Big Ten Miles Traveled: Team-By-Team Rankings Skew Toward Coasts
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The Big Ten's conference TV ad takes us from the Pacific Northwest to the Jersey Shore. As our Big Ten Miles Traveled team-by-team breakdown shows, no college football conference matches the Big Ten in geographic scope as it boasts teams on both coasts. The UCLA Bruins lead the conference with 16,324.3 miles traveled. That equates to 10.9% of the 149,282.3 miles covered by all 18 Big Ten teams this season.
Meanwhile, Rutgers, the eastern-most team in the Big Ten, travels just 4096.5 miles in five road trips. The fewest miles of any Big Ten team. Rutgers' longest road trip - to face the Badgers in Madison, Wisconsin on November 7 - takes just 1582.7 miles to complete.
When it comes to the Big Ten Miles Traveled and the conference schedule, Big Ten officials give their teams an edge over SEC, Big 12, and ACC counterparts. Those conferences have their teams playing at least 10 Power 4 opponents. But four Big Ten teams - national championship Indiana, Penn State, USC and Nebraska — face only nine Power 4 opponents.
Also of interest: SEC Miles Traveled: 'Ole South' Teams Carry Major Edge.
Our longest Big Ten Miles Traveled road trip comes with UCLA's game at Rutgers on September 19. It sends the Bruins on a 4,863.6-mile journey.
But the Big Ten also offers the 2nd-shortest intra-conference road trip among all Power 5 schools. USC's visit to UCLA and Rose Bowl remains a mere 24.5-mile round-trip. Only Duke's annual clash against North Carolina in the ACC covers fewer round-trip miles (16.7).
Big Ten Miles Traveled: All 18 Teams Ranked
Here the team-by-team breakdown of the miles traveled by each of the 18 Big Ten teams this season. The Big Ten Championship Game takes place at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Saturday, Dec. 5.
Our computations are determined from stadium-to-stadium for each game. We measure our distance based on the coordinates of each stadium's site, as noted on Google Earth. We then use Vincenty's inverse formula, which takes into account the orbital shape of the Earth being flattened at its poles, to determine the one-way and round-trip distances. The calculations are performed by Claude AI.
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Big Ten Enters 2026 With Natty Bragging Rights - Again
The Big Ten enters 2026 with national championship bragging rights for the third straight season. Curt Cignetti's Indiana Hoosiers completed perhaps the greatest college football season of all time in January with a win over Miami in the national championship game. The 16-0 Hoosiers lost - among others - Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza to Michigan alum Tom Brady and the LA Raiders.
Ohio State enters the summer as +180 favorites to win the Big Ten at DraftKings. Traders on Kalshi have the Buckeyes with a 31% chance to win the conference. It's almost is if Ryan Day is already sitting on third base.
Meanwhile, three of the top five favorites on DraftKings to win the national title play in the Big Ten: Ohio State (+650), Indiana (+750) and Oregon (+800). They're joined by Notre Dame (+700) and Texas (tied with IU at +750)
Kalshi has those same Big Ten teams in its top six teams to win the national championship. Oregon is No. 2 on that platform, with an 11% chance to win it all, trailing only Texas (12%).
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