College Football Empires Maps: PURDUE now leads the historical version

Welcome to Week 9 of the 2018 University Football Empires map. There is also a different version of the map at the bottom of this article, which started in 2017. Here are the rules:

To start the season, each FBS team had control of its surrounding territory. Each game that involves one or two teams with one territory gives the overall winner. The results continue from week to week, so teams are still trying to take back or expand their lands. For more detailed rules, see the explanations for week 1.

Here is the updated 2018 map, with notes to follow.

Lands change this week

• After 15 years of sending Ol 'Crimson across the country to attend each College GameDay, fans came home and watched Washington defeat Oregon. In doing so, they found themselves once again scattered throughout the country, including in Wisconsin, Kentucky, North Carolina, Utah, New Mexico and California.
• Purdue caused the weekend's big surprise, as the Boilermakers left Ohio State their first defeat of the season and conquered all the lands they had collected.
• Temple also caused his first loss of the season in Cincinnati and extended his empire to contain Cincinnati and the state of Oregon.
• Utah scored 34 goals in a row in a USC destruction. The victory of the Utes also allowed them to own about half of all the current lands of the Pac-12.
• Clemson doubled his territory by beating NC State and taking control of several Midwestern territories, as well as a small group in Texas.
• In North Carolina, A & T managed to reclaim the land they controlled during weeks 1-3 by defeating Bethune-Cookman.

Last week's changes

The biggest games next week

• Iowa State-Texas Tech is the only game of the week 9 in which both teams own land.
• However, Georgia will try to take the lead in the field of play against Florida.
• Washington State will play against Stanford and look to defend his territory as well as the hopes of the Pac-12 championship
• Purdue brings a run of three consecutive wins and a bi-coastal empire to East Lansing.
• Texas A & M and Mississippi State are fighting to allow the state of Mississippi to reclaim its country.

Progression this season

Updated rankings

Territories

1. Our Lady – 18

t2. Purdue & Clemson – 12

t4. Texas and Washington State – 8

counties

1. Michigan – 306
2. Utah – 268
3. Clemson – 250
4. Alabama – 241
5. Purdue – 240

Population

1. Notre Dame – 58,746,297
2. Purdue – 44,483,938
3. Clemson – 24 114 545
4. Washington State – 16,463,931
5. South Florida – 14,658,163

Land area (square miles)

1. Florida – 700,256
2. Utah – 454,000
3. Our Lady – 320 513
4. Michigan – 281,653
5. Washington State – 258,252

We are also tracking a historical version of the map, which began in 2017 and was postponed until 2018. On this map, Purdue now controls almost everything.

• Purdue blew our old leaders off the historic map Saturday night against Ohio State. They are now the leaders in all categories of the historic ranking after entering this card for the first time since the third week of last season.

Elsewhere on the historical map:

• Purdue and Michigan State are facing all the lands that Purdue has won after their victory over Ohio State.
• Iowa State is playing on Texas Tech in hopes of defending the ground they took from West Virginia and keeping alive their hopes of winning the Big 12 title.
• Notre Dame will face the Navy and its triple option to defend their title hopes and territories scattered across the country.
• Houston will try to give the USF its first defeat of the season and will take over his pitch.
• Oklahoma State will seek to upset Texas and change the color of its territories into a slightly less burnt orange.
• The state of North Dakota will focus on continuing its season without defeat as it faces South Dakota.