17 football games per season
• ESPN/ESPN2:
• 24 football games per season
• 43 men's basketball games per season
• Rights to the first three rounds of the Big Ten men's basketball tournament, to be shared with Big Ten Network
• 5 women's basketball games per season
• ESPN Other (U,360):
• 13 men's basketball games per season
• CBS Sports:
• 15 men's basketball games per-season
• Rights to the semi-finals and championship game of the Big Ten men's basketball tournament
• 2 women's basketball games per-season
• Big Ten Network:
• 35 football games per season
• 105 men's basketball games per season
• Rights to the first three rounds of the Big Ten men's basketball tournament, to be shared with ESPN/ESPN2
• 55 women's basketball games per season
• Coverage of Olympic sports events

In 2010, the Big Ten announced the creation of the Big Ten Football Championship game starting with the 2011 season and signed a broadcast deal with Fox to broadcast the game from 2011 through 2016.{{cite web|url=https://bigten.org/news/2010/11/17/big_ten_announces_media_agreement_with_fox_sports_to_televise_2011_16_big_ten_football_championship_games.aspx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231204023636/https://bigten.org/news/2010/11/17/big_ten_announces_media_agreement_with_fox_sports_to_televise_2011_16_big_ten_football_championship_games.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 4, 2023|title=Big Ten Announces Media Agreement with FOX Sports to Televise 2011–16 Big Ten Football Championship Games|date=January 2024 }}

In 2016, the conference announced a new six-year media rights deal worth $2.64 billion with Fox Sports, CBS Sports, and ESPN to take effect with the start of the 2017–18 season and ending with the 2022–23 season. The size of the deal translated to a near tripling of the per-school media revenue share.{{cite web|url=https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Journal/Issues/2016/06/20/Media/ESPN-Big-Ten/|title=ESPN stays in the game|date=June 20, 2016}} {{subscription required}}

The new deal would see regular season Big Ten football games airing on Fox and Fox Sports 1 for the first time. As part of the deal, Fox would retain its coverage of the Big Ten Championship as well as obtain priority over ESPN when drafting regular season football games prior to each season. It would also put an end to ESPN's coverage of the Big Ten men's basketball tournament.

On August 18, 2022, the Big Ten announced that it had reached seven-year broadcast rights deals with Fox, CBS, and for the first time, NBC Sports, beginning in the 2023–24 academic year, ending an association between the conference and ESPN dating back to the 1980s. A major goal for the new contracts was to establish specific broadcast windows for Big Ten football games across its three partners, with Fox, CBS, and NBC primarily holding rights to Noon ET, 3:30 p.m. ET, and primetime games, respectively,{{Cite web |last=Rittenberg |first=Adam |date=2022-08-18 |title=Big Ten completes 7-year, $7 billion media rights agreement with Fox, CBS, NBC |url=https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/34417911 |access-date=2022-08-18 |website=ESPN.com |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Dodd |first=Dennis |date=2022-08-18 |title=Big Ten reaches seven-year media rights deal with CBS, Fox and NBC for football, basketball through 2029–30 |url=https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/big-ten-reaches-seven-year-media-rights-deal-with-cbs-fox-and-nbc-for-football-basketball-through-2029-30/ |access-date=2022-08-18 |website=CBS Sports |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Bucholtz |first=Andrew |date=2022-08-18 |title=Big Ten announces deals with Fox, CBS, NBC, including championship game splits |url=https://awfulannouncing.com/ncaa/big-ten-announces-deals-with-fox-cbs-nbc-through-2029-30.html |access-date=2022-08-18 |website=Awful Announcing |language=en-US}} and the three broadcasters alternating first pick of games.{{Cite web |title='The power of broadcast TV cannot be underestimated': Big Ten readies for new media deal with NBC, CBS, Fox |url=https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/2023/07/26/big-ten-football-readies-for-tv-deal-with-nbc-cbs-fox/70471706007/ |access-date=2023-07-27 |website=The Indianapolis Star |language=en-US}} The contracts were estimated to be worth at least $7 billion,{{Cite news |date=2022-08-18 |title=Big Ten lands multibillion-dollar TV deal, the richest in college sports |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/08/18/big-ten-tv-rights/ |access-date=2022-08-18 |newspaper=The Washington Post}} but also reportedly includes an "escalator clause" that will raise the value of the contracts if the Notre Dame Fighting Irish were to specifically join the Big Ten.{{Cite web |last=Ourand |first=John |date=2022-08-23 |title=New Big Ten TV deals up price if Notre Dame joins league |url=https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/en/Daily/Issues/2022/08/23/Media/Notre-Dame-Big-Ten-rights-deals |access-date=2022-08-24 |website=Sports Business Journal}}

