When Ohio State defeated Notre Dame to win the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff, it ended a 10-year national title drought for the Buckeyes and removed a large, scarlet and gray face-painted monkey off Ryan Day's back. It also gave the Big Ten ...

Welcome to the 2025 college football season. The Big Ten, which has won the last two national championships, for the third year in a row has two of the top three teams and six in the Top 25 — including No. 12 Illinois. Here’s what to know about the 18 ...

Saturday at home against Indiana in a battle of top-five teams, Ohio State will play its fifth of six consecutive games that kick off at noon ET. Some fans of the No. 2-ranked Buckeyes aren’t thrilled about the condensed tailgating scene and malaise that ...

When the Big Ten decided to move to an 18-team league without divisions, it set up a truly chaotic system. There are only two slots available in the Big Ten Championship Game with 18 teams vying for them. Many of the top contenders will not play each other.

The conference is weighing a $2 billion deal that could reshape revenue, control and the future of college athletics. The college athletics industrial complex rarely rests in its pursuit of the almighty dollar, and that is always apparent when power ...

It's called college athletics for a reason, with "college" being the main thing. Despite all the money now in college athletics, the players you watch on the field are still student-athletes. While we keep up with the stats and wins and losses on the field ...

Throughout the 2025 college football season, the SEC has dominated the Big Ten in the ratings. According to new data released by Nielsen, eight of the ten most-watched college football teams come from the SEC. Only Ohio State is in the top 10 for the Big Ten.

Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti is prepared to move forward with a plan to partner with UC Investments even without two of the league's schools on board. Lucas Peltier / Imagn Images Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti and the Big Ten’s presidents and ...

The Big Ten is "closing in" on a private equity agreement that could bring in a total of more than $2 billion for member programs, ESPN's Pete Thamel and Dan Wetzel reported Friday. There has been recent "momentum" on the deal and "a vote is expected in ...

Big Ten executives are socializing a plan with member schools to move forward with their capital investment proposal — even without Michigan and USC. The league has signaled to schools that it may hold a vote in two weeks to potentially adopt a 20-year ...

The Big Ten football schedule for the 2026 season will be released next week, according to an announcement on Tuesday.