With the presence of the defending Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers, and the emergence of the Detroit Lions, the Chicago Bears and Minnesota Vikings both find themselves looking up in the suddenly stacked NFC North.
When the New England Patriots fell to the Cleveland Browns in one of the most surprising results of last year’s regular season, it was simply an aberration for a team that went on to win 14 games and clinch the best record in the NFL.
This is a great matchup between the two most pleasant surprises in the league this season. San Francisco had absolutely no letdown last Sunday after coming back to beat Philadelphia the previous week. They destroyed a pretty good Tampa Bay team, winning by their largest margin since 1987 I believe.
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Each week, Dave B will compile a list of Hot and Not Hot players based on their past performances and future matchups.
Each week during the heart of the NFL season, and once or twice during the NFL Preseason, we’ll gather the troops around the roundtable and hash out the NFL Power rankings. We check out the stats, looks at the records, and, most importantly, we take a close, close look at the heart of each team.
With another week of byes slated to take place in Week 6, the Waiver Wire becomes even more important. Those who grabbed and started Doug Baldwin or Victor Cruz last week were undoubtedly very happy. So who is this week’s Victor Cruz?
The Bears got back to winning last week, taking a close one against rookie sensation Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers. It was somewhat of a stunning result given they were beaten big time in the stats.
Tennessee is the most pleasant surprise in the NFL season in my books. I thought this was a team that might win 6 games this year and heading into week 5 they are already half way to that total. Included among them was a victory over the Baltimore Ravens by 13 points, a Ravens team that beat Pittsburgh by 28 in week 1.
When Arizona State takes on Utah this weekend, the Pac-12 South Division championship will be on the minds of fans, players and coaches. USC is ineligible for the title due to a two-year postseason ban.
The Boise State Broncos and the Fresno State Bulldogs have battled each other over the past decade as members of the Western Athletic Conference. However, Boise’s move to the Mountain West Conference has caused the 2011 edition of this regional matchup to become a non-conference affair.
The Boston College Eagles will be looking for their first conference win of the season when they take on the Clemson Tigers in an ACC-Atlantic Division matchup this upcoming Saturday afternoon. The game is slated to kick-off at 3 p.m. and it will be available on ESPN3.com.
The Connecticut Huskies open-up their conference play in the Big East against the West Virginia Mountaineers this upcoming Saturday afternoon at Mountaineers Field in Morgantown. Kick-off is scheduled for 12 p.m. and the game will be available on ESPN3.com.
A battle of underachieving Western Conference teams comes our way from Vancouver on Friday night when the struggling Rough Riders meet the winless Lions.
The Montreal Alouettes still have no definitive word on whether or not Anthony Calvillo will start their Friday Night Football matchup in Hamilton on Friday night – my guess is that he will play!
The action is heating up in the Canadian Football League, as this week marks a third of the regular season being finished. The Eskimos continue to control the board, as they’re still tops on the Week 6 CFL power rankings.