• Fox Sports:
• 24 to 32 football games per season:
• Will primarily air in a Noon ET window (Big Noon Saturday), but with the option for games in other windows after the West Coast schools join in 2024.
• Rights to the Big Ten championship game in 2023, 2025, 2027, and 2029.
• At least 45 men's basketball games per-season on Fox and FS1.
• Selected women's basketball games and Olympic sport events.
• CBS Sports:
• 14 to 15 football games per season on CBS and Paramount+:
• Will primarily air in a 3:30 p.m. ET window beginning in 2024, once CBS's contract with the SEC expires (CBS will air seven games in other timeslots during the 2023 season).
• Includes one Friday afternoon game on Thanksgiving weekend.
• Rights to the Big Ten championship game in 2024 and 2028.
• Up to 15 men's basketball games per-season:
• Rights to the semi-finals and championship game of the Big Ten men's basketball tournament
• Rights to the championship game of the Big Ten women's basketball tournament
• NBC Sports:
• 14 to 16 football games per season on NBC and Peacock:
• Games will primarily air in a primetime window on NBC
• Eight games will stream exclusively on Peacock, including four intraconference games.
• Rights to the Big Ten championship game in 2026
• Up to 77 basketball games per-season on Peacock:
• Up to 47 men's basketball games, including 32 intraconference games.
• Up to 30 women's basketball games, including 20 intraconference games.
• Rights to the opening night doubleheaders of the men's and women's basketball tournaments.
• Up to 40 live Olympic sports events per-season on Peacock.
• Big Ten Network:
• Up to 50 football games per season
• At least 126 men's basketball games per season
• Second round and quarter-final games of the Big Ten men's basketball tournament
• At least 40 women's basketball games per season
• Coverage of the Big Ten women's basketball tournament (outside of the first round and championship game)
• Coverage of Olympic sports events

Following the deal's signing, it was later revealed that several schools had issues with playing football games at night in November, with some having formal clauses allowing them to veto games in that timeslot.{{Cite web |last=Axelrod |first=Ben |date=2024-11-22 |title=NBC frustrated with Big Ten deal, which it still hasn't officially signed |url=https://awfulannouncing.com/nbc/frustrated-big-ten-deal-still-hasnt-officially-signed.html |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=Awful Announcing |language=en-US}} The conference would also have to compensate Fox $40 million for the 2026 Big Ten championship game, as the conference did not actually have the right to offer the game to NBC. Instead, under the terms of the agreement regarding the operation of Big Ten Network, the channel officially owns the conference's media rights and then sublicenses them out to other channels, thus Fox has a stake in any content BTN sublicenses.{{cite web|url=https://awfulannouncing.com/college-football/kevin-warren-nbc-fox-big-ten-tv-deal.html |title=Analyzing ESPN's report on an unfinished Big Ten TV deal, Kevin Warren criticisms, and the conference having to 'pay back' Fox and NBC |date=May 22, 2023 |author-first1=Andrew|author-last1=Bucholtz}}{{Cite web |date=2023-05-21 |title=How an unfinished TV deal led to an unexpectedly hectic first month for the new Big Ten commissioner |url=https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/37693310/big-ten-new-commissioner-television-deal-coaches-uncertainty |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=ESPN.com |language=en}}

Starting 2024, NBC aired some of its Big Ten basketball games on its broadcast network, rather than Peacock.{{cite web |last=Berg |first=Aiden |date=October 9, 2024 |title=NBC, Peacock’s full Big Ten men’s basketball schedule released for 2024-25 season |url=https://www.nbcsports.com/college-basketball/news/nbc-peacocks-full-big-ten-mens-basketball-schedule-released-for-2024-25-season |website=NBC Sports}}

The Big Ten Conference sponsors championship competition in 14 men's and 14 women's NCAA sanctioned sports.[https://bigten.org/ BIG TEN CONFERENCE Official Athletic Site – Big Ten Conference] . Bigten.org. Retrieved on August 17, 2013.

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* Notre Dame joined the Big Ten in the 2017–18 school year as an affiliate member in men's ice hockey.{{cite press release |url=http://www.bigten.org/sports/m-hockey/spec-rel/032316aaa.html |title=Big Ten Announces Addition of Notre Dame Men's Ice Hockey as Sport Affiliate Member Beginning with 2017–18 Season |publisher=Big Ten Conference |date=March 23, 2016 |access-date=June 1, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160528202809/http://www.bigten.org/sports/m-hockey/spec-rel/032316aaa.html |archive-date=May 28, 2016 |url-status=dead }} It continues to field its other sports in the ACC except in football where it will continue to compete as an independent.

° Johns Hopkins joined the Big Ten in 2014 as an affiliate member in men's lacrosse, with women's lacrosse following in 2016. It continues to field its other sports in the NCAA Division III Centennial Conference.[http://www.bigten.org/sports/m-lacros/spec-rel/060313aah.html Big Ten Announces Institution of Men's and Women's Lacrosse and Addition of Johns Hopkins as Men's Lacrosse Sport Affiliate Member – BIG TEN CONFERENCE Official Athletic Site] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130710234815/http://www.bigten.org/sports/m-lacros/spec-rel/060313aah.html |date=July 10, 2013 }}. Bigten.org (June 3, 2013). Retrieved on 2013-08-17.

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The members of the Big Ten have longstanding rivalries with each other, especially on the football field. Each school, except Maryland and Rutgers, has at least one traveling trophy at stake. The following is a list of active rivalries in the Big Ten Conference with totals & records through the completion of the 2024 season.

