Final Football Imperialism Map
For a while, people were following the Football Imperialism Map. I'm not sure what happened to that regular post, but I thought the final map was, uh, interesting. As one poster on /r/cfb on reddit pointed out, more than a few people in Michigan live in territory occupied by Appalachian State, while much of the country is occupied by OSU. It seems that we are living in dark times.
and a link to more good stuff on the original reddit page: Final Imperialism Map
January 9th, 2018 at 2:57 PM ^
They also are the current holders of the "College Football Belt" - which is tangentally similiar to CFB imperalism. The Belt is - if you start back at the first college football game and move forward from there like the Heavyweight Boxing Championship, Pitt holds "the Belt" on 9-Jan-2018.
January 9th, 2018 at 4:22 PM ^
So the next team to beat Pitt takes the belt and so on?
The map doesn't look like it matches the stats in the reddit post.
I wonder where we can see maps of former seasons
January 9th, 2018 at 6:03 PM ^
Pittsburgh has lost to an FCS team once before (Youngstown State, 2012).
Unlike that YSU team, Albany is a below-average FCS team. So doubt it happens, but it would be bizarre for the Belt to drop to the FCS level.
If Pitt beats Albany, they play PSU next, so the Belt could get in B1G hands. It would be the first time The Belt has been held by a B1G team since Ohio State prior to the 2007 National Title game. Michigan last had it in 2003 (see the link below for the complete lineage).
http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/Pitt/2018/01/05/pitt-football-colleg…
January 9th, 2018 at 2:50 PM ^
Northwestern "owns" Michigan and Florida? Dumb.
January 9th, 2018 at 2:56 PM ^
Did you miss this the first several times the imperialism map was posted to the board, or just being repetitive for repetition's sake?
January 9th, 2018 at 2:52 PM ^
Ann Arbor claimed by Northwestern. There isn't a logical way to make that work.
January 9th, 2018 at 2:58 PM ^
They beat Michigan State, Michigan State beat Michigan?
Only thing I can come up with, but what about all of the other teams that beat MSU? OSU also won in AA, so map is whack. Still a neat concept though
January 9th, 2018 at 3:00 PM ^
Florida State (7-6) is granted 46 counties in this map and Michigan (8-5), none.
January 9th, 2018 at 3:01 PM ^
They beat Michigan State and then won out from there. Michigan State beat us.
January 9th, 2018 at 5:41 PM ^
MSU beats Michigan, lays claim to Michigan’s territory. Northwestern beats MSU, lays claim to all of MSU’s territory, which includes the territory they took from Michigan. Hence, NW owns Washtenaw.
January 9th, 2018 at 2:52 PM ^
was the pottery
January 9th, 2018 at 2:53 PM ^
Can someone explain wtf the imperialism map even means?
January 9th, 2018 at 2:54 PM ^
I clicked the link and answered for myself. I don't need no social safety net. *fires shotgun*
January 9th, 2018 at 3:00 PM ^
Barf
January 9th, 2018 at 3:05 PM ^
I think I understand how the map works and I'm still confused.
January 9th, 2018 at 3:15 PM ^
1) You take every county in the country and assign it as owned by the closest FBS school. So for example, Washtenau County would be owned by Michigan
2) In week two, every team that wins takes over all the counties owned by the team they beat
3) Repeat this for every step of the season
So for Washtenau County,
Michigan's first loss was to MSU on October 7
MSU won on October 14 and October 21 and held it
On October 28, Northwestern beat MSU and took it
Northwestern won out from there so they held it at the end of the year
January 9th, 2018 at 3:29 PM ^
Washtenaw.
January 9th, 2018 at 3:31 PM ^
It's been a while since I lived there
January 9th, 2018 at 4:33 PM ^
Is not single u, is double u
January 9th, 2018 at 3:07 PM ^
wow...... its a long way from spring camp, content is lacking.
January 9th, 2018 at 3:07 PM ^
must be super-duper OSU fans. Hell over half the country is OSU and there is no Michigan on the map, even in Ann Arbor.
January 9th, 2018 at 3:33 PM ^
I don’t think you get how it works
January 9th, 2018 at 3:18 PM ^
Damnit, Appalachian State owns Wayne County, Michigan.
....and now I will probably have to relive a vague and ill-defined event that my conscious memory - as it is right now - cannot coherently recall (just glimpses, flashes of light, nothing which makes any sense) if they have their way with us.
January 9th, 2018 at 3:26 PM ^
They beat Toledo in their bowl game. I didn't map it back but somehow it's going to be a chain back to Eastern Michigan
January 9th, 2018 at 3:34 PM ^
Interesting idea.
January 9th, 2018 at 3:35 PM ^
This isn’t a hard concept. You start out owning pieces on the map (in this case, counties). Then, as you progress through the season, you win or lose territory. So as an example, when Michigan beat Florida, they owned counties in Florida (where Gainesville is). It goes through the whole season. When you lose, you lose whatever territory you won as well.
January 9th, 2018 at 3:48 PM ^
It makes me laugh how every time this is posted, at least half the people have no idea how it works.
Interesting observations: the only schools holding their home territory or close to it are UCF, Bama, and I think Appalchaian State (I don't know where exactly in North Carolina their campus is). Maybe Pitt too; they don't hold Pittsburgh but they kinda have it surrounded.
January 9th, 2018 at 3:56 PM ^
It would be incredibly difficult to hold your own county because you either need to go undefeated or the team that takes it from you has to lose it to someone and you have to beat them later in the year and hold it
January 9th, 2018 at 5:18 PM ^
Alabama did it this year. They're the only team outside of UCF to own their own county.
January 9th, 2018 at 5:33 PM ^
They did my second path. They lost to Auburn who lost to Georgia who they beat to take it back
January 9th, 2018 at 4:13 PM ^
I don't think this map works
January 9th, 2018 at 5:30 PM ^
They have captured many small villages in rural areas but have yet to take a major city state. They must acquire more advanced technology like the forward pass to do so
January 9th, 2018 at 6:00 PM ^
Scott Frost demands the cartographer be fired post haste!
January 9th, 2018 at 6:12 PM ^
Need to schedule more opponents out West :)