Big Ten Championship Odds: Who’s Favored to Win the 2023 Big Ten Championship?

The Big Ten Championship takes place every year at the end of the college football regular season to determine the Big Ten conference’s season champion. The game matches the division winners from the Big Ten East division and the Big Ten West division. Typically this game, along with other conference championship games, is held during the first week of December after the regular season is completed (but before the bowl season gets underway). The Big Ten Championship Game has taken place every year since the game’s inception in 2011. The winner of the game receives an automatic berth into the Rose Bowl unless the winner makes the four-team Playoff (or if the Rose Bowl is one of the semifinal games for the four-team Playoff).

Despite other conferences having conference championship games (The SEC has had a conference championship game since 1992), the Big Ten did not institute a conference championship game until 2011. Prior to this, the Big Ten determined its champion through regular season play. Moreover, with the conference only having 11 teams, technically the Big Ten was ineligible to hold a conference championship game (The NCAA required a conference have 12 teams with two divisions in order to hold a conference championship game). When the Big Ten added Nebraska in 2010, the conference went to 12 teams and thus began an annual championship game in 2011. Now in 2023, the Big Ten Conference is up to 14 schools competing for its NCAA Football Championship.

The Big Ten Championship has taken place at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis since the inception of the game in 2011.

Big Ten Conference: All NCAAF Schools

The Big Ten Conference (NCAAF) is made up of 14 schools and features two divisions (East & West).

East Division

• Michigan
• Ohio State
• Penn State
• Maryland
• Michigan State
• Indiana
• Rutgers

West Division

• Purdue
• Illinois
• Iowa
• Minnesota
• Wisconsin
• Nebraska
• Northwestern

At the end of the regular season, the winners of the East and West divisions play head-to-head for the Big Ten Conference Championship.

Who is the best bet to win the Big Ten in 2023?

Ohio State is a popular pick to win the Big Ten Championship game this season, but are there any other teams that should warrant consideration? Chris Marler and Tyler Huck make their picks in the video below:

Big Ten Championship Odds: How to read them

If you are new to betting, here are a few tips on how to understand and read the odds that you see on this page. If a team has odds listed at -175 to win the Big Ten Championship, this means that you must bet $175 on this team to win $100. Typically for a championship game, most teams have a positive number listed for their odds and maybe a single heavy favorite in the negative odds.

If a team has a plus number, say +600, this means that if you bet $100 on this team to win, you would win $600 as a result.

Big Ten Championship Results History

• 2011: Michigan State 39, Wisconsin 42
• 2012: Nebraska 31, Wisconsin 70
• 2013: Michigan State 34, Ohio State 24
• 2014: Ohio State 59, Wisconsin 0
• 2015: Michigan State 16, Iowa 13
• 2016: Penn State 38, Wisconsin 31
• 2017: Ohio State 27, Wisconsin 21
• 2018: Ohio State 45, Northwestern 24
• 2019: Ohio State 34, Wisconsin 21
• 2020: Ohio State 22, Northwestern 10
• 2021: Michigan 42, Iowa 3
• 2022: Michigan 43, Purdue 22

Big Ten Championship Odds: 2023 Season

In this section, we will track the odds throughout the season to see which teams have been favored and how the odds have shifted throughout the season. We will use the average odds across the sportsbooks listed above. For the sake of brevity, we will only document the teams that have odds of +10000 or better.

Preseason
**odds courtesy of DraftKings Sportsbook

• Ohio State: +170
• Michigan: +180
• Penn State: +600
• Wisconsin: +650
• Iowa: +1400
• Illinois: +3500
• Minnesota: +4000
• Nebraska: +6000
• Purdue: +8000

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