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The Power Five => Big Ten => Topic started by: Geolion91 on September 06, 2017, 08:18:06 AM
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Saw this on another board. Thought y'all would enjoy it, too.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/6y8xxm/week_1_imperialism_map/
What if College Football games were actually battles for land? This map answers this question. The original map is my closest FBS team to every county, but if a team is beaten their land is taken by the team that beat them. Teams will keep their land until beaten by another team and then all land will be passed to the new winner. For example Oregon State lost to Colorado State in week 0. Colorado State then lost to Colorado in week 1. Therefore Colorado owns Colorado State's land and Oregon State's land. FCS were are not originally included, but can win their way on to the map like Howard, James Madison, Liberty, and Tennessee State did this week.
Map (https://imgur.com/a/nLXfv)
(https://imgur.com/a/nLXfv)
(https://i.imgur.com/sEcwrHh_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium) (https://imgur.com/a/nLXfv)
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Love it
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I thought this was going to be a thread about Ed Cunningham.
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awesome idea.
any chance they went back and did last year?
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The Terps should own the entire state of Texas
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The Ukraine is weak, it's feeble. I think its time to put the hurtin' on Ukraine.
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The Terps should own the entire state of Texas
Yeah, he simply did it by giving each school the county it is closest to.
It would be a fun, but more time consuming process to tier the schools out and then give bumps based on tier differences.
Like if Texas was Tier 1 and Texas Tech is Tier 4 (or whatever), then a 3 tier difference means Texas' "territory" bumps 3 more counties wide in radius out into Texas Tech's territory.
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most Horn fans will insist that the Horns own the state of Texas
Aggies, Red Raiders, Horned Frogs, Bears, Mustangs, be damned
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Would definitely love it if you post this after each week...
It's going to be quite wonky though... I.e. Purdue's original land will be held by whatever team beats Louisville, but due to the lack of OOC scheduling, it'll be almost impossible for a B1G team to reclaim that land right in the state of IN. Likewise Utah State's original land will most likely be held by the B1G all year, unless BYU beats Wisconsin. Heck, Wisconsin (and then someone else in the B1G if Wisconsin loses a conference game) could rack up all of Utah State, Utah, and BYU's original territory assuming BYU beats Utah this week and Wisconsin beats BYU.
Either way, it'll be fun to watch.
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(https://www.cfb51.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FSnTP9n2.jpg&hash=8f22e384f9fd05e3c7fe2cc0c126046c)
Week 2 map. some statistics from the map in the following link:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/6zf48k/week_2_college_football_imperialism_map/
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You drunk Oregon?
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Week 3
https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/70umfv/week_3_college_football_imperialism_map/
(https://i.imgur.com/rb6aGW5.jpg)
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Glad OSU is back on the map. Not going to get any more territory this week though.
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didn't have time to post week 4 last week, here it is:
(https://i.imgur.com/y1DtbwX.jpg)
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Kind of funny how it works. Much better off beating a bad team, that happened to win its last game, while giving a team their second straight loss, no matter how good they are, gives you nothing.
Chance to earn some territory this week though
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OSU is favored to win a big chunk of geography this week.
I got banned from Reddit r/cfb for suggesting that OSU could get more territory in a couple of weeks against PSU.
Guess that is a pretty unpopular opinion over there. :sign0024:
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OSU is favored to win a big chunk of geography this week.
I got banned from Reddit r/cfb for suggesting that OSU could get more territory in a couple of weeks against PSU.
Guess that is a pretty unpopular opinion over there. :sign0024:
I’m a semi regular at r/cfb and I’ve yet to see someone banned over a minor offense as you make it seem. Peculiar story.
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Week 5 map
https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/73sc1m/college_football_imperialism_map_week_5/
(https://i.imgur.com/M0PKriT.jpg)
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Whoever wins the OSU/Maryland game this week is largely responsible for protecting us from Canada.
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Looks like Penn State doesn't stand to gain any territory for the next couple weeks, with Northwestern and a bye week, until we play Michigan and OSU.
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Week 6
https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/758n8s/college_football_imperialism_map_week_6/
(https://i.imgur.com/jsKbh9C.jpg)
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bama's remaining opps:
arky - no land
tenn - no land and plays usc, who has no land
lsu - no land and plays au (no land) and om (no land and no chance before game for land)
miss st - no land and play byu (no land) and uk (no land, no chance) and aTm (no land, no chance) and umass (who had a game with usf with land cancelled, no chance on others)
mercer - (no land, no chance, didn't look up so not 100%, but 99.9%)
au - no land and play lsu (no land, no chance), arky (no land, chance for bama's land, no other), aTm (no land, no chance), uga (has land, no more chances), and ulm (no land, no chance)
so for remainder of season, best bama can do is win the uga land if au wins it first. otherwise have to wait until seccg for whoever and hope they have some.
on plus side, if arky somehow takes bama's land this week, we can get it back beating au if they take from arky and hold it.
