Every county starts with the nearest D-III stadium. Win, and you take everything the loser holds. Lose it all, and the only way back is beating somebody who still owns dirt. Wins by teams from a higher division move nothing on this map; raids from below still count.
Latest conquests
Battles ahead
Standings
47 landholders · through Oct 24
The standings
After Week 8 of the 2026 season (games through October 24), Lewis & Clark holds the largest empire on the D-III imperialism map: 749,645 mi² across 88 counties, and it kept the crown that week. Linfield is second with 548,759 mi² (163 counties), then Texas Lutheran (411,564 mi²) and Saint John's (MN) (347,208 mi²). Week 8 moved 583 counties (378,353 mi²) in 10 battles and 50 empires became 47. Next, Lewis & Clark puts the crown on the line against Linfield on Saturday, October 31.
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Articles of war
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.
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.
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 this map, wins by teams from a higher division move nothing; raids from lower divisions still count. 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 October 24. 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.