The
Big Ten Conference is the United States
' oldest Division I college athletic
conference. Its eleven member institutions are located
primarily in the Midwestern United States, stretching from Iowa
and Minnesota
in the west to Pennsylvania
in the east. The conference competes in the
NCAA's
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.
Member schools of the Big Ten also are members of the
Committee on
Institutional Cooperation, a leading educational consortium.
Despite
the conference's name, since Penn State
joined in 1990, there have been 11 schools in the
Big Ten, as signified by the hidden "11" in the Big Ten Conference
logo (each "1" is on either side of the "T" in
"Ten").
Members
The Big Ten is the only Division I conference to have all of its
member institutions affiliated with the
Association of American
Universities, a prestigious collection of 60 research
institutions, and leads all conferences in the total amount of
research expenditures.
All or most member schools participate in
baseball, men's and women's
basketball,
cross country,
field hockey,
football,
golf,
gymnastics, indoor and outdoor
track and field,
rowing, men's and women's
soccer,
softball,
swimming and
diving,
tennis, women's
volleyball and
wrestling.
| Institution |
Location |
Founded |
Joined Big Ten |
Affiliation |
Undergrad Enrollment |
Nickname |
Varsity Teams |
NCAA Championships (As of Fall 2008)
(excludes football) |
Big Ten Championships (As of Spring 2008) |
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign |
Champaign, Illinois
(75,254)
|
1867 |
1896 |
Public |
30,895 |
Fighting
Illini |
21 |
17 |
226 |
Indiana University |
Bloomington, Indiana
(69,291)
|
1820 |
1899
(Athletics 1900)
|
Public |
30,394 |
Hoosiers |
24 |
23 |
161 |
University of Iowa |
Iowa City, Iowa
(67,062)
|
1847 |
1899
(Athletics 1900)
|
Public |
20,907 |
Hawkeyes |
24 |
23 |
103 |
University of Michigan |
Ann Arbor, Michigan
(114,024)
|
1817 |
1896
Inactive
1907-1916
|
Public |
26,083 |
Wolverines |
27 |
32 |
343 |
Michigan State University |
East Lansing, Michigan
(46,525)
|
1855 |
1950
(Athletics 1953)
|
Public |
36,072 |
Spartans |
25 |
19 |
78 |
University of Minnesota |
Minneapolis, Minnesota
(388,020)
|
1851 |
1896 |
Public |
38,645 |
Golden Gophers |
25 |
15 |
149 |
Northwestern University |
Evanston, Illinois
(74,239)
|
1851 |
1896 |
Private/
Non-sectarian |
8,284 |
Wildcats |
19 |
5 |
68 |
Ohio State University |
Columbus, Ohio
(747,755)
|
1870 |
1912 |
Public |
40,212* |
Buckeyes |
36 |
22 |
181 |
Pennsylvania State University |
State College, Pennsylvania
(38,420)
|
1855 |
1990
(Athletics 1993)
|
Public |
36,612* |
Nittany
Lions |
29 |
35 |
45 |
Purdue University |
West Lafayette, Indiana
(28,778)
|
1869 |
1896 |
Public |
31,290 |
Boilermakers |
18 |
3 |
66 |
University of
Wisconsin–Madison |
Madison, Wisconsin
(223,389)
|
1848 |
1896 |
Public |
28,999 |
Badgers |
23 |
25 |
179 |
| Former Member |
Location |
Founded |
Joined Big Ten |
Affiliation |
Undergrad Enrollment |
Nickname |
Varsity Teams |
NCAA Championships (as a member) |
Big Ten Championships |
University of Chicago |
Chicago , Illinois |
1890 |
1896-1946 |
Private/Non-sectarian |
5,027 |
Maroons |
19 |
1 |
73 |
Locations of current Big Ten
Conference full member institutions.
