Notre Dame holds no land on the 2026 college football imperialism map after Week 8. Its largest empire was 1,558,959 mi² (557 counties) in 1952. It has held land in 131 seasons since 1893 and fought 480 battles for land, and finished 4 seasons as the largest empire.
Right now · 2026
Landless
nothing seeded this season
Home soil
6,224 mi²
the counties nearest the stadium
Seasons with land
131
finished #1 4 times
Battles for land
480
Recent campaigns
Season by season
- 2026seeded 6,224 mi² · peak 60,454 mi² (Week 3) · landless at the end · 3–1 in land battles
- 2025seeded 6,224 mi² · peak 214,840 mi² (Week 14) · finished 214,840 mi² · #4 · 2–1 in land battles
- 2024seeded 6,224 mi² · peak 1,227,602 mi² (Bowls 1) · landless at the end · 8–2 in land battles
- 2023seeded 6,224 mi² · peak 89,982 mi² (Week 7) · landless at the end · 4–3 in land battles
- 2022seeded 6,224 mi² · peak 289,804 mi² (Week 10) · finished 34,666 mi² · #12 · 5–3 in land battles
- 2021seeded 6,224 mi² · peak 55,087 mi² (Week 4) · landless at the end · 4–1 in land battles
- 2020seeded 6,224 mi² · peak 85,589 mi² (Week 10) · landless at the end · 3–1 in land battles
- 2019seeded 6,224 mi² · peak 103,423 mi² (Week 3) · landless at the end · 3–2 in land battles
131 seasons on the map since 1893
Rivalries
Land exchanged
- USC34 battles · took 5,615,164 mi² · lost 3,913,667 mi²
- Michigan State31 battles · took 2,503,795 mi² · lost 1,666,482 mi²
- Texas11 battles · took 1,764,364 mi² · lost 675,771 mi²
- Penn State8 battles · took 1,022,895 mi² · lost 890,918 mi²
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Opening the ledgers…