NFL 2007 Power Rankings

[Northwood_DK]

Week 3

Team	FOF_S	ESPN	CNNSI	CBS	FOX	NBC	US T	F F
New England Patriots	1	1	1	2	2	1	1	1
Indianapolis Colts	2	2	2	1	1	2	2	2
Pittsburgh Steelers	3	4	4	4	3	3	4	3
Dallas Cowboys	4	3	3	3	4	5	3	4
Green Bay Packers	5	6	5	5	5	4	5	5
Baltimore Ravens	6	5	11	6	6	8	7	8
Tennessee Titans	7	11	6	9	7	17	15	7
Jacksonville Jaguars	8	10	9	10	8	10	10	11
Seattle Seahawks	9	7	7	8	10	6	6	12
Denver Broncos	10	8	12	11	9	11	8	14
Houston Texans	11	17	8	15	11	13	11	10
Tampa Bay Buccaneers	12	19	10	17	12	9	16	18
Carolina Panthers	12	12	15	7	13	15	14	17
Washington Redskins	14	14	16	16	17	12	19	9
San Diego Chargers	15	9	13	12	14	18	9	13
Philadelphia Eagles	16	16	17	18	18	21	13	6
San Francisco 49ers	17	15	18	14	19	16	17	19
Chicago Bears	18	13	14	13	16	7	12	21
Detroit Lions	19	20	20	19	22	14	20	16
Cincinnati Bengals	20	18	21	21	20	19	18	22
Arizona Cardinals	20	22	19	20	21	24	22	20
New York (N) Giants	22	23	22	22	23	22	24	15
Minnesota Vikings	23	25	28	25	25	23	26	24
New York (A) Jets	24	21	23	23	15	20	23	25
Kansas City Chiefs	25	28	25	24	24	26	27	23
Oakland Raiders	26	24	26	26	26	28	25	27
Cleveland Browns	27	27	27	27	28	25	28	29
New Orleans Saints	28	26	29	28	27	27	21	26
Miami Dolphins	29	31	30	30	30	29	29	30
St. Louis Rams	30	30	24	29	29	31	30	32
Atlanta Falcons	31	32	32	31	32	32	31	31
Buffalo Bills	32	29	31	32	31	30	32	28

FOF_S –> FOF_Stats (my own ranking)
US T –> US Today
F F –> Football Frontier

[MikeVic]

Interesting to see some of the outliers!

[molson]

Originally Posted by MikeVic

Interesting to see some of the outliers!

"Power Rankings" is kind of an elusive criteria, but NBC sure loves the Bears still.

[MikeVic]

The difference with the Eagles between NBC and FF is astounding.

[Greyroofoo]

Wow, every team in the AFC South is in the top 11

[Huckleberry]

Originally Posted by Greyroofoo

Wow, every team in the AFC South is in the top 11

The AFC South is 6-0 outside their division.

[Galaril]

AFC south may look something like this by the end of the season if the Texans hold togther and the Jaguars don't fall off the cliff:
Indianapolis 13-3
Tennesee 10-6
Jacksonville 8-8
Houston 7-9

[Crim]

Based on last weekend vs Jacksonville, I'd rate the Broncos #33... right behind Notre Dame! :grr:

[MizzouRah]

Originally Posted by Crim

Based on last weekend vs Jacksonville, I'd rate the Broncos #33... right behind Notre Dame! :grr:

They haven't played the Rams yet.

[Northwood_DK]

Week 4

Team	FOF_S	ESPN	CNNSI	CBS	FOX	NBC	US T	F F
New England Patriots	1	1	1	2	2	1	1	2
Indianapolis Colts	2	2	2	1	1	2	2	1
Dallas Cowboys	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Green Bay Packers	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5
Pittsburgh Steelers	5	6	8	5	6	6	6	4
Seattle Seahawks	6	5	6	6	5	7	5	8
Tennessee Titans	7	7	5	8	7	8	10	6
Tampa Bay Buccaneers	8	9	9	7	8	5	7	10
Jacksonville Jaguars	9	8	7	9	9	9	8	7
Detroit Lions	10	12	12	10	11	10	9	9
Baltimore Ravens	11	11	14	11	12	12	12	20
Washington Redskins	12	13	18	15	16	11	13	15
Denver Broncos	13	10	15	13	10	13	11	13
Arizona Cardinals	14	15	10	12	15	15	14	14
New York (N) Giants	15	18	17	14	14	17	15	17
Houston Texans	16	17	11	18	13	20	16	12
Carolina Panthers	17	14	21	16	20	14	19	19
Kansas City Chiefs	18	21	16	21	17	24	23	23
Philadelphia Eagles	19	22	22	19	24	18	21	11
San Francisco 49ers	20	19	23	17	27	16	22	21
Oakland Raiders	21	24	25	23	18	22	25	18
Cleveland Browns	22	25	13	24	19	21	24	27
San Diego Chargers	23	16	19	22	21	25	17	28
Cincinnati Bengals	24	23	24	27	22	19	18	22
Chicago Bears	25	20	20	20	23	26	19	25
Minnesota Vikings	26	27	26	29	28	23	27	16
Atlanta Falcons	27	28	28	26	29	29	29	30
New York (A) Jets	28	26	29	28	26	27	27	29
Buffalo Bills	29	30	27	25	25	28	30	24
New Orleans Saints	30	29	30	30	30	30	26	26
Miami Dolphins	31	31	31	32	31	32	31	31
St. Louis Rams	32	32	32	31	32	31	32	32

