Ohio State Gets Major Pay Day as Big 10 Pays Out Each of its Member Schools
The Big Ten gets a major payday and redistributes the funds to its member programs.
The landscape in college football continues to evolve, and on Friday, some of the most recent changes began to manifest themselves. In the first year of the new media rights deal in the Big Ten, the teams were paid out for their contributions to the conference. The numbers are staggering.
The Big Ten generated $1. 47 billion dollars in 2025. The conference distributed $1.
37 billion of those dollars to the schools. As a surprise to very few, Ohio State cashed the biggest check in the conference and had a payday of $91. 55 million, followed closely, and surprisingly, by Penn State, which pocketed $88.
9 million. The third-highest-grossing school was, surprisingly, the National Champions, the Indiana Hoosiers. Indiana received $81 million, over $10 million less than what Ohio State received.