I know that all of you have been clamoring with the question "Where have the Grandstander Power Rankings (GPR) been in 2025?" Well, clamor no more. Through fifteen weeks, and with only three games left to play for each team, here are The Grandstander Power Rankings. I have come up with these after rigorously studying reams of analytical data and having spent countless hours watching game films for all 32 NFL teams. You can take these to the bank!
- Rams 11-3
- Bills 10-4
- Broncos 12-2
- Seahawks 11-3
- 49'ers 10-4
- Patriots 11-3
- Texans 9-5
- Bears 10-4
- Chargers 10-4
- Eagles 9-5
In other football news....
The Steelers laid down a 28-15 beatdown on the Miami Dolphins last night, and no play exemplified the nature of said beatdown more than the Aaron Rodgers-to-DK Metcalf 28 yard touchdown pass. Metcalf tossed Dolph's safety Minkah Fitzpatrick off of him in the same manner that you would brush a mosquito off of your arm as he made his way to the end zone for the score that made it 21-3 and essentially pounded the nail into the Dolphins for the night.
Rodgers had his best game of the season: 23/27, 224 yards, 2 TD, 0 INT. I am not sure how this season is going to go. I have said in this space that the Steelers aren't an especially good team, but they are in first place in the AFC North at 8-6, hold the tie-breaker with the Ravens, and will probably make the playoffs. Regardless of what happens and how it all ends up, the shot in the dark that the team took in signing Aaron Rodgers has proven to be a positive one. At times this season, he has looked every bit the 42 year old guy with his best days behind him, but he has also showed, as he did last night, that he still has greatness in him, and that he can call upon it and put on a performance that shows just why he is one of the all-time greats. He will make the Hall of Fame on the first ballot, and no, it won't be because what he did as a Steeler, but as a Steelers fan, I will be glad to be able to say that we got to see Rodgers do his thing in Black and Gold for a season.
The College Football Playoffs for 2025-26 will begin in a little more that 48 hours with two games each on Friday and Saturday. As I recall, the four opening round games in last season's CFP were all pretty much routs and had no suspense to them at all. Two of those games this weekend, James Madison @ Oregon and Tulane @ Mississippi could fall into that same pattern, but the other two games look to be good match-ups that could produce exciting and competitive contests: Alabama @ Oklahoma and Miami @ Texas A&M.
I will go with the four home teams and predict wins for the Ducks, Sooners, Rebels, and Aggies. Not sure how I will actually bet real money on any of these as yet.
There is a lot wrong with college athletics, football in particular, these days, but the advent of the twelve team playoff, the endless realignment of conferences, the transfer portal, and NIL has served to produce some great matchups on an almost weekly basis, and the Playoff last year was an exciting event and promises to be the same this year. I look forward to following the bracket right up to the Championship Game on January 19.
For what it's worth, my bracket has Georgia defeating Indiana for the title in Miami next month.
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