The Divisional Playoffs are all wrapped up, and with the rankings predicting both winners correctly yesterday (and improving to 5-1 overall), it was 0/2 today and now 5-3 overall. With the AFC South looking so strong all season, the 3 playoff teams’ collapse in the playoffs was something the rankings couldn’t predict. So now we head into the conference championship games. The AFC Championship is the #4 Chargers at the #1 Patriots. The Chargers jumped another spot this week by knocking off the Colts and passed the Jaguars, but still sit behind the Colts in the ranks (oops). The Patriots have the biggest hold on the #1 spot that any team has all season, and it shows. The NFC title game is the #6 Giants at the #2 Packers. The Giants pulled off the power rank upset this week, but maybe the rankings sort of saw it coming with the #1 seeded Cowboys only being ranked #6 heading into this week. The rankings can’t totally reflect the Giants heroic near win against New England and the loss hurt them, but now their 2 impressive playoff wins jumped them up 6 spots all the way up to #6 after this week. The Packers have been the top NFC team for the past couple of weeks and the Colts loss helped them move into the#2 overall spot this week. Here are the complete ranks…
1. Patriots – 84.28 – E – vs. SD
2. Packers – 73.61 – +1 – vs. NYG
3. Colts – 73.01 – -1
4. Chargers – 71.05 – +1 – at NE
5. Jaguars – 64.80 – -1
6. Giants – 63.52 – +6 – at GB
7. Titans – 61.78 – E
8. Eagles – 61.38 – E
9. Redskins – 60.49 – E
10. Cowboys – 60.30 – -4
11. Browns – 58.92 – E
12. Texans – 58.92 – -2
13. Seahawks – 54.57 – E
14. Vikings – 53.16 – E
15. Bengals – 52.30 – E
16. Steelers – 52.27 – E
17. Bears – 49.23 – E
18. Buccaneers – 47.96 – +1
19. Cardinals – 47.62 – -1
20. Panthers – 44.62 – E
21. Saints – 42.95 – E
22. Broncos – 41.65 – E
23. Lions – 39.33 – E
24. Bills – 37.01 – E
25. 49ers – 36.34 – E
26. Ravens – 34.30 – E
27. Jets – 31.50 – E
28. Falcons – 26.72 – E
29. Raiders – 25.79 – E
30. Chiefs – 24.73 – E
31. Dolphins – 23.41 – E
32. Rams – 21.27 – E
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