Its not often they can agree on anything but this week all eight Power Rankings agree that Dallas belongs at #3.

What the big Power Rankings cannot agree with Jim and the Football Frontier ranking about is the strength of the Eagles (Jim 11, Fox 24), Vikings (Jim 16, FOX 28) and Chargers (Jim 28, ESPN 16).

I’m clueless how Dr Z can put the Browns at # 13 and that’s a stunning 14 places higher then Football Frontier. Among the big networks the biggest disagreement is between FOX (27th) and NBC (16th) who ranks the 49ers 11 spots apart.


FOF_S –> FOF_Stats (my own ranking)
US T –> US Today
F F –> Football Frontier

[Thomkal]

wow nice jump for my beloved Cards.

[Northwood_DK]

Week 5

Team	FOF_S	ESPN	CNNSI	CBS	FOX	NBC	US T	F F
New England Patriots	1	1	2	2	2	1	1	3
Indianapolis Colts	2	2	1	1	1	2	2	1
Dallas Cowboys	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	4
Pittsburgh Steelers	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	2
Tennessee Titans	5	7	5	6	6	6	7	7
Jacksonville Jaguars	6	6	6	7	5	7	9	5
Green Bay Packers	7	5	7	5	7	5	5	6
Washington Redskins	8	8	13	11	11	8	8	8
Arizona Cardinals	9	13	8	9	12	15	6	9
Baltimore Ravens	10	9	10	8	8	9	19	16
New York (N) Giants	11	14	12	10	10	11	13	14
Seattle Seahawks	12	10	9	15	13	12	11	10
Houston Texans	13	16	11	14	16	13	10	12
Tampa Bay Buccaneers	14	11	14	12	14	10	12	13
Carolina Panthers	15	17	17	13	17	14	14	17
San Diego Chargers	16	12	15	16	9	16	16	20
Detroit Lions	17	18	18	17	19	17	18	11
Oakland Raiders	18	20	22	27	18	18	15	22
Chicago Bears	19	15	16	18	15	25	20	21
Denver Broncos	20	19	25	21	22	19	27	19
Philadelphia Eagles	21	22	20	19	26	24	24	15
Cleveland Browns	22	24	19	28	21	20	17	26
Kansas City Chiefs	23	25	21	25	20	22	25	23
San Francisco 49ers	24	21	23	20	28	23	21	25
Cincinnati Bengals	25	23	24	22	23	21	23	24
Minnesota Vikings	26	27	27	26	27	26	26	18
Buffalo Bills	27	26	26	23	24	27	22	28
Atlanta Falcons	28	29	28	29	25	29	28	27
New York (A) Jets	29	28	29	24	29	28	29	30
New Orleans Saints	30	30	30	30	30	30	31	29
Miami Dolphins	31	32	31	32	32	32	30	31
St. Louis Rams	32	31	32	31	31	31	32	32

Teams with huge gaps this week is:

Ravens (high: 8 Low: 19)
Browns (high: 17 Low: 28)
Raiders (high: 15 Low: 27)
Chargers (high: 9 Low: 20)
Eagles (high: 15 Low: 26)

FOF_S –> FOF_Stats (my own ranking)
US T –> US Today
F F –> Football Frontier

[Northwood_DK]

Just came across this link over at Pro Football Reference. An interesting twist to the “normal” Power Ranking.

http://www.pro-football-reference.co...rdpress/?p=395

[wade moore]

It's strange to see my Skins in the top 10, but it's probably valid as of right now.

[Alan T]

I don't get it how Football Frontier has the Steelers ranked 2nd right now. I also am amazed at how low Us Today has the Broncos ranked.. Do they really think they are a worse team than all of those other teams that they put ahead of them?

