ncbears said:

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According to this, top 10 schools for number of applicants. https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/most-applied-to-colleges/
10. Michigan 87k
9. Davis 94.5k
8. Northeastern 96k
7. Santa Barbara 111k
6. NYU 120k
5. Long Beach 120k
4. Irvine 121k
3. Cal 126k
2. UC San Diego 131k (but a 25% acceptance rate)
1. UCLA 146k

Only 3 schools have football. (Does Long Beach State still have football?)

Note: the list seems very deficient with regard to some large public schools, e.g. Illinois, Ohio State, Washington, San Diego State
So I do not vouch for its accuracy.

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I think it's true and does represent as others have said the scale and popularity of Southern California.

Long Beach State has become the "go- to" CSU in a cool place

NYU a historically mediocre and expensive school is now a destination - urban New York

Northeastern historically a working class Boston commuter school has also taken a jump- destination and their excellent coop program

ncbears said:

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According to this, top 10 schools for number of applicants. https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/most-applied-to-colleges/
10. Michigan 87k
9. Davis 94.5k
8. Northeastern 96k
7. Santa Barbara 111k
6. NYU 120k
5. Long Beach 120k
4. Irvine 121k
3. Cal 126k
2. UC San Diego 131k (but a 25% acceptance rate)
1. UCLA 146k

Only 3 schools have football. (Does Long Beach State still have football?)

Note: the list seems very deficient with regard to some large public schools, e.g. Illinois, Ohio State, Washington, San Diego State
So I do not vouch for its accuracy.

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I wonder if Northeastern's number will get a bump since they acquired the Mills campus? Nice job of missing the boat on that one, Cal.

EDIT - Also, it's unclear which schools are included in this survey. Cal Poly SLO had ~75K applicants which would rank them #14 on this list.

ncbears said:

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According to this, top 10 schools for number of applicants. https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/most-applied-to-colleges/
10. Michigan 87k
9. Davis 94.5k
8. Northeastern 96k
7. Santa Barbara 111k
6. NYU 120k
5. Long Beach 120k
4. Irvine 121k
3. Cal 126k
2. UC San Diego 131k (but a 25% acceptance rate)
1. UCLA 146k

Only 3 schools have football. (Does Long Beach State still have football?)

Note: the list seems very deficient with regard to some large public schools, e.g. Illinois, Ohio State, Washington, San Diego State
So I do not vouch for its accuracy.

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SDSU had 82k freshman applications for fall 2023.

LBSU had 89k freshman applications for the same term.

The large public schools you are wondering about have nowhere near the top10 applications. According to US News, all of them have acceptance rates in the 45-53% range. I didn't dig for number of applications, but this would seem to put them in the 20-30k range.