Endowment
- Michigan - $7.1 billion
- Northwestern - $6.5 billion
- Minnesota - $2.8 billion
- Illinois - $2.2 billion
- Ohio State - $2.3 billion
- Purdue - $1.8 billion
- Penn State - $1.6 billion
- Wisconsin - $1.6 billion
- Indiana - $1.6 billion
- Michigan State - $1.25 billion
- Iowa - $882 million
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History
On
January 11, 1895, the presidents of the University
of Chicago, the University of Illinois, Lake Forest
College, the University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, Purdue University and the University of Wisconsin met in Chicago to discuss the regulation and control of
intercollegiate athletics. The eligibility of
student-athletes was one of the main topics of discussion. The
Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty
Representatives was founded at a second meeting on
February 8, 1896.
Lake Forest was not at the 1896 meeting that
established the conference and was replaced by the University
of Michigan. At the time, the organization was more
commonly known as the
Western Conference,
consisting of Purdue, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois,
Chicago, and Northwestern.
The first
reference to the conference as the Big Nine was in
1899 after Iowa and Indiana had joined. In January 1908, Michigan and the conference parted ways. Ohio
State was added to the conference in 1912. The
first reference to the conference as the
Big Ten
was in November 1917 after Michigan rejoined following a nine-year
absence.
The conference was again known as the Big Nine after the University
of Chicago decided to de-emphasize varsity athletics just after
World War II. Chicago discontinued its
football program in 1939 and withdrew from the conference in 1946
after struggling to gain victories in many conference matchups. It
was believed that one of several schools, notably Pittsburgh,
Nebraska, Michigan State, Marquette, Notre Dame, and Iowa State
would replace Chicago at the time. On May 20, 1949, Michigan State
ended the speculation by joining and the conference was again known
as the Big Ten. The Big Ten's membership would remain unchanged for
the next 40 years.
The conference’s official name throughout this period remained the
Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives. It did not
formally adopt the name
Big Ten until 1987, when it was
incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation.
In 1990, the Big Ten
universities voted to expand the conference to 11 teams, and
extended an invitation to Penn State, which it accepted. When Penn State joined
in 1990, it was decided that the conference would continue to be
called the Big Ten, but its
logo was modified
to reflect the change; the number 11 is disguised in the white
areas of the traditionally blue "Big Ten" lettering.
Following
the addition of previously independent Penn State, efforts were
made to encourage the University of Notre Dame
, the last remaining non-service academy independent,
to join the league. Early in the 20th century, Notre Dame
had sought official entry into the Big Ten but was never extended
an invitation. However, in 1999, both Notre Dame and the Big Ten
entered into private negotiations concerning a possible membership
that would include Notre Dame. Although the Notre Dame faculty
senate endorsed the idea with a near unanimous vote, the ND board
of trustees decided against joining the conference and Notre Dame
ultimately withdrew from negotiations.
[11641] Around 1993, it was also explored by the
league to add Kansas
, Missouri, and Rutgers, or other potential schools
to create a 14-team league with two divisions. These talks
died when the
Big 8 Conference
merged with former
Southwest
Conference members to create the
Big 12.
Other possible universities that have gained favor for any possible
expansion for the 12th spot in the conference include:
These schools all belong to rival
BCS
conferences. The six BCS conferences are, overall, roughly on
an equal footing with each other. It is uncertain whether any of
the schools listed would be interested in membership in the Big Ten
conference.
Due to a requirement of the Big Ten bylaws, any expansion must be
within, or next to, current Big Ten territory (although, like all
bylaws, this could be amended by conference vote). Due to the
addition of the Big Ten Network, expansion talks have been
revisited. Expansion could mean adding a conference championship
football game and adding a school in or near a large TV market,
greatly aiding the Big Ten Network's marketability. It is likely
academics will also play an important role in any potential 12th
school being invited into the conference.
One other requirement for Big Ten adoption is membership in the
very exclusive
Association of American
Universities, an organization of the top doctoral research
institutions of Canada and the United States.
