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The Big Ten Conference (stylized B1G, formerly the Western Conference and the Big Nine Conference, among others) is the oldest NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States. Founded as the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives in 1896, it predates the founding of its regulating organization, the NCAA.
This organization would develop into the Big Ten Conference, a Power Five conference consisting entirely of NCAA Division I FBS schools. Around the time of its founding, it was more commonly called the Western Conference, and would become to be known as the Big Nine after the University of Iowa and Indiana University joined in 1899.
The Big Ten (then popularly known as the Western Conference) was founded in 1896, after which several other schools joined to form conferences, including the Pacific Coast Conference, the MVIAA, the Southwest Conference, the Southern Conference, the Mountain States Conference (also known as the Skyline Conference), and the Border Conference. In ...
With 11 members from 1993-2010, the Big Ten wasn’t splintered into divisions and didn’t have a conference championship game. That would soon change, though.
The Big Ten, the oldest Division I Conference in America, has expanded for the first time since 2014.Four teams are joining for the upcoming 2024 season, bringing the total number of team members ...
The nation's first college football league, the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives (also known as the Western Conference), a precursor to the Big Ten Conference, was founded in 1895. [70] Led by coach Fielding H. Yost, Michigan became the first "western" national power.
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.
Record Ranking; Year Champions Conference Overall AP Coaches Bowl result Head coach 1896 Wisconsin: 2–0–1: 7–1–1: Started in 1936: Started in 1950 – Philip King