NFL Week 9 Rankings

Every week Las Vegas Sports Consultants, the world's largest oddsmaking company, releases their top polls/rankings for the major sports. They describe their polls as ones in which "teams are ranked purely by the numbers, without media, regional, league, conference or any other biases – just the facts as determined by LVSC’s team of experts." Because they use the same information that is used to make the betting lines, it is perhaps the most complete and accurate poll. We will post the updated college football poll here every Tuesday and the updated NFL rankings on Wednesdays.



Not really much surprise here. Some might have Denver higher than the boys from Vegas, but you can see the argument for the teams ahead of them. With no surprise, Cleveland checks in at the bottom of the rankings. They are a complete mess from top to bottom. Not only is the team terrible on the field, but they just fired General Manager George Kokinis after less than a year on the job. They will now be paying over $20 million to former coaches and GM's through 2011. I may not be a genius, but I am pretty sure that paying $20 million to people who no longer work for you is not the best way to run an organization. It has to make you wonder how it will affect their handling of Eric Mangini. Players do not seem to care for him, so it will be difficult to convince top free agents to join the team. They clearly do not have the personnel in place to win, but how will it get better. I can't imagine Randy Lerner will be too quick to fire Mangini who is in the first year of a four year, $12 million contract.