Commissioners
The office of the commissioner of athletics was created in 1922 "to
study athletic problems of the various member universities and
assist in enforcing the eligibility rules which govern Big Ten
athletics."
| Name |
Years |
Notes |
| Major John L. Griffith |
1922-1944 |
died in office |
| Kenneth L. "Tug" Wilson |
1945-1961 |
retired |
| Bill Reed |
1961-1971 |
died in office |
| Wayne Duke |
1971-1989 |
retired |
| James Delany |
1989- |
present |
Football
Bowl games
Since
1946, the Big Ten champion has had a tie-in with the Rose Bowl
game
, now a BCS
bowl. The Big Ten also has tie-ins with six non-BCS
bowls.
Beginning with the 2010 football season, the Big Ten will have a
new postseason alignment:
- Rose Bowl Game
: Pasadena, California (Big Ten champion against
Pac-10 champion)
- Capital One Bowl: Orlando,
Florida (Big Ten #2 pick against SEC #2 pick)
- Outback Bowl: Tampa, Florida (Big
Ten #3 pick against SEC #3/4 pick)
- Gator Bowl: Jacksonville, Florida
(Big Ten #4/5 pick against SEC pick)
- Insight Bowl: Tempe, Arizona (Big
Ten #4/5 pick against Big 12 pick)
- Texas Bowl: Houston, Texas (Big Ten
#6 pick against Big 12 #6 pick)
- Dallas Football Classic:
Dallas, Texas (Big Ten #7 pick against Conference USA pick)
- Little Caesars Pizza
Bowl (under consideration): Detroit, Michigan (Big Ten #8 pick
against MAC champion)
Michigan appeared in the first
bowl game,
the
1902 Rose Bowl. The Big Ten did
not allow their schools to participate in bowl games, other than
the Rose Bowl, until the agreement struck with the Pacific Coast
Conference for the
1947 Rose Bowl.
From 1946 through 1971, the Big Ten did not allow the same team to
represent the conference in consecutive years in the Rose Bowl with
an exception made after the 1961 season in which Minnesota played
in the
1962 Rose Bowl after playing
in the
1961 Rose Bowl due to Ohio
State declining the bid. It was not until the 1975 season that the
Big Ten allowed teams to play in bowl games other than the Rose
Bowl. Due to those rules, Big Ten powers such as Michigan and Ohio
State have lower numbers of all-time bowl appearances than
powerhouse teams from the
Big 12
Conference (formerly the
Big 8
Conference and
Southwest Conference) and
Southeastern Conference,
which always placed multiple teams in bowl games every year.
Bowl selection procedures
Although the pick order usually corresponds to the conference
standings, the bowls are not required to make their choices
strictly according to the won-lost records; many factors influence
bowl selections, especially the turnout of the fans for past bowl
games. Picks are made after BCS selections; the bowl with the #2
pick will have the first pick of the remaining teams in the
conference.
The Capital One, Outback, Alamo and Champs Sports Bowls can select
any eligible team except a team that has two fewer wins or two more
losses than another eligible team. The Insight and Motor City Bowls
have no such restrictions, but if two Big Ten teams are selected by
BCS bowls, the Alamo and Champs Sports Bowls also do not have that
restriction. However, the bowls cannot select a 6-6 team if a 7-5
or better team is not selected by a Big Ten-affiliated bowl.
Marching bands
Big Ten football games are also well known for the participation
and excellence of the Big Ten Conference universities'
marching bands. Nine of the eleven
participating Big Ten Conference universities have won the
Sudler Trophy, the most prestigious award a
collegiate marching band can receive. The first three trophies were
all awarded to Big Ten conference members, and the Big Ten boasts
more Sudler Trophy award winners than any other conference.
During the pre-game show performance, the marching band of a Big
Ten Conference university has the tradition of playing the opposing
team's fight song. The origin of this tradition is from the Big
Ten's Purdue University where the "All-American" Marching Band
became the first school in history to play their opponent's fight
song.
