Big 12 Football 202620252024

The 2025 season as it finished, with the official tiebreaking procedures applied to the final results.

The Big 12 empire

Through Week 15 · Sat, Dec 6

Arizona's home territory, held by UtahArizona State's home territory, held by Texas TechBYU's home territory, held by Texas TechBaylor's home territory, held by Texas TechCincinnati's home territory, held by UtahColorado's home territory, held by ArizonaHouston's home territory, held by ArizonaIowa State's home territory, held by UtahKansas's home territory, held by UtahKansas State's home territory, held by UtahOklahoma State's home territory, held by Iowa StateTCU's home territory, held by Texas TechTexas Tech's home territory, held by ArizonaUCF's home territory, held by Iowa StateUtah's home territory, held by ArizonaWest Virginia's home territory, held by Utah

Every county in the lower 48 started the season with its nearest Big 12 school, measured to the home stadium; the dot in each territory is that stadium. When two Big 12 teams play, the winner takes everything the loser holds at that moment, not only the loser's own land. A team that has lost it all is out until it beats whoever holds some, and only games between two Big 12 teams count, because nobody else holds land to win. Outlined territories changed hands in the week shown. 12 of the sixteen hold nothing right now.

Who holds what

Team Share of the mapTerritories held
1Arizona38.9%Colorado, Houston, Texas Tech, Utah
2Utah38.2%Arizona, Cincinnati, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, West Virginia
3Texas Tech14.6%Arizona State, BYU, Baylor, TCU
4Iowa State8.3%Oklahoma State, UCF
Arizona State0.0%none, out until it wins
BYU0.0%none, out until it wins
Baylor0.0%none, out until it wins
Cincinnati0.0%none, out until it wins
Colorado0.0%none, out until it wins
Houston0.0%none, out until it wins
Kansas0.0%none, out until it wins
Kansas State0.0%none, out until it wins
Oklahoma State0.0%none, out until it wins
TCU0.0%none, out until it wins
UCF0.0%none, out until it wins
West Virginia0.0%none, out until it wins

Share is land area, from an equal-area projection, so a county in the Mountain West counts for what it covers. Each territory is named for the school it started with.

How it moved

  1. Week 15
    • Texas Tech beat BYU in the championship game (it held nothing to take)
  2. Week 14
  3. Week 13
  4. Week 12
  5. Week 11
  6. Week 10
  7. Week 9
  8. Week 8
  9. Week 7
  10. Week 6
  11. Week 5
  12. Week 4
  13. Week 3
  14. Week 1

Share the map

An image of the map, drawn after every week of Big 12 games. Each week keeps its own address, so a post made now still shows this week later in the season.

The Big 12 Empire map, 2025
This week, permanently
https://big12ology.com/season/cards/2025/empire-week-15.png
Whatever week is current
https://big12ology.com/season/cards/empire.png

Swap .png for .svg on either. Every earlier week is there too: /season/cards/2025/ followed by empire-start or empire-week-NN, as in empire-week-15.