Big Ten Conference football champions

## Yearly Big Ten Conference football champions

|Year|Champions|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- |
|Wisconsin|Chicago, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Northwestern, Purdue and Wisconsin begin conference play||
|Wisconsin|||
|Michigan|||
|Chicago|Indiana and Iowa join conference||
|Iowa and Minnesota|Indiana and Iowa begin conference play||
|Michigan* and Wisconsin|||
|Michigan*|||
|Michigan, Minnesota and Northwestern|||
|Michigan and Minnesota|||
|Chicago*|||
|Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin|Northwestern does not play football during this season Michigan leaves the conference after this season||
|Chicago|Northwestern does not play football during this season||
|Chicago|||
|Minnesota|||
|Illinois and Minnesota|||
|Minnesota|||
|Wisconsin|Ohio State begins conference play||
|Chicago|||
|Illinois|||
|Illinois and Minnesota|||
|Ohio State|||
|Ohio State|Michigan rejoins conference play||
|Illinois, Michigan and Purdue|||
|Illinois|||
|Ohio State|||
|Iowa|||
|Chicago, Iowa and Michigan|||
|Illinois* and Michigan|||
|Chicago|||
|Michigan|||
|Michigan and Northwestern|||
|Illinois* and Minnesota|||
|Illinois|||
|Purdue|||
|Michigan and Northwestern|||
|Michigan, Northwestern and Purdue|||
|Michigan* and Purdue|||
|Michigan* and Minnesota|||
|Minnesota*|||
|Minnesota* and Ohio State|||
|Northwestern|Minnesota*||
|Minnesota|||
|Minnesota|||
|Ohio State|Chicago's last football season||
|Minnesota*|||
|Minnesota*|||
|Ohio State*|Co-National Champions with Wisconsin||
|Michigan and Purdue|||
|Ohio State*|||
|Indiana|||
|Illinois|Chicago leaves the conference, Ties games count as half wins in standings, Big Ten agrees with the Pacific Coast Conference to have champions meet in the Rose Bowl Game||
|Michigan*|||
|Michigan*|||
|Michigan and Ohio State|||
|Michigan|Michigan State joins||
|Illinois|Michigan State*||
|Purdue and Wisconsin|Michigan State*||
|Illinois and Michigan State|Michigan State begins conference play||
|Ohio State*|||
|Ohio State|||
|Iowa|||
|Ohio State*|||
|Iowa*|||
|Wisconsin|||
|Iowa and Minnesota*|||
|Ohio State*|||
|Wisconsin|||
|Illinois|||
|Michigan|||
|Michigan State*|||
|Michigan State|||
|Indiana, Minnesota and Purdue|||
|Ohio State*|||
|Michigan and Ohio State|||
|Ohio State|||
|Michigan|||
|Michigan and Ohio State|||
|Michigan and Ohio State|||
|Michigan and Ohio State|||
|Ohio State|||
|Michigan and Ohio State|||
|Michigan and Ohio State|||
|Michigan and Michigan State|||
|Ohio State|||
|Michigan|||
|Iowa and Ohio State|||
|Michigan|Penn State*||
|Illinois|||
|Ohio State|||
|Iowa|||
|Michigan and Ohio State|Penn State*||
|Michigan State|||
|Michigan|||
|Michigan|||
|Illinois, Iowa, Michigan and Michigan State|Penn State joins||
|Michigan|||
|Michigan|||
|Ohio State and Wisconsin|Penn State begins conference play||
|Penn State|||
|Northwestern|||
|Northwestern and Ohio State|||
|Michigan*|||
|Michigan, Ohio State and Wisconsin|||
|Wisconsin|||
|Michigan, Northwestern and Purdue|||
|Illinois|||
|Iowa and Ohio State*|||
|Michigan|||
|Iowa and Michigan|||
|Ohio State and Penn State|||
|Ohio State|||
|Ohio State|||
|Ohio State and Penn State|||
|Ohio State|||
|Ohio State, Michigan State, and Wisconsin|Nebraska joins and begins conference play||
|Michigan State|Michigan State** (Rose Bowl vs. Stanford)||
|Ohio State*|Rutgers University and Maryland will/have joined||
|Michigan State|||
|Penn State|||
|Ohio State|||
|Ohio State|Made Ohio State back to back Big Ten Conference Champions.￼||
|Ohio State|Makes Ohio State the back to back to back Big Ten Conference Champions.￼||
|Ohio State|Makes Ohio State the back to back to back Big Ten Conference Champions.￼||
|Michigan|||

- A school name with an asterisk (*) after it means they won a major national championship for that season.  National Championships are from the NCAA Division I-A national football championship page. Like that page writes, the posted information is under much debate. See here  for what minor polls selected as national champions in past years.
- A school name with two asterisks (**) after means they clinched a BCS Bowl game berth.

## Championships by school

|School|Big Ten Championships !! Last Big Ten Championship|
| --- | --- |
|7|1924|
|15|2001|
|2|1967|
|11|2004|
|43|2021|
|7|2015|
|18|1967|
|8|2000|
|39|2020|
|4|2016|
|8|2000|
|11|1999|

_*_ Chicago stopped its football program in 1939 and withdrew from the conference in 1946.