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Based on data from Wikipedia, the 16 future Big 12 schools have a collective enrollment (582,613) larger than the population of Wyoming (576,851 as of the 2020 census or 581,381 as of the 2022 estimate).
The Wikipedia enrollment totals appear to be from a mixed bag of years, but here’s what totals are provided:
| School | Enrollment | Reference Year |
|---|---|---|
| Baylor | 20,626 | 2016 |
| BYU | 34,390 | 2022 |
| UCF | 71,948 | 2021 |
| Cincinnati | 47,914 | 2018 |
| Houston | 47,090 | 2020 |
| Iowa State | 30,708 | 2020 |
| Kansas | 27,685 | 2021 |
| Kansas State | 19,722 | 2021 |
| Oklahoma State | 24,660 | 2021 |
| TCU | 11,938 | 2021 |
| Texas Tech | 40,666 | 2021 |
| West Virginia | 25,474 | 2019 |
| Arizona | 51,134 | Unknown |
| Arizona State | 57,588 | Unknown |
| Colorado | 36,170 | Unknown |
| Utah | 34,900 | Unknown |
Some of these totals don’t include satellite campuses, rightly or wrongly. Arizona State only includes Tempe. West Virginia only includes Morgantown.
I don’t doubt the future SEC, Big Ten, or ACC will have a larger collective enrollment than the Big 12, but none of them lost to Wyoming this weekend. Maybe one of them can lose to the University of North Dakota (2022 population estimate = 779,261) or the University of South Dakota (2022 estimate = 909,824)? or convince the University of Vermont (2022 estimate = 647,064) to bring back football?