Big Ten Football 2025 Team-By-Team Miles Traveled: Oregon Ducks Take Flight

The 18-team Big Ten team will travel more than 162,000 combined miles this upcoming football season.  

The formal addition of UCLA, Washington, Oregon, and Southern Cal in 2024 added a four more teams to everyone's favorite TV sports conference PSA. 

The four Big Ten schools in the Pacific Time Zone dominate a conference in travel miles that was once the sole domain of the Midwest. These inequities could impact college football betting season. 

All four West Coast Big Ten teams will travel more than 14,000 miles apiece this season. In total, the conference's 18 football teams will travel 162,708.65 miles and cross 204 time zones. 

Meanwhile, five traditional Big Ten members - Indiana, Ohio State, Purdue, Iowa and Illinois - will each cover less than half that distance.  

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Using data compiled from Google Earth, bookies.com calculated the miles each Big Ten football team is scheduled to travel this season. The midpoint of each team’s stadium were used at the start/finish points.

Fittingly, the Oregon Ducks cover the most air miles of any Big 10 team this upcoming season, while Purdue travels the fewest.

Team-By-Team Big Ten 2025 Football Miles Traveled

Here is a rundown of how many miles each team in the new-and-expanded Big Ten will travel this season. Teams are ranked by the total miles traveled, and listed with the number of road trips they will take, the average of each round trip, the number of time zones each team will traverse, and the longest and shortest road trips each team will take.

Big Ten 2025 Travel Miles

Team	Miles	Average	TZ	Longest	Shortest
Oregon	16744.34	3348.868	20	4920.48	501.82
UCLA	15215.1	2535.85	20	3931.34	24.58
USC	14595.38	2919.076	18	3631.12	1479.1
Washington	14086.12	2817.224	16	4642.76	499.08
Rutgers	10429.94	2085.988	10	4770.82	904.54
Maryland	8504.83	1700.966	10	4583.44	506.07
Minnesota	8501.92	1700.384	10	3144.14	488.36
Michigan	8358.36	1393.06	12	3893.16	98.54
Nebraska	8263.78	1652.756	10	2518.52	339.64
Penn State	7545.28	1509.056	10	4473.92	357.8
Northwestern	7475.47	1067.924	6	3490.88	15.14
Michigan State	7463.74	1243.956	12	3825.54	156.04
Indiana	6582.32	1316.464	8	3802.56	178.16
Wisconsin	6096.89	1219.378	8	3349.24	293.01
Ohio State	6084.06	1216.812	10	4009.38	321.96
Iowa	5932.5	1186.5	6	3088.06	220.18
Illinois	5473.06	1094.612	10	3517.96	146.42
Purdue	5355.56	1071.112	8	3618.42	237.48

Oregon Travels Most Miles, Purdue The Fewest

The Ducks will travel 16744.34 miles and cross 20 time zones thanks in part to games at Penn State (4574.78 miles on Sept. 27) and Rutgers (4920.48 miles on Oct. 18).  The Oregon-Rutgers trip is the longest in the Big 10 this season. 

The shortest regularly-scheduled Big Ten intraconference road trip is now the annual USC-UCLA game. The Rose Bowl and LA Memorial Coliseum are just 12.29 miles apart.

Purdue travels the fewest number of miles of any Big 10 team this season at 5355.56 miles. Of that number, 3618.42 miles (or 67.5% of the total) are tallied due to a visit to Washington on Nov. 15. Ohio State's game at Washington on Sept. 27 covers 4009.38 miles, or 65.8% of the total miles that the Bucks will traverse this season.

The good news for Oregon is that their total is far lower than the 22,048.04 miles covered by UCLA last season. 

The Big 10 season begins at Noon on September 12 when Oregon visits Northwestern. 

This season, Northwestern continues to renovate its home field - Ryan Field. The Wildcats will be playing their first 5 homes games at Northwestern Medicine Field at Martin Stadium, on campus. The team's final 2 home games are set for Wrigley Field. That's 15.14-mile road trip from the NU campus. 

Team-By-Team Odds To Win Big Ten

Here’s a breakdown of the odds each Big Ten team has to win the conference championship via BetMGM. The Big 10 championship game will be played at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on December 6.

Big Ten Football 2025 Odds

Team	Odds
Ohio State	+170
Oregon	+230
Penn State	+380
Michigan	+800
Indiana	+2500
Nebraska	+4500
USC	+4500
Iowa	+5000
Washington	+6000
Illinois	+6000
Minnesota	+10000
Wisconsin	+18000
Michigan State	+18000
Maryland	+27000
UCLA	+27000
Northwestern	+50000
Purdue	+50000

Big Ten Football Realignment Details 

Five Big Ten teams have four road trips. There are 11 Big teams with five road trips. And two schools, UCLA and Washington, hit the road 6 times. 

This is the second Big Ten season with no divisional format. Its schedule follows a format used by the expanded SEC, ACC, and Big 12. 

Each school has "protected matchups" (aka “rivals”) in its schedule. 

The 12 protected matchups are Illinois-Northwestern, Illinois-Purdue, Indiana-Purdue, Iowa-Minnesota, Iowa-Nebraska, Iowa-Wisconsin, Maryland-Rutgers, Michigan-Michigan State, Michigan-Ohio State, Minnesota-Wisconsin, Oregon-Washington and UCLA-USC.

Each member institution plays nine intraconference games per season, and teams will play every other conference opponent at least twice – once home and once away – and will play rotating opponents no more than three times in a five-year period.

The two combatants in the Big Ten Football Championship Game will be determined by the  two teams in the overall conference standings at the end of the regular season. 

 Some dates on the schedule are subject to change and could be moved to accommodate the league’s new TV package. The Big Ten’s broadcast and streaming partners now include Fox, CBS, NBC, the Big Ten Network, and Peacock. Some games in the 2024 season may be adjusted to select special dates.