AeroHorn

I could be wrong, but I was thinking of cases where the loser jumps into the playoffs because of inherently non-knockoff nature of college football. For example, let's say PSU beats OSU this week (retains belt and takes over vast tracks of land), but loses in conference championship allowing OSU to be the sole representative in the playoff. The belt and land will stay in the Big 10 assuming conference champion (Wisconsin?) retains the land and belt it got for PSU by winning its bowl game. Alabama may beat OSU to win national title, but sans belt and land. As long as the path to national championship is open to teams that can avoid knock-off games (conference championships), they can be empty handed while parking the belt and land with their conference winner brethren.

that's not a PI

nice tip to self

that was quick

I was expecting that. A nice drive was stopped by conservative plays.

why did pirate puss out there?

that should have been an ejection

he makes very nice catches leaning backwards

The pirate is a gambler

I don't think so. For the Belt, it is possible for it to be stuck in a conference as long as the current holder loses to a conference mate before losing an OOC game, and it can only be passed through one team at a time (only one game matters each week, that too if the holder is playing). The land on the other hand is potentially being captured/lost at every game, and this makes it more "realistic" reflection of team/conference strength than the belt. Obviously, even with only one undefeated team at the end of the season, there is land held by others and belt also being passed between other teams. In the eventuality of a multiple year undefeated run where OOC chain gets linked across all conferences, there is still a chance where the undefeated team's playoff opponent snuck in by avoiding its own conference title game, like Alabama last year. Only a true knockoff tournament will coalesce the two, I think; and if that is happening, the belt is moot. There is another game on Reddit, where each team bets half of their current endowment on each game. The latest post is here. We started with $10B and promptly lost $5B in our first game. Unlike the imperialism map, this is not a bet between teams where the winner gets the loser's money, but are bets placed with a betting office. We gained 130M against Tulsa (our winning odds were high, so payout was low) and $1.6B against USC. The running score is kept in a Google spreadsheet. We have lost 34% of our endowment this year. Very bad showing.

The website I linked in OP is not active. The guy who started it last year on Reddit has moved to SBNation and is posting weekly updates there and on Reddit. Yes, it is hard to scheme to grab land, because most of it is out of your control, from the size of it to whether your opponent has any of it when you play them. TCU lost to tOSU and has no land for us to gain, but they can get ours. The only thing I can think of for maximizing land is to be the first tough team your opponent plays. Let's see our schedule with this in mind. 1. Maryland: Hmm, let's move on. 2. Tulsa: We were their first tough opponent. We got their land. 3. USC: Stanford was there earlier to take it away 4. TCU: tOSU took it away 5. KSU: MSU took it away and if they beat WVU (very unlikely), then we'll have the opportunity to take it from them. So, not much of a chance 6. OU: They will come in undefeated and we'll have a chance to add to our tornado alley, and Hawaii! (from Army from Hawaii). They didn't/don't get anything from UCLA, ISU and Baylor because they lost prior to playing them. 7. Baylor: Nothing to gain 8. OSU: They could be undefeated when we meet them with TTU this weekend as their main competition. We can gain their land and Houston from TTU, but no west Texas because TTU lost to Ole Miss, which was brutally robbed by Alabama. 9. WVU is ideally setup for us in terms of imperialism, they play all winnable games till the 9th game against us, with 3 difficult ones to close the season (TCU, OSU, OU). Not much to gain besides WVU because of intra-conference fighting. 10. TTU: Not much to gain. 11. ISU: Ditto 12: KU: We go 8-0 in conference and give it all away to Kansas! So, best case scenario, some Big 12 land; worst case scenario, Rock Chalk Jayhawk. The map maker also has continuation map from last season as if 2018 is continuation of 2017 season. This is lot more biased towards long winning streaks and hence cleaner.

We didn't gain any land from the landless Trojans. We still have some tornado alley region taken from Tulsa. On the other hand, our home was taken away from Maryland and our new owners are Owls. Better than Turtles, I guess.

That is consistent trait. He needs to be coached to throw to location rather than watch player reach it first.

I am surprised our vanilla running game is getting consistent yards

get backup QB some practice?

nice D

nice sack

yeah, that angle looks bad.

he didn't lower his head.

how did the ball fall back to him?

nice D plan. Make them work on short stuff.

that's a nice stat

I don't know if it is the camera angle, but our punts seem awfully close to being blocked.

but makes up for it what a good run

that was a bad pass, and he had time