THE MAP

This is an imperialism map inspired by u/nbingham196's brilliant idea and created with invaluable help from u/JohnDoeMonopoly. The principle of an imperialism map is that each county in the America is assigned the closest team. The distance for each team is calculated based on the great-circle distance between the stadium of the team and the center of the county according to US Census Bureau data. This map reflects the results of the quarterfinals. When teams win games, they gain the land of the team they beat. Because the FCS playoff is a knockout format, every winner is guaranteed to gain land and the national champion will end up will everything at the end.

The population and land area statistics for each team is as follows:

I will try to make new maps as the FCS playoffs progress, but finals are right around the corner, so time may be tight. But I'll do my best to update the map over the course of the playoffs. What do you think of the term "Clay-off" map?

I have also posted this to r/cfb. Check out that discussion here.

THE MAP