Big 5 Conference Comparisons
I was just playing around with some info on school enrollment (grad and under grad) and stadium capacities for the Big 5 conferences with todays known current and future teams (of course, who knows what tomorrow will look like!). From an enrollment standpoint, there were not really any surprises - the ACC schools on average are much smaller then the other four conferences although the difference between the ACC and SEC / Big 12 was not as big as I expected. The ACC again had the smallest average stadium size but I was really surprised to see that there was not much difference between the ACC and the Big 12 / Pac 12. The last number listed for each school is the number of stadium seats per enrolled student. Not sure what this says except that there are a few schools with very large stadiums as compared to the size of the school - there were 5 schools with stadium capacities that were at least 4 times greater then the school enrollment and 4 of those 5 schools are in the ACC (if you count ND). The other thing (as has been pointed out in numerous other posts) is that the ACC has way more smallish private schools then any of the other conferences. Including ND, the ACC has six private schools compared to 2 for the Big 12 and one each for the BIG, SEC, and Pac 12.
SEC BIG
School Enroll Cap School Enroll Cap
Florida 49,589 88,548 1.8 Penn State 45,628 107,282 2.4
Alabama 31,647 101,000 3.2 Wisconsin 41,946 80,321 1.9
Kentucky 27,226 67,600 2.5 Iowa 29,810 70,585 2.4
Missouri 33,762 71,004 2.1 Illinois 44,407 69,249 1.6
Auburn 25,469 87,451 3.4 Indiana 42,731 52,692 1.2
Texas A&M 50,230 83,002 1.7 Nebraska 24,593 81,067 3.3
Tennessee 30,194 102,459 3.4 Michigan 42,716 109,901 2.6
Arkansas 23,199 72,000 3.1 Ohio State 56,867 102,329 1.8
Georgia 34,816 92,746 2.7 Purdue 40,849 62,500 1.5
Miss State 20,424 55,082 2.7 Northwest 20,959 49,256 2.4
LSU 29,718 92,400 3.1 Mich State 47,825 75,005 1.6
Vandy 12,836 39,790 3.1 Minnesota 52,557 50,805 1.0
Mississippi 18,224 60,850 3.3 Maryland 37,631 54,000 1.4
S Carolina 30,721 80,250 2.6 Rutgers 39,950 52,454 1.3
Average 29,861 78,156 2.6 Average 40,605 72,675 1.8
ACC Big 12
BC 14,754 44,500 3.0 TCU 9,518 50,000 5.3
Wake 7,351 31,500 4.3 K State 23,863 52,200 2.2
Ga Tech 20,941 55,000 2.6 OK State 24,390 60,218 2.5
Louisville 21,152 57,000 2.7 Baylor 15,029 50,000 3.3
NC State 34,767 57,583 1.7 TTU 32,327 61,000 1.9
FSU 41,087 84,300 2.1 Kansas 27,939 50,071 1.8
Miami 16,068 76,500 4.8 Oklahoma 27,138 82,112 3.0
UNC 29,137 60,000 2.1 WVU 29,617 60,180 2.0
Va Tech 30,936 66,233 2.1 Texas 51,112 100,119 2.0
Clemson 19,914 81,500 4.1 Iowa State 29,611 55,000 1.9
Virginia 24,297 61,500 2.5 Average 27,054 62,090 2.3
Duke 15,427 33,941 2.2
Syracuse 20,829 49,250 2.4
Pittsburgh 28,766 64,450 2.2
ND 12,002 80,795 6.7
Avg 22,495 60,270 2.7 With Out ND 23,245 58,804 2.5
Pac 12
Arizona 39,236 56,000 1.4
Oregon 24,396 54,000 2.2
Washington 42,444 72,500 1.7
Colorado 32,558 53,750 1.7
USC 38,010 92,000 2.4
Wash State 27,329 35,117 1.3
California 36,137 75,662 2.1
Oreg State 24,962 45,674 1.8
Utah 31,660 45,017 1.4
UCLA 39,271 91,136 2.3
Stanford 19,945 50,000 2.5
Ariz State 72,254 73,379 1.0
Average 35,684 62,020 1.7
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