NFL Power Rankings Wild Card Weekend Edition: Focus on the Pittsburgh Steelers

January 6, 2011   ·   Rob Belote   ·   Jump to comments

Doing power rankings is tough, but because of the limited number of games on an NFL schedule, it's one of the only ways to get an idea for which teams are better than others, accounting for factors other than just their records. 
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 account for a team's strength of schedule, margin of victory, good wins and bad losses.
Now that the playoffs are here, that doesn't mean the Power Rankings have to stop.  There's still the final opportunity to rank the teams who didn't make the playoffs, as well as the first of a couple more chances to rank the teams involved in the postseason bracket.
So where did the Pittsburgh Steelers rank?
As one of the playoff teams, they are definitely in the top 12.  From there, I took far more into account than just the teams' records.  I also consider how they fared against...

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