And wow, there are alot of really bad teams right now.. when my Falcons can't even crack the bottom 4.

[RendeR]

The Broncos are a very weak team right now, they're one of the few teams whose defense might actually be worse than the Bengals.

[path12]

Am I the only person who thinks Dallas is playing way above their heads?

[MikeVic]

Originally Posted by path12

Am I the only person who thinks Dallas is playing way above their heads?

There's something about them. Like the Saints last year. I liked that the Saints did good, but they just didn't seem like a Conference Championship team. The Cowboys are doing good, but there's something off about them for me too. I think with every team but the Colts, Pats, and Steelers I feel that way though.

[Huckleberry]

What's off is that they play in the shitty NFC, their pass defense is poor, and their offense is inconsistent.

So basically they look like NFC championship material right now.

[Alan T]

It is tough to get a read on some teams, like I mentioned above, I think Pittsburgh was way too highly ranked by F_F.. I mean they lost to Arizona who is actually one of the above average teams so far this year, but a top 2 team takes care of teams like Arizona. Likewise Dallas almost lost (and should have lost) to a very bad Buffalo team. Perhaps Dallas was in a trap game and was looking forward to the next week vs the Patriots... but good teams take care of teams like Buffalo even in trap games (See the Pats defeat of Cleveland, even though it looked ugly.)

Right now it seems like there are two dominant teams (Indy and NE) who can only be beaten by one of the top 4-5 teams (including perhaps Pitt, Dallas). Then you have the next rung of teams including Dallas, Pitt, Baltimore, Green Bay, Tennessee who could all beat each other or other teams in the league, but they also could just as easily lose to them.

Then you have the middle rung teams that you never know what you will get each week, finally you get to the really bad teams, which include my Falcons , the Saints, Rams, etc.. who really look like they will lose every week unless someone just gives them the game.

[rkmsuf]

Ten and Baltimore have no chance of beating indy or ne.

Looks like Pit, Indy, NE in the AFC.

NFC is a complete crapshoot. Now if Dallas comes up big this week you'd put them as the solid favorite.

[Huckleberry]

Originally Posted by rkmsuf

Ten and Baltimore have no chance of beating indy or ne.

Tennessee beat Indy last year and was within a dropped pass of attempting a game-winning field goal in Week 2 this year. "No chance" seems a little extreme with those events in mind.

[rkmsuf]

Originally Posted by Huckleberry

Tennessee beat Indy last year and was within a dropped pass of attempting a game-winning field goal in Week 2 this year. "No chance" seems a little extreme with those events in mind.

Ok, little chance of representing the AFC. Very little.

[nole4sho]

Glad to see the home team fighting for the #1 pick in the draft. Should be fun watching the phins pass on Brohm, Woodson or any worthy QB for Chad Henne. Now Jacksonville is making this North Florida Boi proud with that ranking even though in the grand scheme of things it doesnt mean much.

[Huckleberry]

Understood. Absolutely agree if that is the question.

[Thomkal]

wow my beloved Cards in the Top 10. And playing the Carolina Pussycats this weekend at home with possibly a 46 year old QB's starting who's only been on the team for 6 days. Gotta like the Cards chances to move up next week.

[Kodos]

Go Fins!

[Galaril]

Originally Posted by rkmsuf

Ok, little chance of representing the AFC. Very little.

Spoken like a true Pats fan. I wouldn't bet on the Titans to represent the AFC but they are now one of the toughest D's in the NFL and are getting back to their old 1999-2003 team style. But yeah, I do agree NE or MAYBE Indy in the AFC. NFC it probably won't matter again.

[Northwood_DK]

