Four teams are still alive in the Big Ten Conference championship race entering Rivalry Week. Here's how each can make the title game in Indianapolis:

As the No. 6 Oregon Ducks prepare for a College Football Playoff run, there was still a Big Ten championship game at stake before the No. 1 Ohio State Buckeyes

The 2025 Big Ten regular season is officially in the books. With Ohio State 's decisive Week 14 road win over Michigan and Indiana's blowout triumph over Purdue, the Buckeyes and Hoosiers will meet in the conference title game next Saturday.

Penn State has made two appearances in the Big Ten championship game, which was introduced to the conference in 2011 following the expansion of the conference membership to 12 teams with the addition of Nebraska. Penn State won the conference championship game against Wisconsin in 2016 and fell to Oregon in last year's game.

Purdue, which has won two of the past three Big Ten regular-season championships, is second in the Top 25 And 1 with a 7-0 record featuring an 86-56 win over Texas Tech in the title game of the Baha Mar Championship.

With that, here is the USA TODAY Sports Network’s third Big Ten women’s basketball power rankings of the 2025-26 season. Records are reflective of games through Nov. 29. Previously: No. 1