Week 2 College Football Imperialism Map
September 11th, 2017 at 11:38 AM ^
Weird, looking closer at this map I don't see the Buckeyes or Irish with any land. Must be a mistake.....
September 11th, 2017 at 9:05 PM ^
Well if they lose all their land, we aren't going to have much land to take when we beat them in November
September 11th, 2017 at 11:44 AM ^
September 11th, 2017 at 11:53 AM ^
Ugggh, did I really need to post "/s" there?
September 11th, 2017 at 12:46 PM ^
Apparently you did!
September 11th, 2017 at 1:03 PM ^
dot dot dot's served as a /s for me.
September 11th, 2017 at 11:54 AM ^
September 11th, 2017 at 11:46 AM ^
On the initial reddit post there's a pretty cool week to week GIF too:
September 11th, 2017 at 12:02 PM ^
Very annoying that the map is not aligned in the same place in subsequent frames. Sloppy work.
September 11th, 2017 at 12:06 PM ^
Yeah, that's why I didn't bother posting it (also, wasn't sure exactly how to do it).
But you're right, would be great if the reddit poster could figure out how to make the week to week transition subtly in the same screenshot.
September 11th, 2017 at 11:47 AM ^
your Air Force land are belong to us.
September 11th, 2017 at 11:47 AM ^
Nice big chunk of Rocky Mountain heartland up for grabs this weekend.
September 11th, 2017 at 12:16 PM ^
are weak. It's feeble. I think it is time to put the hurt on the Rocky Mountains.
September 11th, 2017 at 5:24 PM ^
September 11th, 2017 at 11:47 AM ^
throws the math way, way off since Alaska is by far the largest state. the UAF nanooks don't have a football team as far as i'm aware.
September 11th, 2017 at 11:49 AM ^
Closest college to Alaska is UW. Thems the rules.
September 11th, 2017 at 12:27 PM ^
can i get a second on that motion?
September 11th, 2017 at 12:59 PM ^
September 11th, 2017 at 2:13 PM ^
September 11th, 2017 at 2:27 PM ^
in the bering straits are visible to russia. but man, the bering sea can be a very scary place. no thank you in bad weather.
September 11th, 2017 at 11:50 AM ^
Is closest to the Husky campus. I think the logic was explained in the first post last week, but the map started with counties being assigned base don closeness to FBS campus. Washington gets Alaska by default.
September 11th, 2017 at 3:37 PM ^
I get why UW has Alaska, but Alaska shouldn't be worth as much in this game. Its land area should only be worth, like, 50% of its actual size. That should be the rule for any state that has no FBS teams.
September 11th, 2017 at 11:54 AM ^
It is definitely an interesting map (I must have missed week 1 - my bad), although if we think of it like Risk, what if Iowa, Wisconsin and Washington State form an unofficial alliance, take out UNLV, and then Iowa combines its territories to take on Minnesota, effectively cutting off both parts of Wisconsin's territory. That's how you win the BIg Ten West, right?
September 11th, 2017 at 12:10 PM ^
My favorite part about posting this last week was when someone revealed that their "cool uncle" actually connected dotted lines from Australia to South Africa to lessen the stranglehold that is the Australian territories. That blew my mind!
September 11th, 2017 at 12:06 PM ^
It looks like that week 4 matchup of Minnesota vs. Maryland will have some serious nationwide stakes in the imperialistic scenario.
EDIT: In real life, not nearly as much.
September 11th, 2017 at 2:31 PM ^
I, for one, welcome our new Gopher overlords.
Until we steal their lunch money and give them a wedgie in a couple of months, of course.
September 11th, 2017 at 12:06 PM ^
And Florida actually had Washtenaw county at the end of last season by virture of beating Iowa. Glad we reclaimed our land right off the bat.
September 11th, 2017 at 12:06 PM ^
Wouldn't it be nice to own Minnesota's big chunk of land and see a big maize block M owning the north? Looking at both Minn and Michigan's schedules, though, this would only happen if both Minn and Michigan win out and Michigan wins that contest. All of Minnesota's opponents prior to the game against us would not allow us to take this land until we actually play Minnestoa. Interesting.
