2014 Big Ten football standings
	Conf				Overall
Team		W		L		W		L
East Division
#1 Ohio State x$#^		8	–	0		14	–	1
#5T Michigan State		7	–	1		11	–	2
Maryland		4	–	4		7	–	6
Rutgers		3	–	5		8	–	5
Michigan		3	–	5		5	–	7
Penn State		2	–	6		7	–	6
Indiana		1	–	7		4	–	8
West Division
#13 Wisconsin x		7	–	1		11	–	3
Minnesota		5	–	3		8	–	5
Nebraska		5	–	3		9	–	4
Iowa		4	–	4		7	–	6
Illinois		3	–	5		6	–	7
Northwestern		3	–	5		5	–	7
Purdue		1	–	7		3	–	9
Championship: Ohio State 59, Wisconsin 0
# – College Football Playoff champion ^ – College Football Playoff participant $ – Conference champion x – Division champion/co-champions As of January 13, 2015; Rankings from AP Poll

The 2014 Big Ten Football Championship Game was a college football game played on December 6, 2014 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. It was the fourth annual Big Ten Football Championship Game and it determined the 2014 champion of the Big Ten Conference. The game featured the Ohio State Buckeyes, champions of the East Division, and the West Division champion Wisconsin Badgers.Wisconsin was favored by 4.5 points over Ohio State, but Ohio State won by a score of 59–0, making the game the largest point spread upset by margin of victory in college football history.

The 2014 Championship Game was the fourth held in the Big Ten's 119-year history, and the first to feature the conference's new division alignment of East and West. The first three games, in 2011, 2012, and 2013, were played under the previous division alignment of Legends and Leaders.

Multiple members of both teams' coaching staff have worked together in the past. In 2004 Gary Andersen, current-Badgers head coach, was the defensive line coach under Urban Meyer, then head coach of the Utah Utes. Together Utah finished the 2004 season 11-0. After that season Meyer became head coach for the Florida Gators and Gary Andersen became defensive coordinator for the Utes. Ohio State's co-offensive coordinator Tom Herman and Wisconsin's defensive coordinator Dave Aranda both attended college together, at California Lutheran University, and were roommates for a semester.

Ohio State came into the Big Ten Championship Game ranked #6 in the AP Poll. With their starting quarterback, redshirt freshman J.T. Barrett, out for the rest of the season after suffering a fractured ankle against Michigan the previous week, redshirt sophomore Cardale Jones would receive the first start of his career. The Buckeyes defense was led by Joey Bosa who was the 2014 Big Ten defensive player of the year.

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