The 1993 Big Ten Conference football season was the 98th season of college football played by the member schools of the Big Ten Conference and was a part of the 1993 NCAA Division I-A football season.
After being unanimously voted into the conference on June 4, 1990, Penn State began its first official football season as a member of the Big Ten for this season.
Regular season Wisconsin and Ohio State tied for the conference championship with 6-1-1 records, which included a 14-14 tie between the squads on November 6 in Madison. Wisconsin won the Rose Bowl invitation tiebreaker due to Big Ten rules which resolved first-place ties by eliminating the most recent invitee: Wisconsin had last been to the Rose Bowl in 1963, while Ohio State was in the 1985 Rose Bowl.DAVID E. SANGER - COLLEGE FOOTBALL; Wisconsin Is on Top a World Away. New York Times December 6, 1993
Penn State's first Big Ten season resulted in a third place finish at 6-2, 10-2 overall. They opened and closed their conference season with brand new trophy games against Minnesota and Michigan State.
At 5-3 in conference play, Indiana, Michigan, and Illinois tied for fourth place. Michigan State finished at 4-4, which was good for seventh.
Iowa and Minnesota tied for eighth with 3-5 conference records. Northwestern and Purdue both went winless with 0-8 records, which makes 1993 the most recent season that two Big Ten schools didn't win a conference game.
Bowl games
Seven Big Ten teams played in bowl games, going 4-3 overall:
Rose Bowl: No. 9 Wisconsin 21, No. 14 UCLA 16 : No. 13 Penn State 31, No. 6 Tennessee 13 Hall of Fame Bowl: No. 23 Michigan 42, NC State 7 Alamo Bowl: California 37, Iowa 3 Independence Bowl: No. 22 Virginia Tech 45, No. 21 Indiana 20 Holiday Bowl: No. 11 Ohio State 28, BYU 21 Liberty Bowl: No. 25 Louisville 18, Michigan State 7
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