Men's basketball
The Big Ten has participated in basketball since 1904, and has led
the nation in attendance every season since 1978. It has been a
national powerhouse in
men's
basketball, having multiple championship winners and often
sending four or more teams to the
NCAA Men's
Basketball Tournament. Previous NCAA champions include Indiana
with five titles, Michigan State with two, and Wisconsin, Michigan,
and Ohio State with one each. Ohio State played in the first NCAA
tournament national championship game in 1939, losing to Oregon.
Despite this, Jimmy Hull of Ohio State was the first NCAA
tournament MVP. The first three tournament MVP's came from the Big
Ten (Marv Huffman of Indiana in 1940 and John Katz of Wisconsin in
1941).
Big Ten teams have also experienced success in the postseason
NIT. Since 1974, 13
Big Ten teams have made it to the championship game, winning eight
championships. NIT champions from the Big Ten include Michigan and
Ohio State with two, and Indiana, Minnesota, Penn State, and Purdue
with one each.
In addition, the
Helms
Athletic Foundation recognizes Illinois as the 1915 National
Champions, Minnesota as the 1902 and 1919 National Champions,
Northwestern as the 1931 National Champion, Purdue as the 1932
National Champions, and Wisconsin as the 1912, 1914 and 1916
National Champions.
Since 1999, the Big Ten has taken part in the
ACC–Big Ten Challenge with the
Atlantic Coast Conference.
The ACC holds an 10-0 record against the Big Ten, and Michigan
State is the only Big Ten school with a winning record in the
challenge.
NCAA tournament champions, runners-up and locations
†denotes overtime games. Multiple †'s indicate more
than one overtime.
| Year |
Champion |
Runner-up |
Venue and city |
| 1939 |
Oregon |
46 |
Ohio
State |
33 |
Patten Gymnasium |
Evanston, Illinois |
| 1940 |
Indiana |
60 |
Kansas |
42 |
Municipal
Auditorium |
Kansas City, Missouri |
| 1941 |
Wisconsin |
39 |
Washington State |
34 |
Municipal Auditorium |
Kansas City, Missouri |
| 1953 |
Indiana |
69 |
Kansas |
68 |
Municipal Auditorium |
Kansas City, Missouri |
| 1956 |
San
Francisco |
83 |
Iowa |
71 |
McGaw
Hall |
Evanston, Illinois |
| 1960 |
Ohio
State |
75 |
California |
55 |
Cow
Palace |
San Francisco, California |
| 1961†|
Cincinnati |
70 |
Ohio
State |
65 |
Municipal Auditorium |
Kansas City, Missouri |
| 1962 |
Cincinnati |
71 |
Ohio
State |
59 |
Freedom Hall |
Louisville, Kentucky |
| 1965 |
UCLA |
91 |
Michigan |
80 |
Memorial Coliseum |
Portland, Oregon |
| 1969 |
UCLA |
92 |
Purdue |
72 |
Freedom Hall |
Louisville, Kentucky |
| 1976 |
Indiana |
86 |
Michigan |
68 |
Spectrum |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 1979 |
Michigan
State |
75 |
Indiana State |
64 |
Jon M. Huntsman Center |
Salt Lake City, Utah |
| 1981 |
Indiana |
63 |
North
Carolina |
50 |
Spectrum |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 1987 |
Indiana |
74 |
Syracuse |
73 |
Louisiana Superdome |
New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 1989†|
Michigan |
80 |
Seton Hall |
79 |
Kingdome |
Seattle , Washington |
| 1992 |
Duke |
71 |
Michigan |
51 |
Metrodome |
Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| 1993 |
North
Carolina |
77 |
Michigan |
71 |
Louisiana Superdome |
New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 2000 |
Michigan
State |
89 |
Florida |
76 |
RCA Dome |
Indianapolis, Indiana |
| 2002 |
Maryland |