September 11th, 2017 at 2:09 PM ^
Minnesota could beat every team leading up to us. I would say Iowa is most likely to steal their land away the weak before we play them and we don't play Iowa. Iowa plays Wisconsin and OSU after that game and before we play either of them, so we could get that Minnesota land by beating one of those two (or Iowa in the B1G championship game if Iowa beats both of them).
September 11th, 2017 at 12:13 PM ^
being split between CMU, Wisconsin and Minnesota. It is like the Yooper version of "Da Game of Trones, eh"...
September 11th, 2017 at 12:15 PM ^
the portion of Southeast Michigan (including Wayne, Oakland and Macomb) that Eastern Michigan currently holds has a good chance of ending the regular season in SEC and ACC hands.
Eastern Michigan next hosts Ohio at home. Assuming EMU wins that, they then play at Kentucky. That's probably a loss - the SEC would then likely swap that land around for October and November (potentially losing it in the last week, when there are a bunch of ACC/SEC games).
September 11th, 2017 at 12:55 PM ^
It looks like they have Northwestern owning the Rutgers land and Eastern Michigan somewhere down in the Carolinas. Also, I don't see the land for Air Force's 63-0 win over VMI.
September 11th, 2017 at 1:33 PM ^
Washington owns Rutgers land. VMI is not FBS, so they never had any land.
September 11th, 2017 at 12:16 PM ^
This is a really interesting concept and something I'll enjoy following for the fun of it, but the whole "closest campus" thing kind of starts it in a weird spot to start from. It'd be better if beating a team with more power/gravitas/etc. carried more than just the closest stadium or whoever else they beat.
Wyoming had a ton of land because its in the middle of nowhere. Cool. But now because they lost week 1 from the purely visual perspective you glance at the map and Iowa and Minnesota (because there aren't many other close FBS schools) appear so dominant despite the fact that they've beat Wyoming/Iowa State (barely) and Buffalo/Oregon State, respectively. I get it will change, it's just the location thing makes it deceptive when visualizing.
Anyway, it's for fun, so cool concept, even if I'll nitpick the execution.
September 11th, 2017 at 12:20 PM ^
empty land is worth more than anything else.
September 11th, 2017 at 5:20 PM ^
Also like the electoral college in that a giant amount of land is sparsely populated, making the visuals bizarre when not weighted.
September 11th, 2017 at 12:31 PM ^
The Michigan map is beyond stupid.
Michigan has 2 or 3 tiny squares and Central has like 5000.
September 11th, 2017 at 12:56 PM ^
September 11th, 2017 at 12:45 PM ^
Seems like a pretty good reflection of how CFB works. Lose early and you're okay especially if you have few impressive late season wins.
September 11th, 2017 at 4:27 PM ^
Not sure this is true. Just looking at this quickly, it seems the most important thing is for your conference to win their non-conference games, especially with most nonconference games stacked in the first weeks of the season. Losing within the conference early can be made up because of a lot of round robin play. But if you lose territory in the non-conference season, that territory will most likely stay out of reach until the playoff or possibly never.
If Minnesota were to lose to MTSU this weekend, Minnesota's territory would most likely remain within Conference USA until bowl season. If Illinois were to lose to USF this week, their territory would most likely remain in the AAC until bowl season. A Wisconsin loss to BYU would have a similar effect as BYU's schedule would not overlap with the Big Ten. Big Ten fans should be rooting for Minnesota, Illinois, and Wisconsin to win those games, and for Maryland to win next week against UCF to keep their territory within the Big Ten.
September 11th, 2017 at 12:59 PM ^
September 11th, 2017 at 1:04 PM ^
September 11th, 2017 at 1:09 PM ^
So CU "owns" Corvallis and Oregon State's land.
It does get a bit confusing to track, especially as we layer on weeks of the season.
September 11th, 2017 at 2:54 PM ^
September 11th, 2017 at 9:12 PM ^
I have no idea what I'm looking at right now.
September 11th, 2017 at 11:47 PM ^
So, if Florida beats Tennessee, does Tenn's territory go to us or to Florida?