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The Big Ten eliminated divisions for the 2024 season and featured the two teams with the best overall conference record for the first time, those being Oregon and Penn State. [2] This was the first Big Ten title game appearance for Oregon in its first season in the Big Ten, while it was Penn State's second.
The 2011 Big Ten Football Championship Game was a college football game. It was played on December 3, 2011, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana, to determine the 2011 champion of the Big Ten Conference. The Wisconsin Badgers of the Leaders Division beat the Michigan State Spartans of the Legends Division by a score of 42–39.
Prior to the 2011 college football season, the Big Ten Conference determined its conference representative through regular season play, and, as there were only 11 member schools, there was no possibility for a conference championship game because, at the time, the NCAA required that a conference have 12 teams with two divisions in order to hold a conference championship game.
Here are results from the 12 all-time Big Ten championship games, all of which have been played at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis: 2011 : Wisconsin 42, Michigan State 39 2012 : Wisconsin 70 ...
Oregon won the Big Ten Championship Game in their first season in the league, defeating Penn State 45–37 in the first season of a division-less format. Four Big Ten teams earned spots in the 2024–25 College Football Playoff. Oregon earned the No. 1 seed in the newly expanded 12-team playoff.
Here are all the possible Big Ten football championship game scenarios following Ohio State's loss to Michigan. ... Washington — is undefeated and Penn State beats IU on the conference opponents ...
The conference earned two BCS bowl invitations and compiled a 4–6 overall record in 2011–12 NCAA football bowl games. The Conference had six 2011 College Football All-America Team consensus selections: Montee Ball, Kevin Zeitler, David Molk, Whitney Mercilus (unanimous), Devon Still, and Jerel Worthy, with the Rimington Trophy going to Molk ...
Each of the Big Ten’s additions going back to Penn State in 1990 set some kind of geographic precedent for the league, either expanding the conference ever so slightly to the east or west.