1986 All-Big Ten Conference football team
The 1986 All-Big Ten Conference football team consists of American football players chosen as All-Big Ten Conference players for the 1986 NCAA Division I-A football season. Three players were unanimously chosen as first-team players by the Associated Press media panel: quarterback Jim Harbaugh, receiver Cris Carter, and linebacker Chris Spielman. Conference co-champions Michigan and Ohio State led the conference with seven first-team players each. Michigan's first-team selections included Harbaugh, Jumbo Elliott, Mark Messner and Andy Moeller. Ohio State's first-team selections included unanimous choices  Carter and Spielman. Iowa followed with four first-team honorees, including running back Rick Bayless. Key. AP = Associated Press, selected by a panel of 17 sports writers and broadcasters covering the Big Ten UPI = United Press International, selected by the conference coaches Bold = Consensus first-team selection of both the AP and UPI