NFL Week 9 power rankings

By Rick Morris

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

TOP TIER

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

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

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

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

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

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

SECOND TIER

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

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

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

THIRD TIER

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

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

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

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

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

FOURTH TIER

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FIFTH TIER

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

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

SIXTH TIER

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

BIGGEST RISERS: Arizona (6 spots), New York Giants and Oakland (5 spots)

BIGGEST FALLERS: Philadelphia (4 spots), Buffalo and New York Jets (3 spots)

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

1 AFC West 45

2 NFC West 46

3 NFC North 59

4 AFC East 67

5 AFC South 71

6 NFC South 73

7 AFC North 83

8 NFC East 87

RANKINGS BY CONFERENCE

1 NFC 265

2 AFC 266