Welcome to Week 14 of the 2018 College Football Empires Map. Here are the rules:
The College Football Empires Map entering bowl season
The season started with every FBS team in control of its area. Since then, each winning team has taken each losing team’s land.
To begin the season, each FBS team was given control of its surrounding territory. Each game that involves one or two teams with territory results in the winner claiming all of it. Results carry on week to week, so teams are always in the process of trying to regain or expand land. For more detailed rules, check out Week 1’s explanation.
Here’s the updated 2018 map after Championship Weekend, with notes to follow.
Conference Championship land exchanges
- In a rematch of one of the national champs’ hardest games last year, Alabama came back to defeat Georgia with the help of a backup quarterback to win its conference and expand the Tide empire.
- In a rematch of one of the national champs’ hardest games last year, UCF came back to defeat Memphis with the help of a backup quarterback to win its conference and expand the Knight empire.
- Oklahoma avenged its loss to Texas in the Big 12 Championship, taking control of all of the Big 12 land and finding itself in the Playoff.
- Washington’s defense out-attrition’d Utah’s to win the Pac-12 and UAB’s homeland. The offenses never arrived for the battle.
Yep, I’ll keep this going through bowl season. Here’s how it can impact the map.
- First, Army will take on Navy next week in the Army-Navy game. If Army wins, the Black Knights will take their territory into the Armed Forces Bowl against Houston.
- Notre Dame and Clemson will face off in the Cotton Bowl semifinal. The winner will take control of much of the Northeast, as well as some Pac-12 land and a little chunk in Texas. They will also take that land into the championship game.
- The other semifinal features Alabama and Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl. The winner will conquer most of the South, as well as other categories scattered throughout the country.
- The National Championship will be for all the land that Clemson, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, and Alabama currently own. The national champion will also win the Empires Map for this year, as that team will be guaranteed to lead in territories, population, counties, and land area. No, that doesn’t always happen — just see 2007 for one extreme example.
- UCF will be in the Fiesta Bowl against LSU and look to defend its land and finish off a second consecutive undefeated season.
- The Rose Bowl between Washington and Ohio State will be a battle for the runner-up position on the Empires Map, with the winner sure to come in second in counties, population, land area, and territories. Washington hopes to notch its first win over Ohio State since 1994.
- North Carolina A&T will take on Alcorn State in the Celebration Bowl for possession of ECU’s original home. This is a rematch of the inaugural Celebration Bowl, which A&T won.
- Oregon will take on Michigan State in the Redbox Bowl in a game distinctly lacking the color red and boxes. Oregon will try to defend its vast empire. Last time they met, they were both in the top 10. This time, not so much.
- Texas A&M will take on NC State in the Gator Bowl. This will be their first meeting despite both schools having teams since 1894.
- The Arizona Bowl will feature Arkansas State taking on Nevada for ownership of Charlotte’s original territory.
- In a matchup of preseason top 10 teams, Miami and Wisconsin will fight in the Pinstripe Bowl for possession of Toledo’s homeland, an appropriate reward for their disappointing seasons.
The entire season so far:
Stats!
Territories
1. Alabama- 24
2. Notre Dame- 21
3. Ohio State- 17
4. Oklahoma- 16
t5. Clemson and UCF- 12
Counties
- Alabama - 746
- Ohio State - 546
- Oklahoma - 320
- Notre Dame - 313
- Oregon - 268
Population
- Notre Dame - 65,906,571
- Ohio State - 58,966,973
- Alabama - 37,263,301
- UCF - 32,921,294
- Oklahoma - 29,223,468
Land Area (sq. miles)
- Alabama - 1,076,964
- Oregon - 454,000
- Ohio State - 448,768
- Notre Dame - 353,924
- Oklahoma - 289,638
This season also includes a totally different Empires Map, one began a year earlier in 2017.
- With General Tua taking heavy fire, Lieutenant Hurts took command and led Alabama to a win over Georgia, expanding territory in the East.
- UCF came back to defeat Memphis and establish a central empire in Texas and Oklahoma.
We will finish the Historic Map with just four teams, showing two entire seasons still isn’t enough to consolidate all of FBS.
- The winner of the Playoff will own the land currently owned by Alabama, Oklahoma, and Notre Dame, creating a mostly Southern empire.
- The winner of the Rose Bowl will own Ohio State’s mostly Northern empire.
- The winner of the Fiesta Bowl will own UCF’s Central empire.
- The winner of the FCS championship will own the three territories NDSU currently owns.
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