Week 10 Power Rankings

Seven weeks left in the NFL's regular season, but there may not be a ton of suspense remaining. Sorry to break it to you. The playoff field looks pretty well set, even this far out. In the AFC, there are only six teams that have winning records through the first 10 weeks of the season, and my call is they all make the postseason: No. 1 seed Houston, followed by Baltimore, New England, Denver, Indianapolis and Pittsburgh.

In the NFC, the picture doesn't feature quite so much clarity, but it's close. At the moment there are eight clubs with winning records, with only Minnesota (6-4) and Tampa Bay (5-4) left out of the six-team playoff field if the postseason opened today. That means the pecking order in the NFC would be Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco, New York, Green Bay and Seattle. Add it all up, and nine of the 12 playoff qualifiers would be repeaters from 2011, giving the league's postseason its most status quo look in a long, long while.

At least that's how it appears from the vantage point of mid-November. But we'll watch anyway, won't we? It's the NFL. Nobody really knows anything for sure, and if they tell you they do, they're lying. Now on to this week's rankings...

NFL Power Rankings