Within a four-year period, each team would play at least two games against every other team – one at home and one away. At the end of the season, the top two teams in the conference standings will play each other in the Big Ten Football Championship Game. Minnesota vacated its 1997 Big Ten Conference regular season title, Michigan vacated its 1998 Big Ten tournament title, and Ohio State vacated its 2002 Big Ten tournament, as well as 2000 and 2002 regular season titles, due to NCAA sanctions.

Soaring above the skyline in the historic Bland Shire village, it is the latest addition to Australia's list of Big Things! Australia's biggest Football was unveiled in March 2018 in the Bland Shire village of Ungarie with approximately 2000 people in attendance to mark the prestigious occasion.At the time, the organization was more commonly known as the Western Conference, consisting of Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Chicago, Purdue, and Northwestern. These talks died when the Big Eight Conference merged with former Southwest Conference members to create the Big 12. Maryland has many rivalries outside of the conference, most notably Duke, Virginia, West Virginia, and Navy. The inaugural season included six schools: Michigan, Michigan State and Ohio State joined from the disbanded CCHA; Minnesota and Wisconsin joined from the WCHA; and Penn State joined after playing its first NCAA Division I season (2012–13) as an independent.

At the end of the regular season the two division winners met in a new Big Ten Football Championship Game. Despite significant European success in the 1970s and early 1980s, the late 1980s marked a low point for English football. This system was discontinued after the 2010 season, as teams became grouped into two divisions, and would play all teams in their division once, with one protected cross-over game, and two games rotating against the other five opponents from the opposing division. It was believed that one of several schools, notably Iowa State, Marquette, Michigan State, Nebraska, Notre Dame, and Pittsburgh would replace Chicago at the time.The Big Football is an Ungarie Advancement Group project which was managed by Bland Shire Council in partnership with Triple M Rocks Footy. As part of the deal, Fox would retain its coverage of the Big Ten Championship as well as obtain priority over ESPN when drafting regular season football games prior to each season.