Beginning in 2024, the conference will eliminate divisions but will protect certain matchups. The following are the conference's 12 protected matchups.{{Cite web |date=2023-11-20 |title=Big Ten Conference Announces Future Football Schedule Formats for 2024–28 |url=https://bigten.org/fb/article/blt39fc5a9dd81251cf/ |access-date=2023-11-20 |website=Big Ten Conference |language=en}}

• Illinois: Northwestern, Purdue
• Indiana: Purdue
• Iowa: Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin
• Maryland: Rutgers
• Michigan: Michigan State, Ohio State
• Michigan State: Michigan
• Minnesota: Iowa, Wisconsin
• Nebraska: Iowa
• Northwestern: Illinois
• Ohio State: Michigan
• Oregon: Washington
• Purdue: Illinois, Indiana
• Rutgers: Maryland
• UCLA: USC
• USC: UCLA
• Washington: Oregon
• Wisconsin: Minnesota, Iowa

From 1993 through 2010, the Big Ten football schedule was set up with each team having two permanent matches within the conference, with the other eight teams in the conference rotating out of the schedule in pairs for two-year stints. Permanent matches were as follows:{{Citation needed|date=February 2014}}

• Illinois: Indiana, Northwestern
• Indiana: Illinois, Purdue
• Iowa: Minnesota, Wisconsin
• Michigan: Michigan State, Ohio State
• Michigan State: Michigan, Penn State
• Minnesota: Iowa, Wisconsin
• Northwestern: Illinois, Purdue
• Ohio State: Michigan, Penn State
• Penn State: Michigan State, Ohio State
• Purdue: Indiana, Northwestern
• Wisconsin: Iowa, Minnesota

This system was discontinued after the 2010 season, as teams became grouped into two divisions, and would play all teams in their division once, with one protected cross-over game, and two games rotating against the other five opponents from the opposing division.

Most of the above permanent rivalries were maintained. By virtue of the new alignment, a handful of new permanent divisional opponents were created, as all pairs of teams within the same division would face off each season. Furthermore, three new permanent inter-divisional matches resulted from the realignment: Purdue–Iowa, Michigan State–Indiana, and Penn State–Nebraska. The following past permanent matches were maintained across divisions: Minnesota–Wisconsin, Michigan–Ohio State, and Illinois–Northwestern.

The new alignment, however, caused some of the above permanent rivalries to be discontinued. These were: Iowa–Wisconsin, Northwestern–Purdue, and Michigan State–Penn State. These matchups would continue to be played, but only twice every five years on average. More rivalries were disrupted, and some resumed on a yearly basis, when the league realigned into East and West Divisions for the 2014 season with the addition of Maryland and Rutgers. The two new schools were placed in the new East Division with Penn State, and the two Indiana schools were divided (Indiana to the East and Purdue to the West). With the move to a nine-game conference schedule in 2016, all cross-division games will be held at least once in a four-year cycle except for Indiana–Purdue, which is the only protected cross-division game. The conference later announced that once the new scheduling format takes effect in 2016, members will be prohibited from playing FCS teams, and required to play at least one non-conference game against a team in the Power Five conferences (ACC, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC; presumably, this would also allow for non-conference games against Big Ten opponents that are not on the conference schedule). Games against independents Notre Dame (an ACC member in non-football sports) also count toward the Power Five requirement, as did games against BYU before it joined the Big 12 in 2023.

• Illinois: Indiana, Iowa, Northwestern
• Indiana: Illinois, Purdue
• Iowa: Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin
• Maryland: Penn State
• Michigan: Michigan State, Ohio State
• Michigan State: Michigan, Ohio State, Wisconsin
• Minnesota: Iowa, Wisconsin
• Northwestern: Illinois
• Ohio State: Michigan, Penn State, Michigan State
• Oregon: Washington
• Penn State: Maryland, Ohio State
• Purdue: Indiana
• UCLA: USC
• USC: UCLA
• Washington: Oregon
• Wisconsin: Iowa, Michigan State, Minnesota

• Illinois: Missouri
• Indiana: Kentucky
• Iowa: Iowa State, Iowa Big Four
• Maryland: Duke, Georgetown, Virginia
• Michigan: Duke
• Michigan State: Duke, Oakland
• Nebraska: Creighton
• Penn State: Bucknell, Pittsburgh
• Oregon: Oregon State
• Rutgers: Princeton, Seton Hall
• UCLA: Arizona, Notre Dame
• Washington: Gonzaga, Washington State
• Wisconsin: Green Bay, Marquette, Milwaukee

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• Michigan-Michigan State
• Minnesota-Wisconsin
• Minnesota-North Dakota
• Minnesota-Minnesota Duluth
• Minnesota-St. Cloud State
• Michigan-Notre Dame

• Maryland-Johns Hopkins
• Penn State-Bucknell
• Rutgers-Princeton

• Michigan-Michigan State (Big Bear Trophy)

• Penn State–Lehigh
• Iowa-Penn State
• Iowa–Iowa State
• Iowa-Oklahoma State
• Rutgers-Princeton