64 |
Indiana |
52 |
Georgia Dome |
Atlanta, Georgia |
| 2005 |
North
Carolina |
75 |
Illinois |
70 |
Edward Jones Dome |
St. Louis, Missouri |
| 2007 |
Florida |
84 |
Ohio
State |
75 |
Georgia Dome |
Atlanta, Georgia |
| 2009 |
North
Carolina |
89 |
Michigan
State |
72 |
Ford
Field |
Detroit, Michigan |
|
Post-season NIT championships
| Year |
Champion |
Runner-up |
MVP |
Venue and city |
| 1974 |
Purdue |
87 |
Utah |
81 |
Mike Sojourner, Utah |
Madison Square Garden |
New York City |
| 1979 |
Indiana |
53 |
Purdue |
52 |
Butch Carter and Ray Tolbert,
Indiana |
Madison Square Garden |
New York City |
| 1980 |
Virginia |
58 |
Minnesota |
55 |
Ralph Sampson, Virginia |
Madison Square Garden |
New York City |
| 1982 |
Bradley |
68 |
Purdue |
61 |
Mitchell Anderson, Bradley |
Madison Square Garden |
New York City |
| 1984 |
Michigan |
83 |
Notre Dame |
63 |
Tim McCormick, Michigan |
Madison Square Garden |
New York City |
| 1985 |
UCLA |
65 |
Indiana |
62 |
Reggie Miller, UCLA |
Madison Square Garden |
New York City |
| 1986 |
Ohio
State |
73 |
Wyoming |
63 |
Brad Sellers, Ohio State |
Madison Square Garden |
New York City |
| 1988 |
Connecticut |
72 |
Ohio
State |
67 |
Phil Gamble, UConn |
Madison Square Garden |
New York City |
| 1993 |
Minnesota |
62 |
Georgetown |
61 |
Voshon Lenard, Minnesota |
Madison Square Garden |
New York City |
| 1997 |
Michigan |
82 |
Florida
State |
73 |
Louis Bullock, Michigan |
Madison Square Garden |
New York City |
| 2004 |
Michigan |
62 |
Rutgers |
55 |
Daniel Horton, Michigan |
Madison Square Garden |
New York City |
| 2006 |
South
Carolina |
76 |
Michigan |
64 |
Renaldo Balkman, South
Carolina |
Madison Square Garden |
New York City |
| 2008 |
Ohio
State |
92 |
Massachusetts |
85 |
Kosta Koufos, Ohio State |
Madison Square Garden |
New York City |
| 2009 |
Penn
State |
69 |
Baylor |
63 |
Jamelle Cornley, Penn State |
Madison Square Garden |
New York City |
Women's basketball
Women's basketball teams have played a total of nine times in the
NCAA
Women's Division I Basketball Championship (since 1982) and
Women's National
Invitation Tournament (since 1998). Big Ten women's teams have
also led conference attendance from 1993-1999.
NCAA tournament champions, runners-up and locations
Women's National Invitation Tournament championship games
Rivalries
Big Ten football
The members of the Big Ten have longstanding rivalries with each
other, especially on the football field. Each school has at least
one traveling trophy at stake. Some Big Ten rivalries include (with
their respective traveling trophy in parentheses):
Furthermore, the Big Ten football schedule is set up with each team
having two permanent rivalries within the conference, with the
other eight teams in the conference rotating out of the schedule in
pairs for two-year stints. Permanent rivalries are as follows:
- Illinois: Indiana, Northwestern
- Indiana: Illinois, Purdue
- Iowa: Minnesota, Wisconsin
- Michigan: Michigan State, Ohio State
- Michigan State: Michigan, Penn State
- Minnesota: Iowa, Wisconsin
- Northwestern: Illinois, Purdue
- Ohio State: Michigan, Penn State
- Penn State: Michigan State, Ohio State
- Purdue: Indiana, Northwestern
- Wisconsin: Iowa, Minnesota
Big Ten Basketball
Indiana and Purdue have a heated rivalry in college basketball
between the two schools with the most Big Ten basketball
championships, winning 41 times between the two schools.
