THE MAP

Most of us on r/fcs are familiar with the concept of imperialism maps. This year, I'm going to maintain one for the FCS. This map assigns each county in the United States to it's closest FCS team. As games are played, winning teams take the land owned by their opponents. This leads to interesting results after several weeks of results accumulate. Beating a team with no land does not result in any land gained for the winning team. Moreover, in this map, FBS teams do not get any land for beating FCS teams (although I may make a separate map allowing such if time permits). However, Division II, III, and NAIA teams are eligible to win their way onto the map by beating landowning teams. As such, congratulations to Bowie State, Lenoir-Rhyne, Slippery Rock, Miles College, and Tarleton State for winning their way onto the map!

By lucky coincidence, every FCS team owns at least one county to start the season. After the results of Week 12, 20 teams remain on the board as well as 5 D2 teams. As mentioned above, FBS teams are not allowed on this map, so teams who lost to an FBS opponent aren't affected. A full table listing each team's number of counties, population, and area are given in a comment below. because it is so long, I put it in a comment so that you can minimize it to get it out of the way.

I do my best to check everything in these maps, but if you do notice a mistake, please let me know. I will fix things in future maps. The location data is taken from either Wikipedia or Google Maps, while county information is from the US Census Bureau. Special thanks to /u/nbingham196 for the original idea and for doing the FBS map, as well as /u/johndoemonopoly for helping me get some utilities set up to automate most of the map making processes.

I also posted this map to r/cfb. Check out our discussion over there. Or check out the discussions about the preseason, Week 0, Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, Week 5, Week 6, Week 7, Week 8, Week 9, and Week 10, and Week 11 maps.

Sorry for the poor resolution and late posting of the map this week. GIMP decided to act up once this thing reached 1600 layers I guess...

THE MAP