We’ve been getting our Power Rankings Roundup out on Tuesdays in recent weeks Anthony Barr Jersey , but real-life events forced me to move it back to today. In any case, the Minnesota Vikings are still coming off an impressive victory last week over the Detroit Lions and are now well into their bye week. How did the team’s first divisional win of the season affect their standing with the pollsters around the interwebs? Let’s take a look in this week’s Power Rankings Roundup!Associated Press: #8 (Last week: #9)No Vikings-centric commentary from the AP this week.Walter Cherepinsky, Walter Football: #12 (Last week: #13)Nothing new from Walter Football this week.SB Nation: #11 (Last week: #13)Bleacher Report: #8 (Last week: #9)Frank Schwab, Yahoo! Sports: #8 (Last week: #8)Mike Florio, Pro Football Talk: #8 (Last week: #9)The MMQB, Sports Illustrated: #8 (Last week: #9)ESPN: #8 (Last week: #8)Vinnie Iyer, Sporting News: #8 (Last week: #9)Elliot Harrison, NFL.com: #8 (Last week: #8)USA Today: #8 (Last week: #9)Pete Prisco, CBS Sports: #8 (Last week: #9)Well, nine was the magic number last week for the Vikings, and this week the big number is eight. As in Everson Griffen Jersey , ten of the twelve sets of rankings we bring together to do our Roundup put the Vikings as the eighth-best team in the National Football League. The only two outliers were the folks from the mothership (#11) and Walter Football (#12).Nine of the twelve sets of rankings we use moved the Vikings up this week, while three of them held the Vikings steady at their previous spot. As a result, the average position for the Vikings went up almost a full spot, from 9.42 last week to 8.58 this week.Here is your graphical representation of the rankings for the Vikings thus far. It still isn’t back to the lofty heights it was earlier in the season, but it’s getting closer.Barring a rash of upsets of the teams above the Vikings in the rankings, I wouldn’t expect them to move too much because of the bye this week. But, I suppose stranger things have happened, so we’ll see how it goes when we’re back here for next week’s Roundup. Well, this is it, folks. In just a few hours, the 2018-19 NFL season will be completely over and done with. There’s still one more game to go Kyle Rudolph Jersey , however, and it’s the biggest one of them all.Live from Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, it’s Super Bowl LIII, featuring the New England Patriots, champions of the AFC, taking on the NFC Champions, the Los Angeles Rams.Both of these teams have played two playoff games thus far, with each winning their first game at home before going on the road to win their second game. For New England, they got started by blowing out the Los Angeles Chargers by a score of 41-28, and then going into Arrowhead Stadium to knock off the Kansas City Chiefs in overtime, 37-31. For the Rams Linval Joseph Jersey , they defeated the Dallas Cowboys in the Divisional round by a final tally of 30-22, and then went to New Orleans, where they thoroughly outplayed the Saints en route to a completely legitimate 26-23 overtime victory.This is the ninth Super Bowl for the Patriots in the era of Bill Belichick and Tom Brady, and the third year in a row they’ve represented the AFC in the final game. On the other hand, the Rams are making their first appearance in the big game since February of 2002, when they played. . .the New England Patriots. The Patriots won that one in the game that really kickstarted their era of dominance, defeating the Greatest Show on Turf by a final score of 20-17.We are less than half an hour from kickoff in Atlanta, folks. Consider this your Open Thread for today’s festivities, and enjoy the game as much as you can enjoy any football game that doesn’t involve the Minnesota Vikings.