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If OSU, MSU or PSU run the table, or if OSU does but loses in the final to Michigan, and Wisconsin holds serve, a big chunk of land will go to the Big Ten winner
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Penn State cannot pick up any additional territory for a few weeks, against OSU then MSU. Those are probably the only significant opportunities until the CCG.
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bama's remaining opps:
arky - no land
tenn - no land and plays usc, who has no land
lsu - no land and plays au (no land) and om (no land and no chance before game for land)
miss st - no land and play byu (no land) and uk (no land, no chance) and aTm (no land, no chance) and umass (who had a game with usf with land cancelled, no chance on others)
mercer - (no land, no chance, didn't look up so not 100%, but 99.9%)
au - no land and play lsu (no land, no chance), arky (no land, chance for bama's land, no other), aTm (no land, no chance), uga (has land, no more chances), and ulm (no land, no chance)
so for remainder of season, best bama can do is win the uga land if au wins it first. otherwise have to wait until seccg for whoever and hope they have some.
on plus side, if arky somehow takes bama's land this week, we can get it back beating au if they take from arky and hold it.
somehow i missed that lsu has land, so we could get a decent chunk of land from lsu if they make it that far.
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week 7
https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/76q1pj/college_football_imperialism_map_week_7/
(https://i.imgur.com/07jUgsa.jpg)
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Week 8
https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/787acn/college_football_imperialism_map_week_8/
(https://i.imgur.com/VsvvCyb.jpg)
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Winner of Ohio State/Penn State is going to have a big chunk of the Canadian border.
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My depression over Penn State's fall kept me from keeping up with this. Now that I am getting back up, hopefully Penn State does the same. Here is the latest map.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/7b54ve/week_10_college_football_imperialism_map/
(https://i.imgur.com/FpkOrHX.jpg)
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My Gawd. Look at all that black and orange. It's like it Halloween all over again.
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Yeah, I admit, while it would be crappy for the conference, if Iowa were to beat Wisconsin this week and then lose to Purdue next week, we'd have a significant portion of the entire northern United Sates in Purdue Gold and Black. That would make me happy......until we promptly then lost the following week to IU....
...jeez I've been a Purdue fan for too long. :'(
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My depression over Penn State's fall kept me from keeping up with this. Now that I am getting back up, hopefully Penn State does the same. Here is the latest map.
So the ONE week that Ohio State's land actually looked pretty impressive is the ONLY map not available for me to view in this thread.
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(https://i.imgur.com/h5cyK69l.jpg)
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(https://i.imgur.com/h5cyK69l.jpg)
LoL, thanks!
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That was actually not intentional. I was also very busy last week.
Just a happy coincidence.
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Week 11
(https://i.imgur.com/i912yAR.jpg)
https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/7cn03b/week_11_college_football_imperialism_map/
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So, With just a couple games left I think we can crown the True College Football National Champion.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DSiuYBrXkAEhvAZ.jpg)
(https://media1.tenor.com/images/8add1347550939117279a4f50ba3f550/tenor.gif)
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That seems odd... Where's Bama? I realize that they lost all their territory to Auburn in week 12, but did Clemson have no territory to acquire? Didn't they win their last 7 or so prior to the CFP? I'd have thought they'd pick up SOME territory in that stretch.
And how did UCF pick up so much? Shouldn't Auburn have lost all their territory to Georgia in the SECCG?
And dammit it pisses me off that Purdue won their last 3 games [including the bowl], but apparently not a single team they played had any territory to acquire.
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So Pitt for #2, eh?
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That seems odd... Where's Bama? I realize that they lost all their territory to Auburn in week 12, but did Clemson have no territory to acquire? Didn't they win their last 7 or so prior to the CFP? I'd have thought they'd pick up SOME territory in that stretch.
And how did UCF pick up so much? Shouldn't Auburn have lost all their territory to Georgia in the SECCG?
And dammit it pisses me off that Purdue won their last 3 games [including the bowl], but apparently not a single team they played had any territory to acquire.
clemson had none either.
their final 7 teams they played opp all lost games a week or 2 before playing them.
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Yah, Clemson lost all theirs to Syracuse, they never played a team with territory after.
Wisconsin was #1 in land area
USC was number #1 in population
OSU swooped in at the end and sniped both of those.
Pitt at number 2 is driving PSU fans crazy. Their "not a rival" conference mate, and their "not a rival" geography mate both beat them this year.