Wake Forest holds 92 counties (68,456 mi²) on the 2026 college football imperialism map after Week 8, the No. 16 empire. Its largest empire was 460,390 mi² (408 counties) in 1965. It has held land in 119 seasons since 1908 and fought 261 battles for land.
Right now · 2026
68,456 mi²
92 counties · empire #16
Home soil
5,486 mi²
the counties nearest the stadium
Seasons with land
119
never finished #1
Battles for land
261
Recent campaigns
Season by season
- 2026seeded 5,486 mi² · peak 68,456 mi² (Week 6) · holds 68,456 mi² · #16 · 4–1 in land battles
- 2025seeded 5,486 mi² · peak 44,901 mi² (Week 11) · landless at the end · 2–2 in land battles
- 2024seeded 5,486 mi² · peak 53,918 mi² (Week 8) · landless at the end · 1–2 in land battles
- 2023seeded 5,486 mi² · peak 40,003 mi² (Week 3) · landless at the end · 3–2 in land battles
- 2022seeded 5,486 mi² · peak 59,321 mi² (Week 3) · landless at the end · 3–2 in land battles
- 2021seeded 5,486 mi² · peak 118,876 mi² (Week 5) · landless at the end · 2–1 in land battles
- 2020seeded 5,486 mi² · peak 5,486 mi² (Preseason) · landless at the end · 0–1 in land battles
- 2019seeded 5,486 mi² · peak 112,877 mi² (Week 3) · landless at the end · 2–1 in land battles
119 seasons on the map since 1908
Rivalries
Land exchanged
- NC State28 battles · took 416,881 mi² · lost 315,391 mi²
- North Carolina35 battles · took 228,497 mi² · lost 498,164 mi²
- Duke16 battles · took 263,035 mi² · lost 321,716 mi²
- Memphis2 battles · took 545,334 mi² · lost 0 mi²
Campaigns
Season by season
Opening the ledgers…