College football, played as Risk

The Imperialism Map

3,142 counties30 empires127 battles6 raidsFinal · Dec 31
The 1922 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 1922 season, played to its final whistle.

Final conquests

Week 11

Standings

The Empires

30 landholders · final

  1. 1California1,116,409 mi² · 218 co
  2. 2Colorado State587,844 mi² · 247 co
  3. 3Chicago244,673 mi² · 288 co
  4. 4Syracuse168,433 mi² · 229 co
  5. 5Vanderbilt159,885 mi² · 177 co
  6. 6Princeton151,354 mi² · 320 co
  7. 7Nebraska149,459 mi² · 246 co
  8. 8USC147,786 mi² · 55 co
  9. 9Georgia Tech101,892 mi² · 204 co
  10. 10Boston College100,729 mi² · 127 co
  11. 11North Carolina90,699 mi² · 149 co
  12. 12Army82,487 mi² · 160 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 1922 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.