![]() USC moved inland a bit by taking over UNLV, expanding into Nevada, Utah, and Arizona.This week, several teams were able to expand contiguous territory through consolidation. While some teams go crazy and just attack wherever they feel like ( cough, cough Hawaii), some teams try to expand outwards from their home base. Just shows anything can happen on the Empires Map. While not much land was exchanged, I think it is also important to note that somehow an army of one-pound turtles took a swatch from an army of 2,000-pound longhorns in the Maryland-Texas game.Michigan State sneaked out with a win over the Aggies of Utah State and took a large portion of the Northwest.Ole Miss survived its shoot-out with the Red Raiders and took a large plot of land in west Texas.Auburn conquered a large chunk of land in the Northwest, becoming the leader in land area by taking Alaska from the Huskies.Hawaii held off the naval attack of the Midshipmen and gained Navy’s land to add to Colorado State’s land and Hawaii’s original land.Washington State was able to conquer the beginnings of an empire by taking the land of both Wyoming and Wyoming’s victim, New Mexico State.Therefore, the map looked like this heading into Week 1: And here’s what it looks like after Week 1.ĭue to the land obtained by Hawaii and Wyoming in Week 0, their Week 1 games were worth slightly more land than the average opener. Hawaii and Wyoming, however, were able to take the land from Colorado State and New Mexico State respectively, because they had possession of land going into the game.The UMass and Rice games result in no land changes, because UMass and Rice beat teams that did not have land.25 featured UMass-Duquesne, Rice-Prairie View, Hawaii-Colorado State, and Wyoming-New Mexico State. To better explain how the Empires Map will change throughout the season, let’s start with Week 0’s results.Īug. Also, Cal does not own the county it’s located in (Stanford is slightly closer), and Michigan has counties that are not connected but are in the same territory. To remedy this, Puerto Rico has been added and given to Miami as a starting territory. The largest of these is that Miami isn’t closest to any county. The territories for each team are determined by which school is closest in straight-line distance to the geometric center of each county. Teams are then always in the process of trying to either regain land or expand their land by beating teams that have land. This map asks the question, “What if college football games were played for more than just wins and losses, but also for land?”Įach FBS team is given a territory to begin the season, and if they lose, the team that beats them takes their land. This season I have been given the opportunity to host this map on SB Nation, under the slight name change to the College Football Empires Map. Last season, I created the College Football Imperialism Map, which quickly became one of the most anticipated features on the CFB Subreddit every week. What is the College Football Empires Map? ![]()
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