Big Ten Conference football champions

Yearly Big Ten Conference football champions 

 Year  Champions  Notes 1896 Wisconsin  Chicago, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Northwestern, Purdue and Wisconsin begin conference play 1897 Wisconsin   1898 Michigan 1899 Chicago  Indiana and Iowa join conference 1900 Iowa and Minnesota  Indiana and Iowa begin conference play 1901 Michigan* and Wisconsin  1902 Michigan*  1903 Michigan, Minnesota and Northwestern  1904 Michigan and Minnesota  1905 Chicago*   1906 Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin Northwestern does not play football during this seasonMichigan leaves the conference after this season 1907 Chicago Northwestern does not play football during this season 1908 Chicago    1909 Minnesota   1910 Illinois and Minnesota   1911 Minnesota   1912 Wisconsin  Ohio State begins conference play 1913 Chicago  1914 Illinois   1915 Illinois and Minnesota   1916 Ohio State     1917 Ohio State  Michigan rejoins conference play 1918 Illinois, Michigan and Purdue  1919 Illinois  1920 Ohio State  1921 Iowa  1922Chicago, Iowa and Michigan 1923 Illinois* and Michigan    1924 Chicago  1925 Michigan   1926 Michigan and Northwestern   1927 Illinois* and Minnesota    1928 Illinois  1929 Purdue   1930 Michigan and Northwestern  1931 Michigan, Northwestern and Purdue  1932 Michigan* and Purdue  1933 Michigan* and Minnesota   1934 Minnesota*   1935 Minnesota* and Ohio State    1936 Northwestern  Minnesota* 1937 Minnesota  1938 Minnesota  1939 Ohio State Chicago's last football season   1940 Minnesota*    1941 Minnesota*  1942 Ohio State* Co-National Champions with Wisconsin 1943 Michigan and Purdue  1944 Ohio State*   1945  Indiana  1946 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 1947 Michigan*    1948 Michigan*  1949 Michigan and Ohio State   1950 Michigan  Michigan State joins 1951 Illinois  Michigan State* 1952 Purdue and Wisconsin  Michigan State* 1953 Illinois and Michigan State  Michigan State begins conference play 1954 Ohio State*   1955 Ohio State  1956 Iowa  1957 Ohio State*    1958 Iowa*   1959 Wisconsin  1960 Iowa and Minnesota*   1961 Ohio State*   1962 Wisconsin  1963 Illinois   1964 Michigan  1965 Michigan State*   1966 Michigan State  1967 Indiana, Minnesota and Purdue  1968 Ohio State*   1969 Michigan and Ohio State   1970 Ohio State  1971 Michigan  1972 Michigan and Ohio State  1973 Michigan and Ohio State  1974 Michigan and Ohio State  1975 Ohio State  1976 Michigan and Ohio State   1977 Michigan and Ohio State  1978 Michigan and Michigan State   1979 Ohio State  1980 Michigan  1981 Iowa and Ohio State  1982 Michigan  Penn State* 1983 Illinois  1984 Ohio State   1985 Iowa   1986 Michigan and Ohio State  Penn State* 1987 Michigan State  1988 Michigan  1989 Michigan  1990 Illinois, Iowa, Michigan and Michigan State  Penn State joins 1991 Michigan  1992 Michigan  1993 Ohio State and Wisconsin  Penn State begins conference play 1994 Penn State   1995 Northwestern  1996 Northwestern and Ohio State   1997 Michigan*   1998 Michigan, Ohio State and Wisconsin  1999 Wisconsin   2000 Michigan, Northwestern and Purdue   2001 Illinois  2002 Iowa and Ohio State*    2003 Michigan  2004 Iowa and Michigan  2005 Ohio State and Penn State 2006 Ohio State 2007 Ohio State 2008 Ohio State and Penn State  2009 Ohio State 2010 Ohio State, Michigan State, and Wisconsin  Nebraska joins and begins conference play 2013 Michigan State  Michigan State** (Rose Bowl vs. Stanford) 2014 Ohio State*  Rutgers University and Maryland will/have joined2015Michigan State2016Penn State2017Ohio State2018Ohio StateMade Ohio State back to back Big Ten Conference Champions.￼2019Ohio StateMakes Ohio State the back to back to back Big Ten Conference Champions.￼2020Ohio StateMakes Ohio State the back to back to back Big Ten Conference Champions.￼2021Michigan

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 TenChampionships  LastBig TenChampionship Chicago* 7  1924 Illinois 15  2001 Indiana 2  1967 Iowa 11  2004 Michigan 43  2021 Michigan State 7  2015 Minnesota 18  1967 Northwestern 8  2000 Ohio State 39  2020 PennState 4 2016 Purdue 8  2000 Wisconsin 11  1999

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



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