Four Big Ten teams-Purdue, Northwestern, Michigan State and Michigan-had rivalries in football with Notre Dame. After the University of Southern California with 35 wins (including a vacated 2005 win), the Michigan State Spartans have the most wins against the Irish, with 28. The Purdue Boilermakers follow with 26, and Michigan ranks fourth all-time with 24. Northwestern and Notre Dame had a yearly contest, with the winner taking home a shillelagh, much like the winner of the USC–Notre Dame and Purdue–Notre Dame contests now receive. The Northwestern–Notre Dame shillelagh was largely forgotten by the early 1960s and is now solely an element of college football's storied past.{{cite web|url=http://hailtopurple.com/features/trophyhistory.html |title=History of NU's Rivalry Trophies |publisher=HailToPurple.com |access-date=November 7, 2012}}

Penn State has a longstanding rivalry with Pittsburgh of the ACC, but the two schools did not meet from 2000 until renewing the rivalry with an alternating home-and-home series from 2016 to 2019. Penn State also has long histories with independent Notre Dame; Temple of The American; Syracuse, and Boston College of the ACC; and West Virginia, of the Big 12 Conference. Additionally, Penn State maintains strong intrastate rivalries with Patriot League universities Bucknell in men's basketball and men's lacrosse, and Lehigh in wrestling. Most of these rivalries were cultivated while Penn State operated independent of conference affiliation; the constraints of playing a full conference schedule, especially in football, have reduced the number of meetings between Penn State and its non-Big Ten rivals.

Iowa has an in-state rivalry with Iowa State of the Big 12, with the winner getting the Cy-Hawk Trophy in football. Iowa and Iowa State also compete annually in the Cy-Hawk Series sponsored by Hy-Vee (as of 2011 this series is now sponsored by The Iowa Corngrowers Association), the competition includes all head-to-head regular season competitions in all sports. Iowa also holds rivalries in basketball with the state's other two Division I programs, Drake and Northern Iowa.

Indiana has an out-of-conference rivalry with Kentucky of the SEC (see Indiana–Kentucky rivalry). While the two schools played in football for many years, the rivalry was rooted in their decades of national success in men's basketball. The two no longer play one another in football, but their basketball rivalry continued until a dispute about game sites ended the series after 2011. In the last season of the rivalry (2011–12), the teams played twice. During the regular season, then-unranked Indiana defeated then-#1 ranked Kentucky 73–72 at Assembly Hall. The Wildcats avenged the loss in the NCAA tournament, defeating Indiana 102–90 in the South Regional final in Atlanta on their way to a national title. The teams next played in the 2016 NCAA tournament, with Indiana winning.

Illinois has a longstanding basketball rivalry with the SEC's Missouri Tigers, with the two men's teams squaring off annually in the "Braggin' Rights" game. It has been held in St. Louis since 1980, first at the St. Louis Arena and since 1994 at the Enterprise Center. This rivalry has been carried over into football as "The Arch Rivalry" with games played at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis in 2002 and 2003 and four games in 2007 through 2010.[https://web.archive.org/web/20070309010901/http://www.stlouissports.org/pressbox/releases/missouriillinois82505.php]

Wisconsin has a long-standing in-state basketball rivalry with Marquette. The series has intensified as of late with both teams having made the Final Four in recent years. The schools also played an annual football game before Marquette abandoned its football program in 1961. The school also has minor rivalries in basketball with the two other Division I members of the University of Wisconsin System, which include the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and University of Wisconsin–Green Bay.

Similarly, Nebraska has an in-state rivalry with another Big East school in Creighton, mostly in basketball and baseball.

Minnesota men's ice hockey has a prolific and fierce border rivalry with the University of North Dakota. The two teams played annually between 1948 and 2013 as members of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association prior to the inception of the Big Ten Conference. The rivalry resumed in 2016 in non-conference action.

Maryland has many rivalries outside of the conference, most notably Duke, Virginia, West Virginia, and Navy. Maryland left the Duke and Virginia rivalries behind in the ACC when it joined the Big Ten.

In the early days of the Big Ten, the Chicago–Michigan game was played on Thanksgiving, usually with conference championship implications. It was considered one of the first major rivalries of the conference.

Three Big Ten football stadiums seat over 100,000 spectators: Michigan Stadium (Michigan), Beaver Stadium (Penn State), and Ohio Stadium (Ohio State). Only five other college football stadiums have a capacity over 100,000 (as of the 2024 season, all in the Southeastern Conference (SEC)).{{Cite web|url=https://www.ncaa.com/news/football/article/2018-07-30/25-biggest-college-football-stadiums-country|title=The 25 biggest college football stadiums in the country {{!}} NCAA.com|website=ncaa.com|language=en|access-date=2019-10-17}} Michigan Stadium and Beaver Stadium, respectively, are the two largest American football stadiums by capacity in the United States,{{Cite web|url=https://www.dispatch.com/photogallery/OH/20190820/NEWS/820009997/PH/1|title=Photos: The 10 biggest college football stadiums in the nation|website=The Columbus Dispatch|language=en|access-date=2019-10-17}} and all three of the Big Ten's largest venues rank among the ten largest sports stadiums in the world. UCLA plays in the Rose Bowl as its home stadium, which is the location of the Rose Bowl Game for the Big Ten champion. USC plays in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, a publicly owned stadium that is managed and operated by the university, which has hosted two summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984, and will again in 2028.

