Big Ten Conference

Big Ten Conference

Status
Active
Years Active
1896-present
Prior Name(s)/Conference(s)
Big Nine Conference (1899-1917, 1946-49) Western Conference (1896-99) Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives (officially, 1896–1987)
Successor Conference(s)
n/a

The Big Ten Conference (stylized B1G, formerly the Western Conference and the Big Nine Conference) is the oldest Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States. It is based in Rosemont, Illinois. For over eight decades this conference consisted of ten universities, and presently has 14 member and two affiliate institutions. They compete in the NCAA Division I; its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), formerly known as Division I-A, the highest level of NCAA competition in that sport. The conference includes the flagship public university in each of 11 states stretching from New Jersey to Nebraska, as well as two additional public land-grant schools and a private university.

Members

Current members

East Division

Indiana Hoosiers • Maryland Terrapins • Michigan Wolverines • Michigan State Spartans • Ohio State Buckeyes • Penn State Nittany Lions • Rutgers Scarlet Knights

West Division

Illinois Fighting Illini • Iowa Hawkeyes • Minnesota Golden Gophers • Nebraska Cornhuskers • Northwestern Wildcats • Purdue Boilermakers • Wisconsin Badgers

Former members

Chicago Maroons

Media guides and yearbooks by sport

Media guides

Football

1990s	1990
2000s	2007

Men's basketball

1990s	1996-97