You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know that Michigan and Ohio State are the two most successful and famous football programs in the Big Ten Conference. This point requires no explanation. The conversation gets interesting, regarding the Big Ten’s best football programs of all time, when we ask which school is the third best in the league. Right?
Penn State has a football history filled with achievement and glory, but the Nittany Lions only joined the Big Ten in the early 1990s. Their incredible 25-year journey, from the mid-1960s to the early 1990s, had just finished. Strictly in terms of football achievements that were achieved while a school was a member of the Big Ten, Penn State does not make the list. The same goes for Nebraska, which recorded all of its greatest accomplishments as a member of the Big Eight Conference, and then the Big 12. Nebraska is one of the greatest college football programs of all time, but not as a Big Ten member institution. USC and Washington aren’t two of the greatest Big Ten football schools of all time because everything they did was in the Pac-12 (and its previous iterations).
So which Big Ten school — as a longtime member of the Big Ten — is third-best all-time behind Michigan and Ohio State? Mark Rogers explains this on The Voice of College Football:
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