NFL Power Rankings Week 9: Focus on The Oakland Raiders

November 4, 2010   ·   Rob Belote   ·   Jump to comments

Over at my site—www.GuysNation.com—I do a weekly power ranking of all 32 NFL teams.  It's a hugely subjective process in which I try to account for a team's strength of schedule, margin of victory, good wins and bad losses.
Where do the Oakland Raiders currently rank after eight weeks of NFL action?
I usually try not to get too excited about any one victory, even in the case of blowout wins by huge margins.  There are exceptions, though, and when a team wins a road game in their division, that says a lot.  It either says that a team underestimated an opponent who they didn't think would perform well, or the winning team finally got everything clicking.
When a team gets two lopsided victories in a row?  That's when people should definitely stand up and take notice.
In Week 7, the Raiders found themselves in the bottom quarter of my rankings, and the huge win over Denver moved them up even further.  In Week 8 agai...

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