Big Ten schools also play in two of the 10 largest on-campus basketball arenas in the country: Ohio State's Value City Arena and Maryland's Xfinity Center. Additionally, arenas at Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, and Penn State rank among the 20 largest on-campus basketball facilities in the United States. As of the upcoming 2024–25 season, the Big Ten Conference has the most on-campus basketball arenas with seating capacities of 15,000 or more of any NCAA conference, with seven. (Of the other conferences considered "power conferences" in men's basketball, the ACC has two such arenas, the Big East none, the Big 12 four, and the SEC five. Outside of these conferences, the Mountain West Conference has four such arenas.)

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{{See also|List of Big Ten Conference football standings (1959–present)|2024 Big Ten Conference football season}}

When Maryland and Rutgers joined the Big Ten in 2014, the division names were changed to "East" and "West", with Purdue and the six schools in the Central Time Zone in the West and Indiana joining the remaining six Eastern Time Zone schools in the East. The only protected cross-division game is Indiana–Purdue. Beginning in 2016, the Big Ten adopted a nine-game conference schedule.{{cite press release |url=http://www.bigten.org/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/042813aaa.html |title=Big Ten Announces Football Division Alignments and Move to Nine-Game Conference Schedules |publisher=Big Ten Conference |date=April 28, 2013 |access-date=August 17, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130804022458/http://www.bigten.org/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/042813aaa.html |archive-date=August 4, 2013 |url-status=dead }} All teams have one cross-division opponent they play annually that changes every six years except for Indiana and Purdue, whose crossover is permanent. The other six opponents are played every three years during that cycle. For 2016–2021, the pairings are Maryland–Minnesota, Michigan-Wisconsin, Michigan State–Northwestern, Ohio State-Nebraska, Penn State–Iowa, and Rutgers–Illinois, and for 2022–2023 the pairings are Maryland–Northwestern, Michigan–Nebraska, Michigan State–Minnesota, Ohio State–Wisconsin, Penn State–Illinois, and Rutgers–Iowa.{{Cite news|url=https://www.maizenbrew.com/2018/8/29/17797392/big-ten-football-future-conference-schedules-michigan-wolverines-michigan-state-ohio-state-nebraska|title=Michigan will continue road/road, home/home games against OSU, MSU after Big Ten announces conference football schedules through 2025|work=Maize n Brew|access-date=August 29, 2018}} In 2016, the Big Ten no longer allowed its members to play Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) teams and also requires at least one non-conference game against a school in the Power Five conferences (ACC, Big 12, Pac-12, SEC). Contracts for future games already scheduled against FCS teams would be honored. However, in 2017, the Big Ten started to allow teams to schedule an FCS opponent during years in which they only have four conference home games (odd-numbered years for East division teams, even-numbered years for West division teams).{{Cite web|url=https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2017/7/24/16020112/big-ten-fcs-opponents-football-scheduling|title=Big Ten teams are allowed to schedule FCS opponents again. Should they?|first=Alex|last=Kirshner|date=July 24, 2017|website=SBNation.com}} At the time this policy was first announced, games against FBS independents Notre Dame and BYU would count toward the Power Five requirement.{{cite web |url=http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/07/31/new-big-ten-scheduling-mandates-power-5-opponents-no-fcs-foes/related/ |title=New Big Ten scheduling mandates Power 5 opponents, no FCS foes |first=Kevin |last=McGuire |series=College Football Talk |work=NBCSports.com |date=July 31, 2015 |access-date=July 31, 2015 |archive-date=August 3, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150803023312/http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/07/31/new-big-ten-scheduling-mandates-power-5-opponents-no-fcs-foes/related/ |url-status=dead }} ESPN, citing a Big Ten executive, reported in 2015 that the Big Ten would allow exceptions to the Power Five rule on a case-by-case basis, and also that the other FBS independent at that time, Army, had been added to the list of non-Power Five schools that would be counted as Power Five opponents.{{cite news|url=https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/13716412 |title=Independents BYU, Army, Notre Dame can fulfill Power 5 quota for Big Ten |first=Brett |last=McMurphy |work=ESPN.com |date=September 22, 2015 |access-date=August 6, 2023}}

