His'n's purely mathematical power rankings - Week 6.

I've been using, and constantly tweaking, a power ranking formula for the past few years to help me in my office pool. Basically I wanted to help myself look past the record and reputation of a team and place a little more value on the strength of their opponents.

Using a formula that is probably approaching BCS complexity, sheer ridiculousness and inaccuracies, I share it here for your amusement as well as collective scorn and ridicule.

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As far as I'm concerned there is no true #1 team in football yet this year. The Titans at 5-0 may earn that spot by default in many opinion polls, but they still have the second easiest schedule so far as their opponents are a combined 9-19 (.321) and they have yet to beat a team over .500. The Giants have the easiest so far at 8-19 (.296)

The hardest schedule so far? The Jacksonville Jaguars whose opponents are a combined 21-10. And the 3 teams they've lost to are a combined 13-2 which is why they get the 8th place ranking despite being 3-3.

The biggest drop this week, down 9 places, is Miami due to losing to 1-4 Houston. And the biggest gainer is Jacksonville who move up 12 places in large part because of beating now 4-2 Denver and because previous opponents Indy and Houston won this past week.

Included this week is the "power points" each team has earned this year based on who they've beaten, when, who they've lost to, and whether or not they've covered the spread. In () is last week's ranking. Enjoy.

1 Arizona Cardinals 8.660 (6)
2 Tampa Bay Buccaneers 8.600 (8)
3 Tennessee Titans 8.450 (2)
4 Washington Redskins 8.100 (1)
5 Carolina Panthers 6.750 (3)
6 Pittsburgh Steelers 6.050 (9)
7 Atlanta Falcons 6.033 (14)
8 Jacksonville Jaguars 5.987 (20)
9 New York Giants 5.583 (4)
10 Buffalo Bills 5.550 (10)
11 Denver Broncos 5.550 (5)
12 Dallas Cowboys 5.400 (7)
13 Philadelphia Eagles 5.010 (16)
14 San Diego Chargers 4.723 (21)
15 Minnesota Vikings 4.450 (15)
16 New Orleans Saints 4.417 (18)
17 New York Jets 4.333 (17)
18 Chicago Bears 4.003 (12)
19 New England Patriots 3.903 (11)
20 Indianapolis Colts 3.750 (22)
21 Green Bay Packers 3.117 (23)
22 Miami Dolphins 2.670 (13)
23 Baltimore Ravens 2.250 (19)
24 Cleveland Browns 1.910 (28)
25 St. Louis Rams 0.633 (31)
26 Kansas City Chiefs 0.433 (24)
27 Houston Texans 0.400 (30)
28 San Francisco 49ers 0.100 (25)
29 Oakland Raiders -0.600 (26)
30 Seattle Seahawks -0.900 (27)
31 Cincinnatti Bengals -2.700 (29)
32 Detroit Lions -3.500 (32)