College football, played as Risk

The Imperialism Map

3,142 counties24 empires89 battles2 raidsFinal · Dec 5
The 1913 CFB Imperialism map
Surveying the counties…

Every county starts with the nearest FBS stadium. Win, and you take everything the loser holds. Lose it all, and the only way back is beating somebody who still owns dirt. This is the 1913 season, played to its final whistle.

Final conquests

Week 11

Standings

The Empires

24 landholders · final

  1. 1Oklahoma1,847,716 mi² · 505 co
  2. 2Nebraska308,263 mi² · 379 co
  3. 3Notre Dame259,715 mi² · 371 co
  4. 4Auburn182,958 mi² · 302 co
  5. 5Chicago134,914 mi² · 293 co
  6. 6Georgetown121,457 mi² · 248 co
  7. 7LSU96,184 mi² · 122 co
  8. 8Missouri95,470 mi² · 98 co
  9. 9Michigan State93,417 mi² · 138 co
  10. 10Carlisle87,242 mi² · 107 co
  11. 11Army71,659 mi² · 148 co
  12. 12Southwestern U63,721 mi² · 43 co

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Articles of war

How the war works

I

The seeding

Before a down is played, every county in the fifty states is dealt to the FBS program with the nearest stadium, measured as the crow flies from the county's geographic center. Nobody starts landless in the FBS; nobody outside it starts with anything.

II

The conquest

When a game goes final, the winner takes everything the loser holds at that moment: home soil and every prior conquest alike. Games are replayed in kickoff order, so an empire can rise and fall inside a single Saturday.

III

The raid

A team with no land has nothing to lose, but it can beat any landholder and take the lot. That is how FCS, Division II and Division III programs raid their way onto the map, and land taken downward can stay there all season.

Ties, unfinished games and games without a score are ignored. Territories (Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands) are off the map. Neutral-site games overseas do not yet award foreign soil. A week appears in the timeline once its first game goes final. The current map is refreshed automatically every morning during the season. The 1913 campaign is complete. Stadium coordinates, colors and logos are today's; conference and division come from each season's own results. The full rules and methodology have the details.