Michigan State and Wisconsin also have a recent venomous rivalry -
Michigan State beat Wisconsin in the
2000 Final
Four en route to their national championship. In 2008 the
unranked Spartans upset the top-ranked Badgers in East Lansing,
further adding to the rivalry. In the most recent big game between
the two, Michigan State beat the Badgers in East Lansing, in the
only meeting of the season. However, the Badgers under head coach
Bo Ryan have beaten Tom Izzo's Spartans eleven times. Izzo has led
MSU to only four victories against Wisconsin during this
time-span.
In recent years, Illinois and Michigan State have also enjoyed some
competitive rivalry matches with each other, particularly during
the season of 2004-2005, when both Illinois and Michigan State made
it to the Final Four.
Extra-conference rivalries
Purdue, Michigan State and Michigan are among the Big Ten football
teams that have rivalries with
Notre Dame.
After the University of Southern California with 28 wins, the
Michigan State Spartans have the winningest record against the
Irish, with 27. The Purdue Boilermakers follow with 26.
Penn State had a longstanding
rivalry with
Pittsburgh of the
Big East, but the two schools have not met since
2000.
Penn State also had long histories with
independent Notre Dame; West Virginia
, Syracuse
, and Rutgers
of the Big East; Maryland
and Boston College
of the ACC; and Temple
, of the Mid-American Conference . Penn State also has
strong intrastate rivalries with Patriot
League universities Bucknell
in men's basketball and men's lacrosse, and
Lehigh
in wrestling. Most of these rivalries
were cultivated while Penn State operated independent of conference
affiliation; the constraints of playing a full conference schedule,
especially in football, have reduced the number of meetings between
Penn State and its non-Big Ten rivals.
Iowa has
an in-state rivalry with Iowa State
, with the winner getting the Cy-Hawk Trophy. Iowa also holds
rivalries in basketball with Drake
and Northern Iowa
.
Indiana
has an out-of conference rivalry with Kentucky
, but the rivalry has a much higher profile in
basketball than in football.
Illinois
has a longstanding basketball rivalry with Missouri
, with the two men's teams squaring off annually in
the "Braggin' Rights" game in
St.
Louis. This rivalry has been carried over into
football as "The Arch Rivalry" with games played at the Edward
Jones Dome in St. Louis in 2002 and 2003 and four games
scheduled from 2007 to 2010.[11642]
Wisconsin has a long-standing, in-state
basketball rivalry with Marquette
. The series has intensified as of late
with both teams having made the
Final Four in
recent years. The schools also played an annual football game
before Marquette abandoned its football program in 1961.
In the
early days of the Big Ten, the Chicago-Michigan game was played on Thanksgiving, usually with conference
championship implications and was considered one of the first major
rivalries of the conference. Also in the early days of the
conference, and at Knute Rockne's
insistence, Northwestern and Notre Dame had a yearly contest, with the winner taking home a
shillelagh, much like the winner
of the USC
-Notre Dame and Purdue-Notre Dame contests now
receive. The Northwestern-Notre Dame shillelagh was largely
forgotten by the early 1960s and is now solely an element of
college football's storied past.
Conference facilities
The Big Ten has the distinction of being the conference with the
most stadiums seating over 100,000, at three (Beaver Stadium,
Michigan Stadium, and Ohio Stadium.). There are only two other
stadiums of that size in college football.
They are Neyland
Stadium
at the University of Tennessee
in the Southeastern Conference and Darrell K.
Royal-Texas Memorial
Stadium at the University of Texas at
Austin
in the Big 12
Conference.
