California college football empire map · after Week 0 · Aug 23, 2025

Who owned California? Nevada.

Nevada controls 19.2% of California's land: 14 of its 58 counties. UNLV is next with 19.2% (2 counties, home to 2.23M people). 10 schools split the state at kickoff; 10 remain now. Fresno State, Sacramento State, Stanford hold none of it.

California, by empire

EmpireLandCountiesPeople
Nevada19.2%141.39M
UNLV19.2%22.23M
Kansas16.8%92.49M
California12.4%156.42M
San Diego State10.1%36.01M
UCLA7.8%210.7M
San José State5.7%63.3M
Oregon4.6%270K
USC3.4%34.45M
Hawai'i0.8%22.39M

Owners of California land, by week

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Largest California counties