Empire map · after Week 3 · Sep 11–13, 2025

California takes 190K sq mi

California won 27–14 at home against Minnesota and took 190K sq mi (186 counties), home to 9.88M people. Utah won 31–6 at Wyoming for 181K sq mi. North Texas won 59–10 at home against Washington State for 141K sq mi. 17 more conquests moved 580K sq mi. 14 empires fell; 52 remain.

College football empire map after Week 3 2025, 52 empires; empires that grew this week in color. — In color: empires that grew this weekDownload map image

Every conquest in Week 3

Conqueror	Took from	Result	Land	Counties	People
California	Minnesota	W 27–14 vs MINN	190K sq mi	186	9.88M
Utah	Wyoming	W 31–6 at WYO	181K sq mi	81	4.08M
North Texas	Washington State	W 59–10 vs WSU	141K sq mi	58	8.44M
Miami	South Florida	W 49–12 vs USF	123K sq mi	61	10.8M
Utah State	Air Force	W 49–30 vs AF	74K sq mi	51	2.44M
Ole Miss	Arkansas	W 41–35 vs ARK	55K sq mi	82	3.35M
West Virginia	Pittsburgh	W 31–24 vs PITT	50K sq mi	69	7.76M
Georgia	Tennessee	W 44–41 at TENN	44K sq mi	69	4.67M
Alabama	Wisconsin	W 38–14 vs WIS	44K sq mi	65	5.5M
Louisiana Tech	New Mexico State	W 49–14 vs NMSU	42K sq mi	27	1.76M
Oklahoma	Temple	W 42–3 at TEM	28K sq mi	41	9.6M
Vanderbilt	South Carolina	W 31–7 at SC	22K sq mi	44	2.53M
Southern Miss	App State	W 38–22 vs APP	21K sq mi	48	4.87M
Georgia Tech	Clemson	W 24–21 vs CLEM	15K sq mi	23	1.07M
USC	Purdue	W 33–17 at PUR	14K sq mi	33	2.18M
Arizona State	Texas State	W 34–15 vs TXST	13K sq mi	16	5.18M
NC State	Wake Forest	W 34–24 at WAKE	12K sq mi	30	4.01M
Ohio State	Ohio	W 37–9 vs OHIO	11K sq mi	24	857K
Houston	Colorado	W 36–20 vs COLO	6,889 sq mi	11	3.54M
Georgia Southern	Jacksonville State	W 41–34 vs JXST	6,686 sq mi	15	491K