NFL Week 8 power rankings

By Rick Morris

NOTE: Previous rankings in parentheses, from Week 1 to present.

TOP TIER

1 New Orleans (10-6-8-3-3-2-2)

2 Denver (4-3-2-2-2-1-1)

3 Seattle (2-2-1-1-1-3-3)

4 San Francisco (1-1-4-7-5-4-4)

5 Kansas City (25-18-12-11-6-6-5)

6 Indianapolis (15-15-15-12-9-5-7)

SECOND TIER

7 Cincinnati (8-10-10-5-10-8-8)

8 Green Bay (7-8-5-8-8-9-9)

9 New England (5-5-6-6-4-7-6)

THIRD TIER

10 Dallas (14-11-13-13-15-15-14)

11 Chicago (11-9-9-4-7-10-10)

12 Detroit (19-19-21-17-14-14-11)

13 Tennessee (30-25-22-16-12-13-13)

14 Miami (24-17-11-9-11-12-12)

FOURTH TIER

15 Carolina (21-21-23-20-20-21-18)

16 Buffalo (27-26-20-23-19-22-22)

17 San Diego (23-23-18-18-17-20-16)

18 Baltimore (9-13-14-10-13-11-15)

19 New York Jets (29-27-28-21-25-18-23)

20 St. Louis (16-16-19-19-23-23-17)

21 Houston (3-4-3-15-16-16-20)

22 Philadelphia (17-14-17-22-26-24-19)

23 Washington (18-20-24-25-24-25-25)

24 Arizona (28-29-26-26-22-19-24)

25 Atlanta (6-7-7-14-18-26-26)

26 Cleveland (26-31-31-24-21-17-21)

27 Pittsburgh (12-24-27-28-29-29-28)

28 Oakland (32-30-30-30-30-27-27)

29 New York Giants (13-12-16-27-28-30-29)

FIFTH TIER

30 Minnesota (22-22-25-29-27-28-30)

31 Tampa Bay (20-28-29-31-31-31-31)

SIXTH TIER

32 Jacksonville (31-32-32-32-32-32-32)

BIGGEST RISERS: Buffalo (6 spots), Dallas and New York Jets (4 spots), Carolina (3 spots)

BIGGEST FALLERS: Cleveland (5 spots), Baltimore, New England, Philadelphia and St. Louis (3 spots)

RANKINGS BY DIVISION – 1 POINT PER RANKING SPOT FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL TEAM, LOWEST SCORE IS BEST

1 NFC West 51

2 AFC West 52

3 AFC East 58

4 NFC North 61

5T AFC South 72

5T NFC South 72

7 AFC North 78

8 NFC East 84

RANKINGS BY CONFERENCE

1 AFC 260

2 NFC 268