For almost 20 years, school soccer’s stability of energy went a method: south. From 2006 via 2022, the SEC collected 13 nationwide championships, a run fueled by Nick Saban’s Alabama machine. The league appeared untouchable. Now, the Huge Ten has carried out one thing it hadn’t carried out since Franklin D. Roosevelt was president and the world was at struggle: win three consecutive nationwide championships.
Michigan in 2023. Ohio State in 2024. And now Indiana in 2025 with its first nationwide title, ever, after holding on to defeat Miami within the Faculty Soccer Playoff Nationwide Championship on Monday night time.
Learn that once more.
The final time the Huge Ten pulled off a three-peat, school soccer appeared very completely different. Minnesota received in 1940 and 1941, Ohio State adopted in 1942 and World Struggle II was raging as gamers left for army service.
Eighty-three years later, the Huge Ten has returned to that uncommon degree — and in arguably the hardest period of the game.
Michigan cracked the door two seasons in the past earlier than Ohio State kicked it down, operating via the primary 12-team Faculty Soccer Playoff. After which got here Indiana, a program with zero nationwide championships to its identify, crashing school soccer’s most unique membership with an undefeated 2025 run that can go down as one of the vital dominant seasons of the twenty first century.
Three-peats (or longer) by main conferences
Huge Ten
- 5 straight — Michigan (1901), Michigan (1902), Michigan (1903), Michigan (1904), Chicago (1905)
- 4 straight — Michigan (1933), Minnesota (1934), Minnesota (1935), Minnesota (1936)
- 3 straight — Minnesota (1940), Minnesota (1941), Ohio State (1942)
- 3 straight — Michigan (2023), Ohio State (2024), Indiana (2025)
SEC
- 7 straight — Florida (2006), LSU (2007), Florida (2008), Alabama (2009), Auburn (2010), Alabama (2011), Alabama (2012)
- 4 straight — LSU (2019), Alabama (2020), Georgia (2021), Georgia (2022)
- 3 straight — Alabama (1978), Alabama (1979), Georgia (1980)
Pac-12
- 3 straight — California (1920), California (1921), California (1922)
Fast context: These are all NCAA-recognized nationwide championships — together with any later vacated — and the conferences listed are what every staff belonged to on the time of its title.
This present streak for the Huge Ten additional cements its place in historical past. The convention provides to its complete, making it the league with probably the most nationwide championships in school soccer, with 33 throughout eight packages.
Most nationwide championships by convention in school soccer
Huge Ten | 33 | Michigan (10), Ohio State (9), Minnesota (6), Illinois (3), Michigan State (2), Chicago (1), Indiana (1), Iowa (1) |
SEC | 28 | Alabama (13), LSU (4), Florida (3), Georgia (3), Auburn (2), Tennessee (2), Ole Miss (1) |
| Pac-12 | 15 | USC (9), California (3), Stanford (1), UCLA (1), Washington (1) |
Huge 12/Huge Eight | 14 | |
ACC | 8 | Clemson (3), Florida State (3), Georgia Tech (1), Maryland (1) |
| Southwest | 7 | Texas (3), Arkansas (1), SMU (1), TCU (1), Texas A&M (1) |
For the primary time in a technology, school soccer’s middle of gravity has shifted north — and the Huge Ten has owned it.
