List of Big Ten Conference football champions
Championships by team
Italics indicate a school no longer competing in the Big Ten. Bold indicates an outright conference championship.

List of Big Ten Conference football champions

Section Title: Championships by team
Table Section Text: Italics indicate a school no longer competing in the Big Ten. Bold indicates an outright conference championship.

Team	Big Ten Championships	Outright Big Ten Championships	Years

Michigan	42	16	1898, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1906, 1918, 1922, 1923, 1925, 1926, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1943, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1964, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2004

Ohio State	37^	22	1916, 1917, 1920, 1935, 1939, 1942, 1944, 1949, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1961, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1984, 1986, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2014, 2017, 2018

Minnesota	18	7	1900, 1903, 1904, 1906, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1915, 1927, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1960, 1967

Illinois	15	8	1910, 1914, 1915, 1918, 1919, 1923, 1927, 1928, 1946, 1951, 1953, 1963, 1983, 1990, 2001

Wisconsin	14	8	1896, 1897, 1901, 1906, 1912, 1952, 1959, 1962, 1993, 1998, 1999, 2010, 2011, 2012

Iowa	11	4	1900, 1921, 1922, 1956, 1958, 1960, 1981, 1985, 1990, 2002, 2004

Michigan State	9	5	1953, 1965, 1966, 1978, 1987, 1990, 2010, 2013, 2015

Northwestern	8	2	1903, 1926, 1930, 1931, 1936, 1995, 1996, 2000

Purdue	8	1	1918, 1929, 1931, 1932, 1943, 1952, 1967, 2000

Chicago	7	6	1899, 1905, 1907, 1908, 1913, 1922, 1924

Penn State	4	2	1994, 2005, 2008, 2016

Indiana	2	1	1945, 1967

Nebraska	0	0

Maryland	0	0

Rutgers	0	0

Sentence(s)

Penn State won its first Big Ten championship in 1994, they won two more in 2005 and 2008, and they won a fourth in 2016.

final_sentence: Penn State won its first Big Ten championship in 1994, they won two more in 2005 and 2008, and they won a fourth in 2016.