In 2024, the addition of Oregon, UCLA, USC, and Washington expanded the Big Ten to 18 teams, resulting in the elimination of football divisions. A schedule consisting of nine conference games and three non-conference games was maintained. At the end of the season, the top two teams in the conference standings will play each other in the Big Ten Football Championship Game. For at least 2024 and 2025, the conference was to adopt what it called the "Flex Protect Plus" model, which called for each conference member to play all the others at home and away at least once during a four-year cycle. Initially, the 11 "protected" matchups were to be played each season. The announcement was made before Oregon and Washington were announced as incoming members.{{cite press release|url=https://bigten.org/fb/article/blt39fc5a9dd81251cf/ |title=Big Ten Conference Announces Exciting Future Football Schedule Formats for 2024 and 2025 |publisher=Big Ten Conference |date=June 8, 2023 |access-date=June 9, 2023}}{{cite web | url=https://www.clickondetroit.com/sports/2023/06/08/here-are-the-protected-rivals-for-every-big-ten-football-team-under-new-schedule-format/#:~:text=Here%20are%20the%20official%20protected%20rivals%20for%20every,Minnesota%3A%20Wisconsin%2C%20Iowa%208%20Nebraska%3A%20Iowa%20More%20items | title=Here are the protected rivals for every Big Ten football team under new schedule format | date=June 8, 2023 }} After the expansion to 18 teams was announced, the scheduling model was tweaked into the "Flex Protect XVIII" model, which will maintain the original 11 protected rivalries while adding Oregon–Washington. This model is planned to operate from 2024 to 2028.{{cite press release |url=https://bigten.org/fb/article/blt39fc5a9dd81251cf/ |title=Big Ten Conference Announces Future Football Schedule Formats for 2024–28 |publisher=Big Ten Conference |date=October 4, 2023 |access-date=October 30, 2023}}

• Illinois–Northwestern
• Illinois–Purdue
• Indiana–Purdue
• Iowa–Minnesota
• Iowa–Nebraska
• Iowa–Wisconsin
• Maryland–Rutgers
• Michigan–Michigan State
• Michigan–Ohio State
• Minnesota–Wisconsin
• Oregon–Washington
• UCLA–USC

This list goes through January 20, 2025.

† Ohio State vacated 12 wins and its Big Ten title in 2010 due to NCAA sanctions.

†† Numbers of division and conference championships shown reflect Big Ten history only and do not include division and conference championships in former conferences. Washington, Oregon, USC and UCLA join the Big Ten in 2024, Maryland and Rutgers joined in 2014, and Nebraska joined in 2011.

Number of Claimed National Championships, as well as win–loss–tie records, include all seasons played, regardless of conference membership.

† Does not include record prior to joining the conference in 2024.

{{Main|List of Big Ten Conference football champions|Big Ten Football Championship Game}}

Since 1946, the Big Ten champion has had a tie-in with the Rose Bowl game. Michigan appeared in the first bowl game, the 1902 Rose Bowl. After that, the Big Ten only allowed one other team to participate in the Rose Bowl (the 1920 Ohio State Buckeyes football team), until the agreement struck with the Pacific Coast Conference for the 1947 Rose Bowl. The spread of civilian air travel plus the fact that the US military had publicly encouraged college football during World War II were primary causes of the Big Ten finally allowing the Rose Bowl.{{cite journal |last1=Madsen |first1=Rob |date=Spring 2023 |title=The Cost of Conservatism: The University of Minnesota's Lofted Ideals and Fallen Football Teams |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/918698 |journal=Journal of Sport History |volume=50 |issue=1 |pages=85–100 |doi= 10.5406/21558450.50.1.06|access-date=}} From 1946 through 1971, the Big Ten did not allow the same team to represent the conference in consecutive years in the Rose Bowl with an exception made after the 1961 season in which Minnesota played in the 1962 Rose Bowl after playing in the 1961 Rose Bowl due to Ohio State declining the bid because of Ohio State faculty concerns about academics.

It was not until the 1975 season that the Big Ten allowed teams to play in bowl games other than the Rose Bowl. Michigan, which had been shut out of the postseason the previous three years, was the first beneficiary of the new rule when it played in the Orange Bowl vs. Oklahoma. Due to the pre-1975 rules, Big Ten teams such as Michigan and Ohio State have lower numbers of all-time bowl appearances than powerhouse teams from the Big 12 Conference (previously Big Eight and Southwest Conferences) and Southeastern Conference, which always placed multiple teams in bowl games every year.

Although the pick order usually corresponds to the conference standings, the bowls are not required to make their choices strictly according to the win–loss records; many factors influence bowl selections, especially the likely turnout of the team's fans. Picks are made after CFP selections; the bowl with the #2 pick will have the first pick of the remaining teams in the conference.

For all non-College Football Playoff partners, the bowl partner will request a Big Ten team. The Big Ten will approve or assign another team based on internal selection parameters.

When not hosting a semifinal, the Orange Bowl will select the highest-ranked team from the Big Ten, SEC or Notre Dame to face an ACC opponent. (However, in an 8-game cycle [12 years due to not counting when the Orange Bowl is a semifinal], the Big Ten must be selected at least three times and no more than four times; the SEC similarly will be selected between three and four times while Notre Dame may be selected up to two times.){{cite web |url=https://www.dailypress.com/sports/columns/david-teel/dp-teel-time-acc-orange-sec-notre-dame-story.html |title=Teel Time: ACC, Orange Bowl announce ties with SEC, Big Ten, Notre Dame, ESPN |work=Daily Press |last=Teel |first=David |date=November 15, 2012 |access-date=September 15, 2021 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118180119/https://www.dailypress.com/sports/columns/david-teel/dp-teel-time-acc-orange-sec-notre-dame-story.html |archive-date=January 18, 2021 }} The Big Ten Champion cannot play in the Orange Bowl. If a Big Ten team is not selected by the Orange Bowl, the Citrus Bowl will submit a request for a Big Ten team.

