re: Thanks to SEC and Heisman - A&M receives record 37,000 applications

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The Air Force Academy has 18,500 acres.

U.S. Military Academy -- 16,000 acres.

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Yeah. They are military facilities...

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Penn State has 8,500 acres.

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Meh. University Park is only 1.51 square miles, which is under 1000 acres. If you include the 18 other campuses Penn State has, that is how you reach that 8,500 figure.

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Stanford has more than 8,000 acres.

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Stanford is interesting case. They make a huge deal about being in Stanford, CA, not Palo Alto. Stanford, CA is under 2,000 acres. Part of the 8,000 acres they claim is land they own, but they don't own or operate any of the buildings and let them exist as a part of Palo Alto. At some point they got in financial trouble and wanted to sell land they couldn't technically sell, so you are stuck with the situation where Stanford's campus, isn't really a campus. At least a mall held by Simon Property Group where a Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom sell clothes, but don't hold classes counts as part of "campus". As well as part of that 2,000 some odd acres being the Stanford Industrial Park. Most people wouldn't need a Hewlett Packard employee badge in order to gain access 2.000 acres of your campus.

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Duke U. has 8,000 acres.

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Duke is considered to have a West Campus(720 acres), an east campus(97 acres), a central campus(122 acres), and a medical center(210 acres). The rest of it is Duke Forest, which isn't touchable for campus purposes.

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The University of California-Davis has 7,300 acres (I'm not sure this is contiguous, though).

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It is essentially contiguous.

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There may be others... but nonetheless, A&M does not have the largest campus in the country at 5,200 acres, it is at best just outside the top 10.

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For a flagship, continguous campus that can actually be used for practical college purposes, it is definitely top 10. Pure acreage isn't the only metric we should use, and if you weren't a biased sip, you would realize that while A&M's claim that it is one of the largest campuses in the country might not be completely accurate from a google earth satellite... it truly is one of the largest campuses in the country.