The three stadiums are the three largest stadiums in the
List of American
football stadiums by capacity, as well as, third, fourth, and
sixth in the list of the
largest sports stadiums in the
world.
| School |
Football stadium |
Stadium capacity |
Basketball arena |
Arena capacity |
Baseball stadium |
Stadium capacity |
| Illinois |
Memorial Stadium |
70,000 |
Assembly Hall |
16,618 |
Illinois Field |
3,000 |
| Indiana |
Memorial Stadium |
52,692 |
Assembly Hall |
17,456 |
Sembower Field |
2,250 |
| Iowa |
Kinnick Stadium |
70,585 |
Carver-Hawkeye Arena |
15,500 |
Duane Banks Field |
3,000 |
| Michigan |
Michigan Stadium |
106,201 |
Crisler Arena |
13,751 |
Ray Fisher Stadium |
4,000 |
| Michigan State |
Spartan Stadium |
75,005 |
Breslin Student Events
Center |
16,280 |
Drayton McLane Baseball Stadium at John
H. Kobs Field/Oldsmobile Park |
2,500/11,000 |
| Minnesota |
TCF Bank Stadium |
50,805 |
Williams Arena |
14,321 |
Siebert Field /Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome |
1,500/46,564 |
| Northwestern |
Ryan Field |
49,256 |
Welsh-Ryan Arena |
8,117 |
Rocky Miller Park |
1,000 |
| Ohio State |
Ohio Stadium |
102,329 |
Value City Arena |
19,500 |
Bill Davis Stadium |
4,450 |
| Penn State |
Beaver Stadium |
107,282 |
Bryce Jordan Center |
15,261 |
Medlar Field at Lubrano
Park |
5,406 |
| Purdue |
Ross-Ade Stadium |
62,500 |
Mackey Arena |
14,123 |
Lambert Field |
1,100 |
| Wisconsin |
Camp Randall Stadium |
80,321 |
Kohl Center |
17,190 |
No baseball team |
N/A |
Media
On June 21, 2006, the Big Ten announced new
television broadcast agreements. This involved a
10-year extension of its contract with
ABC/
ESPN
as well as the formation of a brand new cable/satellite channel,
the
Big Ten Network. The Big Ten
Network began broadcasting on August 30, 2007, "dedicated to
covering both the athletic and academic content of the Big Ten
member institutions on a national level". The Big Ten Network
represents a 20-year partnership between the Big Ten and
Fox. It is majority-owned by the Big
Ten Conference, with Fox holding a minority interest. The official
network name and logo were announced on October 12, 2006. The
conference announced previously that it is continuing its
relationship with
CBS and
ESPN for network broadcasts in basketball. Games on Big
Ten Network replace the previous contract with
ESPN Plus.
On April 2, 2009, Ohio State signed a 10-year media-rights
agreement with IMG College and RadiOhio, worth nearly $128 million,
the largest such agreement in college sports.
See also
References
- Includes only Columbus Main campus.
- Includes only University Park campus.
- Fast Facts[1]
- http://www.uifoundation.org/about/faq/faq4.shtml#faq4-04
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http://www.crimsonquarry.com/2007/07/expansion-talk-again.html
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http://www.crimsonquarry.com/2007/07/expansion-talk-again.html
- kansascity
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http://www.crimsonquarry.com/2007/07/expansion-talk-again.html
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http://www.crimsonquarry.com/2007/07/expansion-talk-again.html
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http://www.crimsonquarry.com/2007/07/expansion-talk-again.html
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http://www.crimsonquarry.com/2007/07/expansion-talk-again.html
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http://www.crimsonquarry.com/2007/07/expansion-talk-again.html
- desmoinesregister
- traditions
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Northwestern University Wildcat Marching Band#Pregame and
Halftime
- Michigan
Marching Band#Visitor's Fight Song
- [2] Purdue Marching Band firsts
- http://hailtopurple.com/features/trophyhistory.html
- The Big Ten Conference Announces Media Agreements
Increasing National Coverage of Big Ten Sports
- Big Ten and Fox Announce Official Name and Unveil Logo for
Big Ten Network
- Ohio State announces media deal
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