Michigan holds no land on the 2026 college football imperialism map after Week 8. Its largest empire was 3,248,924 mi² (2,544 counties) in 1881. It has held land in 140 seasons since 1881 and fought 502 battles for land, and finished 6 seasons as the largest empire.
Right now · 2026
Landless
nothing seeded this season
Home soil
1,912 mi²
the counties nearest the stadium
Seasons with land
140
finished #1 6 times
Battles for land
502
Recent campaigns
Season by season
- 2026seeded 1,912 mi² · peak 65,544 mi² (Week 2) · landless at the end · 2–1 in land battles
- 2025seeded 1,912 mi² · peak 90,583 mi² (Week 1) · landless at the end · 3–3 in land battles
- 2024seeded 1,912 mi² · peak 280,023 mi² (Week 14) · finished 280,023 mi² · #3 · 5–3 in land battles
- 2023seeded 1,912 mi² · peak 2,223,531 mi² (Bowls 1) · finished 2,223,531 mi² · #1 · 7–0 in land battles
- 2022seeded 1,912 mi² · peak 278,078 mi² (Week 14) · landless at the end · 6–1 in land battles
- 2021seeded 1,912 mi² · peak 92,743 mi² (Week 13) · landless at the end · 3–2 in land battles
- 2020seeded 1,912 mi² · peak 182,624 mi² (Week 8) · landless at the end · 1–1 in land battles
- 2019seeded 1,912 mi² · peak 93,273 mi² (Week 6) · landless at the end · 4–3 in land battles
140 seasons on the map since 1881
Rivalries
Land exchanged
- Cornell7 battles · took 13,178 mi² · lost 9,149,744 mi²
- Ohio State45 battles · took 4,557,559 mi² · lost 3,570,997 mi²
- Minnesota28 battles · took 4,920,828 mi² · lost 925,661 mi²
- Washington12 battles · took 4,615,930 mi² · lost 968,464 mi²
The almanac
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Opening the ledgers…