Guaranteed compensation is due to the coaches regardless of performance. Though most of the pay is directed from the university, some also comes in the form of guaranteed endorsements and other income streams. Most coaches also have performance-based bonuses that can significantly raise their salaries.{{Cite web|last=Andrews|first=Kyle|date=November 23, 2021|title=Where does Penn State football coach James Franklin's salary rank in the Big Ten and nationally?|url=https://www.centredaily.com/sports/college/penn-state-university/psu-football/article256041347.html|access-date=November 24, 2021|website=Centre Daily Times}}

In 2024, three Big Ten member schools—Northwestern and USC, private institutions, and Penn State, exempt from most open records laws due to its status as what Pennsylvania calls a "state-related" institution—are not obligated to provide salary information for their head coaches. Both Penn State and Northwestern typically choose to provide this information, although Northwestern has not announced the salary of its current coach.

All Big Ten member schools have marching bands which perform regularly during the football season. Eleven of the member schools have won the Sudler Trophy,{{cite web|year=2011|title=Sudler Trophy|url=http://www.sousafoundation.net/allProjects/trophy.htm|publisher=John Philip Sousa Foundation|access-date=January 27, 2011}} generally considered the most prestigious honor a collegiate marching band can receive.{{cite web|author=Iati, Marisa |date=January 20, 2011 |title=Marching band wins prestigious award |url=http://www.ndsmcobserver.com/news/marching-band-wins-prestigious-award-1.1903801 |work=The Observer |access-date=January 27, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110122082545/http://www.ndsmcobserver.com/news/marching-band-wins-prestigious-award-1.1903801 |archive-date=January 22, 2011 }}

• {{cite web|date=January 2, 2011|title=Cullowhee's WCU band struts stuff in Rose Parade|url=http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20110102/NEWS/301020062/1007/COLUMNISTS|work=Asheville Citizen-Times|access-date=January 27, 2011|quote=... followed its 2009 win of the Sudler Trophy, the highest award for a university marching band.}} The first three Sudler trophies were awarded to Big Ten marching bands—Michigan (1982), Illinois (1983) and Ohio State (1984). The Big Ten has more Sudler Trophy recipients than any other collegiate athletic conference.

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Coaches and media of the Big Ten Conference award individual honors at the end of each football season.

{{See also|2024–25 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season|Big Ten Conference men's basketball tournament}}

The Big Ten has participated in basketball since 1904, and has led the nation in attendance every season since 1978.{{cite book|title=Official 2007 NCAA Men's Basketball Records Book|publisher=NCAA|year=2006|location=Indianapolis|page=241|url=https://www.ncaa.org/library/records/basketball/m_basketball_records_book/2007/2007_m_basketball_records.pdf|access-date=February 3, 2007|isbn=978-1-57243-909-2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070308141801/http://www.ncaa.org/library/records/basketball/m_basketball_records_book/2007/2007_m_basketball_records.pdf|archive-date=March 8, 2007|url-status=dead}} Although, they have slightly higher average capacity basketball venues, the attendance edge is largely because Big Ten Conference fans fill a higher percentage of seats than other conferences.{{cite web|url=https://athleticdirectoru.com/articles/influencing-factors-mbb-attendance/|title=Influencing Factors In College Basketball Attendance|accessdate=April 28, 2024|publisher=Athletic Director U|author=Boettger, Eli|date=March 14, 2018 }} It has been a national powerhouse in men's basketball, having multiple championship winners and often sending four or more teams to the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Previous NCAA champions include Indiana with five titles, Michigan State with two, and Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ohio State with one each. Maryland, which joined the Big Ten in 2014, won one NCAA championship as a member of the ACC.{{cite web|title=Big Ten Men's Basketball History|publisher=Big Ten Conference|year=2004|url=http://bigten.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/big10-hoops-history.html|access-date=February 3, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070310180545/http://bigten.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/big10-hoops-history.html|archive-date=March 10, 2007|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=Maryland Men's Basketball NCAA Tournament History|publisher=UMTerps.com|year=2012|url=http://www.umterps.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=716397&SPID=120728&DB_OEM_ID=29700&ATCLID=208121516|access-date=September 28, 2013|archive-date=October 2, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002034047/http://www.umterps.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=716397&SPID=120728&DB_OEM_ID=29700&ATCLID=208121516|url-status=dead}} Ohio State played in the first NCAA tournament national championship game in 1939, losing to Oregon. Despite this, Jimmy Hull of Ohio State was the first NCAA tournament MVP. The first three tournament MVPs came from the Big Ten (Marv Huffman of Indiana in 1940 and John Katz of Wisconsin in 1941).