Week 6

Team	FOF_S	ESPN	CNNSI	CBS	FOX	NBC	US T	F F
New England Patriots	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1
Indianapolis Colts	2	2	2	2	1	2	2	2
Pittsburgh Steelers	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	4
Dallas Cowboys	4	4	4	5	5	4	4	3
Jacksonville Jaguars	5	5	5	6	4	6	5	5
Green Bay Packers	6	6	6	4	9	5	6	6
New York Giants	7	9	9	8	10	9	8	8
Tampa Bay Buc.	8	8	8	10	11	7	7	9
Baltimore Ravens	9	7	7	7	7	8	18	22
Washington Redskins	10	11	11	15	12	13	11	10
Tennessee Titans	11	12	12	11	8	12	10	7
San Diego Chargers	12	10	10	9	6	10	13	17
Carolina Panthers	13	13	13	12	13	11	9	11
Detroit Lions	14	15	15	14	18	15	22	12
Seattle Seahawks	15	14	14	21	16	14	16	18
Arizona Cardinals	16	18	18	13	17	19	12	19
Philadelphia Eagles	17	17	17	16	22	21	17	13
Houston Texans	18	20	20	17	15	20	15	14
Kansas City Chiefs	19	16	16	19	14	16	21	16
Cleveland Browns	20	19	19	18	19	17	14	20
Minnesota Vikings	21	22	22	24	23	23	19	15
Denver Broncos	22	21	21	20	26	18	25	21
Oakland Raiders	23	25	25	25	20	24	20	23
Chicago Bears	24	23	23	22	24	26	23	24
San Francisco 49ers	25	24	24	23	30	22	24	27
New Orleans Saints	26	26	26	27	21	27	31	25
Cincinnati Bengals	27	27	27	26	25	25	27	29
Buffalo Bills	28	28	28	28	27	28	26	28
Atlanta Falcons	29	29	29	30	28	29	28	26
New York Jets	30	30	30	29	29	30	29	30
St. Louis Rams	31	31	31	31	31	31	32	32
Miami Dolphins	32	32	32	32	32	32	30	31

Disagreement this week is over the Ravens, Saints and Chargers

FOF_S –> FOF_Stats (my own ranking)
US T –> US Today
F F –> Football Frontier

[wade moore]

I'm surprised my Skins have stayed so high in these things, I guess the Packers game didn't do as much damage as I thought it would.

[Galaril]

Jacksonville are posers and will be rooted out once they play someone decent.

[Northwood_DK]

Week 7

Team	FOF_S	ESPN	CNNSI	CBS	FOX	NBC	US T	F F
New England Patriots	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	2
Indianapolis Colts	2	2	2	2	1	2	2	1
Dallas Cowboys	3	3	3	4	3	3	3	5
New York Giants	4	4	4	5	4	7	5	3
Green Bay Packers	5	5	5	3	8	4	4	4
Pittsburgh Steelers	6	6	6	6	9	5	6	10
Tennessee Titans	7	8	8	9	7	9	7	7
Jacksonville Jaguars	8	7	7	7	5	6	9	8
Washington Redskins	9	10	10	13	10	12	10	6
San Diego Chargers	10	9	9	8	6	8	17	12
Carolina Panthers	11	12	12	12	12	11	8	13
Detroit Lions	12	11	11	10	14	13	13	9
Tampa Bay Buc.	13	16	16	11	16	14	11	15
Kansas City Chiefs	14	13	13	14	11	16	15	16
Baltimore Ravens	15	14	14	15	15	15	22	24
Seattle Seahawks	16	15	15	17	20	10	16	19
Denver Broncos	17	17	17	20	13	18	23	17
Cleveland Browns	18	19	19	16	18	17	12	22
Arizona Cardinals	19	20	20	18	26	21	14	21
Chicago Bears	20	18	18	19	19	22	20	18
Houston Texans	21	21	21	21	21	19	18	14
Philadelphia Eagles	22	22	22	24	27	24	26	11
Minnesota Vikings	23	26	26	27	23	20	21	20
Cincinnati Bengals	24	23	23	22	22	23	24	28
New Orleans Saints	25	24	24	23	17	26	29	25
Buffalo Bills	26	25	25	25	24	25	19	23
Oakland Raiders	27	27	27	28	25	27	25	26
San Francisco 49ers	28	28	28	26	30	28	27	29
Atlanta Falcons	29	29	29	30	28	29	28	27
New York Jets	30	30	30	29	29	30	30	30
St. Louis Rams	31	31	31	31	31	31	32	32
Miami Dolphins	32	32	32	32	32	32	31	31

[Northwood_DK]

