The BIG10 is a college football conference that has been around since the late 1800’s. The BIG10 conference originally consisted of teams: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan State, Minnesota, Ohio State, Chicago, Purdue, and Wisconsin. Although interestingly enough Ohio State is not one of the seven founding teams of the conference. These teams are Chicago, Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois, Northwestern, Purdue and Wisconsin. In 1899, Iowa and Indiana collectively decided to join the BIG10. In 1908 Michigan actually withdrew from the BIG10 and was not invited to make a return until late 1917. OSU happened to join the conference while Michigan was gone in the year of 1912. The only team ever to leave the BIG10 was Chicago in 1939 as they closed down the football program all together. The first real expansion team to the BIG10 was Penn State in 1990, even though they didn’t compete until 1993. Penn State won its first BIG10 championship shortly after in 1994. The next team to be added to the conference wasn’t until Nebraska in 2011. Nebraska made the decision to leave the BIG12 to join the BIG10, which now had 12 teams itself. The final change since then that has been official was Maryland and Rutgers back in 2014. Neither of these teams have done much of anything since they have been in the conference. The next big adjustment to the BIG10 conference is coming up next year for the 2024 college football season. This is that Washington and Oregon will be coming over from the west coast to join the BIG10 and be a part of the conference. Washington and Oregon will be leaving the PAC12, which will no longer be a conference after this season. The BIG10 is always changing and there’s nothing we can do about it as long as the teams keep changing conferences. Who knows what will be different within the next decade to come.