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 season Michigan 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
1922	Chicago, 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 joined
2015	Michigan State
2016	Penn State
2017	Ohio State
2018	Ohio State	Made Ohio State back to back Big Ten Conference Champions.
2019	Ohio State	Makes Ohio State the back to back to back Big Ten Conference Champions.
2020	Ohio State	Makes Ohio State the back to back to back Big Ten Conference Champions.
2021	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 Archived 2008-03-25 at the Wayback Machine 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
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.