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The Big Ten Conference is the United States ' oldest College Athletic Conference . Its member institutions are located in the northern United States , stretching from Iowa and Minnesota in the west to Pennsylvania in the east. The conference competes in the NCAA 's Division I-A in Football . Member schools of the Big Ten conference are also 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 eleven schools in the Big Ten, as signified by the Hidden "11" in the Big Ten Conference Logo . MEMBERS The conference's current member schools, ordered by length of continuous membership and alphabetically by each university's common name, are:
Former member of the conference:
Attended 1895 meeting but was not a member of the conference: The Big Ten is the only 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. Member schools participate in Baseball , men's and women's Basketball , Cross Country , Field Hockey , Football , Golf , Gymnastics , indoor and outdoor Track , Rowing , men's and women's Soccer , Softball , Swimming and Diving , Tennis , women's Volleyball and Wrestling . Logos RIVALRIES Big Ten Football The members of the Big Ten have long-standing rivalries with each other, especially on the football field. Many of them have travelling trophies at stake. Some Big Ten rivalries include (with their respective travelling trophy in parentheses):
As of 2006, the Big Ten champion has the Rose Bowl (a BCS bowl) tie in, and the following non-BCS bowl tie ins (picks are after BCS selections, i.e., if two Big Ten teams participate in BCS bowls, the bowl with the #1 pick will select the third team):
Notice that while the pick order usually corresponds to the standings in the conference, bowls do not have to pick according to the standings. Many factors influence bowl selections, including the turnout of the fans for past bowl games. List Of Big Ten Conference Football Champions Big Ten Men's Basketball The Big Ten has always 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 5 titles, Michigan State with 2 titles, and Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ohio State each with one title.
Other Rivalries Purdue, Michigan State and Michigan are among the Big Ten teams who also have traditional rivalries with Notre Dame . Penn State had a long-standing rivalry with Pittsburgh of the Big East , but the two schools have not met since 2000 . Penn State also had long-standing rivalries with West Virginia , Syracuse , and Rutgers of the Big East , Maryland and Boston College of the ACC , and football independent Temple . Penn State also had a rivalry with Notre Dame in the 1980s and early 1990s , which was ended when Penn State moved to the Big Ten, although the two schools will renew the series with a home-and-home series in 2006 at Notre Dame Stadium and in 2007 at Beaver Stadium . Iowa has an in-state rivalry with Iowa State , with the winner getting the Cy-Hawk Trophy . 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 long-standing basketball rivalry with Missouri , with the two men's teams squaring off annually in the "Braggin' Rights" game in St. Louis . 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. CONFERENCE STADIUMS
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