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The Carousel Imperialism Map

3,142 counties31 empires19 battles0 raidsThrough Sep 12
The 2026 CFB Imperialism map
Surveying the counties…

The FBS map without the preseason reset. Since 2014 every season opens with the borders the last one ended with, and land stays with the program when its coach leaves. The one reset is tied to coaching: a program that opens a season landless gets its home counties back if it hired a new head coach. How the reset works › Replay 2014 to today ›

Latest conquests

Week 2

Battles ahead

Standings

The Empires

31 landholders · through Sep 12

  1. 1Indiana1,534,951 mi² · 950 co
  2. 2Notre Dame1,109,955 mi² · 1,296 co
  3. 3Washington219,990 mi² · 65 co
  4. 4North Dakota State164,096 mi² · 124 co
  5. 5Texas93,699 mi² · 37 co
  6. 6Utah64,961 mi² · 96 co
  7. 7Kansas State38,129 mi² · 46 co
  8. 8UTSA37,917 mi² · 69 co
  9. 9Colorado State29,923 mi² · 23 co
  10. 10Tulsa28,369 mi² · 30 co
  11. 11San José State28,339 mi² · 17 co
  12. 12Iowa24,146 mi² · 38 co

‹ 2025 seasonAll-time records ›

How the carousel resets

Borders carry over. New coaches can start fresh.

I

No preseason reset

On the FBS map every county goes back to its nearest stadium each August. Here 2026 opens with the exact borders 2025 ended with, so empires survive the offseason.

II

Land stays with the program

When a head coach leaves, retires or is fired, his successor inherits whatever the program holds, big empire or nothing. A mid-season firing moves nothing either: the interim takes over the same land.

III

The coaching reset

A program that opens a season with no land gets its home counties back if it hired a new head coach, or if it just moved up to FBS. Those counties are taken from whoever held them. A landless program that keeps its coach stays landless until it wins its way back.

During the season the rules are the FBS map's: win and take everything the loser holds. Compare the 2026 FBS map › Replay every season from 2014 ›

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.

On the carousel map, land carries over from season to season since 2014 and stays with the program when a coach leaves; a program that opens a season landless gets its home counties back if it hired a new head coach. 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 2026 campaign currently runs through September 12. 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.