Big Ten teams have also experienced success in the postseason National Invitation Tournament (NIT). Since 1974, 13 Big Ten teams have played in the championship game, winning nine championships. Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, and Minnesota have won two NIT championships, while Indiana and Purdue have won one each. Two other members, Maryland and Nebraska, won NIT titles before they joined the Big Ten. In addition, in 1943 the defunct Helms Athletic Foundation retrospectively awarded national titles to Northwestern for 1931 and Purdue for 1932; then in 1957, it selected Illinois for 1915, Minnesota for 1902 and 1919, and Wisconsin for 1912, 1914 and 1916.{{cite web|first=Jon|last=Scott|date=Nov 9, 2010|title=The truth behind the Helms Committee|url=http://www.bigbluehistory.net/bb/helms.html|access-date=14 December 2015}} Former member Chicago won a post-season national championship series in 1908.

From 1999 to 2022, the Big Ten took part in the ACC–Big Ten Challenge with the Atlantic Coast Conference. The ACC held a 13–8–3 record against the Big Ten; Minnesota, Nebraska, Penn State, Purdue, and Wisconsin are the only Big Ten schools without losing records in the challenge.

From 2015 to 2023, the Big Ten took part in the Gavitt Tipoff Games with the Big East Conference. The Big Ten did well in the challenge, holding a 3–1–4 record against the Big East, only losing the challenge in 2021.

This list is updated through March 1, 2022 and is listed by win percentage in NCAA Division I men's college basketball.

† Minnesota vacated its 1997 Big Ten Conference regular season title, Michigan vacated its 1998 Big Ten tournament title, and Ohio State vacated its 2002 Big Ten tournament, as well as 2000 and 2002 regular season titles, due to NCAA sanctions. Minnesota was the champion for both the Premo-Porretta Power Poll and the Helms Athletic Foundation in 1902, but was only the Premo-Porretta champion in 1903 and only the Helms champion in 1919.

Big Ten Conference basketball programs have combined to win 10 NCAA men's basketball championships as Big Ten members, with another current member having won a national championship before joining the conference. UCLA has won eleven, Indiana has won five, Michigan State has won two, while Michigan, Ohio State and Wisconsin have won one national championship each as Big Ten members. Maryland won one national championship while a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference, and Oregon won the first NCAA tournament in 1939. Fifteen teams have advanced to the Final Four at least once in their history. Ten Big Ten schools (Indiana, Michigan State, Illinois, Purdue, Ohio State, Maryland, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin, and UCLA) are among the national top 50 in all-time NCAA tournament appearances.

Seasons are listed by the calendar years in which they ended. Italics indicate honors earned before the school competed in the Big Ten.

† denotes overtime games. Multiple †'s indicate more than one overtime.

Teams in bold represented the Big Ten at the time of their appearance. Those in bold italics made appearances before joining the conference.

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{{See also|List of Big Ten Conference men's basketball regular season champions|Big Ten Conference men's basketball tournament}}

Guaranteed compensation is due to the coaches regardless of performance. Though most of the pay is directed from the university, some also comes in the form of guaranteed endorsements and other income streams. Most coaches also have performance-based bonuses that can significantly raise their salaries.

In 2024, three Big Ten member schools—Northwestern and USC, private institutions, and Penn State, exempt from most open records laws due to its status as what Pennsylvania calls a "state-related" institution—are not obligated to provide salary information for their head coaches. Despite this, both Penn State and Northwestern typically choose to provide this information.

Big Ten women's basketball teams have played a total of 17 championship games of the three most prominent national postseason tournaments—six in the NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament (since 1982), one in the Women's Basketball Invitation Tournament (since 2024), and 10 in the Women's National Invitation Tournament (since 1998). Three other championship game appearances (two in the NCAA, one in the WNIT) were made by current Big Ten members before they joined the conference, and the 2024 arrivals have combined for five championship game appearances (three in the NCAA and two in the WNIT). Purdue is the only Big Ten member to have won the NCAA women's basketball national title while a member of the conference. Both schools that joined in 2014, Maryland and Rutgers, won national titles before joining the Big Ten—Rutgers won the final AIAW championship in 1982, when it was a member of the Eastern 8, and Maryland won the NCAA title in 2006 as a member of the ACC. Big Ten women's basketball led conference attendance from 1993 to 1999.{{cite journal |title=Official 2007 NCAA Women's Basketball Records Book |journal=NCAA Basketball. The Official ... Women's Basketball Records Book |publisher=NCAA |year=2006 |location=Indianapolis |page=199 |url=https://www.ncaa.org/library/records/basketball/w_basketball_records_book/2007/2007_w_basketball_records.pdf |access-date=February 3, 2007 |issn=1089-5299 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070125004820/http://www.ncaa.org/library/records/basketball/w_basketball_records_book/2007/2007_w_basketball_records.pdf |archive-date=January 25, 2007 |url-status=dead }}

Like the men's teams, the women's basketball teams in the Big Ten participated in the Big Ten–ACC Women's Challenge, which was founded in 2007 and ended in 2022. The Big Ten's record in the challenge was 1–11–3, with Indiana, Maryland, and Michigan being the only Big Ten teams without a losing record in the challenge.

Seasons are listed by the calendar years in which they ended. Italics indicate seasons before the school competed in the Big Ten.

Bold type indicates teams that competed as Big Ten members. Bold italics indicates teams that later became Big Ten members.

Bold type indicates teams that competed as Big Ten members. Bold italics indicates teams that later became Big Ten members.