Texas holds 262 counties (172,539 mi²) on the 2026 college football imperialism map after Week 8, the No. 8 empire. Its largest empire was 1,452,654 mi² (744 counties) in 1955. It has held land in 126 seasons since 1901 and fought 505 battles for land, and finished 5 seasons as the largest empire.
Right now · 2026
172,539 mi²
262 counties · empire #8
Home soil
10,843 mi²
the counties nearest the stadium
Seasons with land
126
finished #1 5 times
Battles for land
505
Recent campaigns
Season by season
- 2026seeded 10,843 mi² · peak 172,539 mi² (Week 8) · holds 172,539 mi² · #8 · 5–1 in land battles
- 2025seeded 10,843 mi² · peak 184,571 mi² (Week 14) · finished 184,571 mi² · #6 · 2–2 in land battles
- 2024seeded 10,843 mi² · peak 246,709 mi² (Bowls 1) · landless at the end · 5–3 in land battles
- 2023seeded 10,843 mi² · peak 593,232 mi² (Week 13) · landless at the end · 5–2 in land battles
- 2022seeded 10,843 mi² · peak 28,182 mi² (Week 1) · landless at the end · 1–1 in land battles
- 2021seeded 10,843 mi² · peak 102,215 mi² (Week 4) · landless at the end · 2–2 in land battles
- 2020seeded 10,843 mi² · peak 232,807 mi² (Week 10) · landless at the end · 4–2 in land battles
- 2019seeded 10,843 mi² · peak 167,367 mi² (Week 11) · landless at the end · 4–3 in land battles
126 seasons on the map since 1901
Rivalries
Land exchanged
- Oklahoma60 battles · took 3,235,311 mi² · lost 4,987,785 mi²
- Texas A&M23 battles · took 4,358,107 mi² · lost 1,910,164 mi²
- Texas Tech33 battles · took 3,474,778 mi² · lost 964,384 mi²
- Arkansas35 battles · took 2,613,716 mi² · lost 1,258,227 mi²
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Opening the ledgers…