If you are a network executive and/or athletic conference executive, this is what you likely are most interested in if I had to guess. It likely helps to keep this is mind when you are considering conference realignment moves rather than just quality of a football program. Notice the demographic footprint if the B1G were to get Florida, GA, SC, NC, and VA in their footprint. Notice where that would leave the SEC.
Rank | Name | Projected 2020 to 2040 pop. change (%) | 2020 population | 2020 rank | 2040 projected population | 2040 rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Texas | 35.2 | 29,604,099 | 2 | 40,015,913 | 2 |
2 | North Dakota | 34.3 | 789,403 | 47 | 1,060,457 | 45 |
3 | Utah | 34.1 | 3,240,569 | 30 | 4,344,339 | 29 |
4 | Florida | 32.0 | 21,877,257 | 3 | 28,886,983 | 3 |
5 | Colorado | 31.7 | 5,843,359 | 20 | 7,692,907 | 17 |
6 | Nevada | 30.1 | 3,119,265 | 32 | 4,058,371 | 30 |
7 | Washington | 27.3 | 7,681,818 | 13 | 9,776,126 | 12 |
8 | Arizona | 26.1 | 7,268,694 | 14 | 9,166,279 | 14 |
9 | Idaho | 25.4 | 1,777,249 | 39 | 2,227,842 | 36 |
10 | South Carolina | 22.5 | 5,184,564 | 23 | 6,352,502 | 22 |
11 | Oregon | 21.0 | 4,267,534 | 27 | 5,164,041 | 24 |
12 | North Carolina | 19.8 | 10,568,033 | 9 | 12,658,927 | 7 |
13 | Georgia | 19.5 | 10,725,351 | 8 | 12,820,271 | 5 |
14 | Delaware | 17.9 | 987,393 | 45 | 1,164,344 | 44 |
15 | South Dakota | 17.0 | 891,688 | 46 | 1,043,032 | 47 |
16 | Montana | 15.0 | 1,074,635 | 43 | 1,236,304 | 43 |
17 | California | 14.9 | 40,438,640 | 1 | 46,467,001 | 1 |
18 | Virginia | 14.1 | 8,655,021 | 12 | 9,876,728 | 11 |
19 | Tennessee | 14.0 | 6,861,856 | 16 | 7,823,662 | 15 |
20 | Minnesota | 12.0 | 5,683,666 | 22 | 6,364,886 | 20 |
21 | Nebraska | 12.0 | 1,956,876 | 37 | 2,190,918 | 37 |
22 | Hawaii | 11.4 | 1,453,902 | 40 | 1,619,703 | 40 |
23 | Maryland | 11.1 | 6,161,345 | 19 | 6,842,902 | 19 |
24 | Oklahoma | 10.9 | 4,001,180 | 28 | 4,439,038 | 28 |
25 | Massachusetts | 10.9 | 6,982,092 | 15 | 7,742,628 | 16 |
26 | Alaska | 9.1 | 751,328 | 48 | 819,954 | 48 |
27 | Louisiana | 6.7 | 4,742,900 | 25 | 5,062,780 | 25 |
28 | Iowa | 6.5 | 3,184,240 | 31 | 3,392,783 | 32 |
29 | Arkansas | 5.9 | 3,038,491 | 33 | 3,217,535 | 33 |
30 | Indiana | 5.3 | 6,737,581 | 17 | 7,095,000 | 18 |
31 | Wyoming | 5.2 | 585,380 | 50 | 615,787 | 49 |
32 | Kentucky | 4.8 | 4,498,533 | 26 | 4,714,761 | 27 |
33 | New York | 4.2 | 20,031,150 | 4 | 20,873,488 | 4 |
34 | New Jersey | 4.2 | 9,088,074 | 11 | 9,470,012 | 13 |
35 | Kansas | 3.3 | 2,936,212 | 35 | 3,032,653 | 34 |
36 | Missouri | 3.2 | 6,161,471 | 18 | 6,359,970 | 21 |
37 | New Hampshire | 3.0 | 1,352,917 | 41 | 1,393,451 | 41 |
38 | Alabama | 3.0 | 4,911,278 | 24 | 5,056,796 | 26 |
39 | Wisconsin | 2.7 | 5,837,176 | 21 | 5,997,137 | 23 |
40 | New Mexico | 1.3 | 2,099,134 | 36 | 2,127,318 | 38 |
41 | Ohio | 0.4 | 11,705,262 | 7 | 11,751,540 | 9 |
42 | Pennsylvania | -0.3 | 12,844,885 | 5 | 12,809,150 | 6 |
43 | Michigan | -0.3 | 9,992,315 | 10 | 9,960,115 | 10 |
44 | Rhode Island | -0.7 | 1,062,334 | 44 | 1,055,318 | 46 |
45 | Maine | -0.9 | 1,338,780 | 42 | 1,326,159 | 42 |
46 | Mississippi | -0.9 | 2,990,498 | 34 | 2,962,160 | 35 |
47 | Connecticut | -1.4 | 3,593,542 | 29 | 3,542,707 | 31 |
48 | Illinois | -3.1 | 12,791,188 | 6 | 12,397,564 | 8 |
49 | Vermont | -3.4 | 622,868 | 49 | 601,865 | 50 |