Week 8

Team	FOF_S	ESPN	CNNSI	CBS	FOX	NBC	US T	F F
New England Patriots	1	1	1	2	2	1	1	1
Indianapolis Colts	2	2	2	1	1	2	2	2
Dallas Cowboys	3	3	3	4	3	3	3	3
Green Bay Packers	4	4	4	3	5	6	4	7
Pittsburgh Steelers	5	6	6	6	4	4	6	9
New York Giants	6	5	5	5	6	7	5	6
Jacksonville Jaguars	7	8	8	7	8	8	7	4
San Diego Chargers	8	7	7	8	7	5	11	8
Tennessee Titans	9	9	9	9	9	9	8	5
Detroit Lions	10	10	10	10	13	11	9	12
Kansas City Chiefs	11	11	11	11	10	14	14	13
Seattle Seahawks	12	12	12	14	20	10	18	14
Baltimore Ravens	13	14	14	12	14	12	21	21
Cleveland Browns	14	13	13	13	12	13	10	24
Washington Redskins	15	15	15	17	15	17	17	10
Tampa Bay Buc.	16	17	17	15	16	15	16	18
Carolina Panthers	17	18	18	16	19	18	12	17
Denver Broncos	18	16	16	20	18	16	26	16
Philadelphia Eagles	19	20	20	21	22	19	20	11
New Orleans Saints	20	19	19	19	11	20	24	22
Arizona Cardinals	21	21	21	18	23	23	15	25
Buffalo Bills	22	22	22	23	17	21	13	23
Chicago Bears	23	23	23	22	21	26	22	15
Houston Texans	24	24	24	24	26	24	19	20
Minnesota Vikings	25	26	26	27	24	22	23	19
Cincinnati Bengals	26	25	25	25	25	25	25	27
Oakland Raiders	27	27	27	28	27	27	27	26
Atlanta Falcons	28	29	29	30	28	28	29	28
San Francisco 49ers	29	28	28	26	30	29	28	29
New York Jets	30	30	30	29	29	30	30	30
St. Louis Rams	31	31	31	31	31	31	32	32
Miami Dolphins	32	32	32	32	32	32	31	31

[Schmidty]

The Lions have no business in the top 10. They're closer to 2-5 or 3-4 than their actual record.

[Radii]

Originally Posted by Schmidty

The Lions have no business in the top 10. They're closer to 2-5 or 3-4 than their actual record.

You're probably right but I think you could say the same thing about every team ranked 9th(Tennessee) to 23rd(Chicago). I don't think any of them are playoff caliber teams, but obviously a few of them will have to make it!

[Lathum]

I am a Giants fan and I think it is a little silly the giants are ranked ahead of the chargers.

I also think it is absurd that CBS and FOX have the Colts ranked #1

[Schmidty]

Originally Posted by Radii

You're probably right but I think you could say the same thing about every team ranked 9th(Tennessee) to 23rd(Chicago). I don't think any of them are playoff caliber teams, but obviously a few of them will have to make it!

Yeah, I'll defintely take a crappy Lions team making the playoffs over a good Lions team not making the playoffs. I've suffered enough to not be picky.

[Northwood_DK]

Week 9

Team	FOF_S	ESPN	CNNSI	CBS	FOX	NBC	US T	F F
New England Patriots	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Indianapolis Colts	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Dallas Cowboys	3	3	3	4	3	3	3	3
Green Bay Packers	4	5	4	3	4	5	5	4
Pittsburgh Steelers	5	4	6	6	5	4	4	12
New York Giants	6	6	5	5	6	6	6	7
Tennessee Titans	7	7	7	7	7	7	8	5
Detroit Lions	8	8	8	8	9	8	7	6
Cleveland Browns	9	9	10	9	10	9	9	21
Jacksonville Jaguars	10	10	12	10	12	13	10	8
Tampa Bay Buc.	11	13	9	11	15	12	13	14
Washington Redskins	12	12	11	12	14	21	16	9
San Diego Chargers	13	14	13	13	11	11	14	10
New Orleans Saints	14	11	14	16	8	15	15	15
Seattle Seahawks	15	16	15	18	20	14	19	20
Kansas City Chiefs	16	15	18	14	13	16	12	22
Buffalo Bills	17	18	17	15	16	17	11	16
Baltimore Ravens	18	17	23	17	17	10	23	25
Carolina Panthers	19	19	16	19	19	23	18	18
Minnesota Vikings	20	23	21	24	18	18	21	11
Philadelphia Eagles	21	22	25	22	25	19	24	13
Houston Texans	22	20	20	23	21	20	17	19
Arizona Cardinals	23	21	24	20	24	24	20	27
Chicago Bears	24	24	22	21	23	27	22	17
Denver Broncos	25	25	19	25	22	22	27	24
Atlanta Falcons	26	28	26	26	28	25	25	23
Oakland Raiders	27	27	27	29	27	28	26	26
Cincinnati Bengals	28	26	28	28	26	26	28	28
San Francisco 49ers	29	29	29	27	30	29	29	30
New York Jets	30	30	30	30	29	30	30	29
Miami Dolphins	31	32	31	32	32	32	31	31
St. Louis Rams	32	31	32	31	31	31	32	32

[BishopMVP]

Fantasy Frontier wow... props on having being the only ones who have Minnesota and Philly up where they should be, but having Pittsburgh at 12 is ludicrous.