So Iowa gained Wyoming, a swath of north Texas, and western Iowa early on. They lost all of that land to PSU. Then nothing really mattered for 4 games because they either did not have any land to lose, or the teams they beat (Ill and Minn) didn't have any to give up. But OSU won all of the land we had lost to PSU, and then we were able to regain it by beating OSU. Due to the nature of the beat down, they should have given us some land in Canada too, just because.
So we need to beat Wisc, and then we need Purdue to beat NW followed by our stomping the Boilermakers. Nebraska can do nothing for us, no one they can beat between now and us currently owns any land.
Yes, this is stupid, but I would be so irrationally angry if we ended the season with Nebraska owning the entire upper Midwest.
By the way, how do you go about conquering Alaska?