It's with great sadness that the final Power Rankings for the regular season are completed. It marks two things. Football is now entering its Red Giant phase of the season, while expanding with their fury that only the NFL knows in the postseason, it's also the stage in a star's life just before death. As our Westeros friends tell us repeatedly, "Winter is coming."
Before the season started, it wasn't surprising to see the Bengals ranked in national power rankings with a double-digit placement and a three preceding either the zero, one or two. Seventeen weeks and sixteen games later, the Bengals were no worse than 11th. It's a season the Bengals and their fans (aka, us) can be proud of -- complacent with satisfaction? No. We want wins now. But looking back right now. Yea, damn fine job gentleman.
| Power Rankings | Placement | LW |
| SB Nation | 10th | 8th |
| ESPN's Power Rankings | 11th | 10th |
| Pete Prisco (CBSSports.com) | 11th | 11th |
| NFL.com | 11th | 10th |
| Pro Football Talk | 10th | 8th |
| Brian Billick (FoxSports) | N/A | 10th |
| Your Heart | 1st | 1st |
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just as long as we are #1 in february ;-)
bengalinflorida - January 4, 2012
Only true Power Ranking I care about.........
The Van Buren Boys - January 4, 2012
Would be interesting
To have a start of the season column on the PR
Robert Wright - January 4, 2012
here you go
http://i.imgur.com/nu8uu.png
supergrover - January 4, 2012
lol
that is hilarious……this is a snapshot of the mind of a sports analyst…..perfect
ticalcaldwell - January 4, 2012
this shows that there is no method to any of the analysts....
ticalcaldwell - January 4, 2012
this will look like my heart rate on saturday.
bengalinflorida - January 4, 2012
+1
ticalcaldwell - January 4, 2012
An "EKG" prinout for the average Bengals fan, right around the 4pm mark each Sunday....
The Van Buren Boys - January 4, 2012
*printout
The Van Buren Boys - January 4, 2012
lol...this was mine during about 8 games this year...mostly the Texans game and the Cardinals game
ticalcaldwell - January 4, 2012
"Winter is coming"
The sad tragic end of football for several months…
And they couldn’t bring us the 2nd season of Game of Thrones to help hold us over until April 2012, which is draft time.
Oregonbengalsfan - January 4, 2012
Meaning that the 2nd season premiere's
April 2012 also
Oregonbengalsfan - January 4, 2012
I heard it was good, I have to check it out... :)
Unbeliever - January 4, 2012
Walking Dead starts after the Superbowl!!!
Dwight Carter - January 4, 2012
WHOOOO!!!
Let’s put ’em in the barn!
supergrover - January 5, 2012
Ok
I survived the write ups and have lived to tell the tail lol. Can’t wait to hear what they write up next week after a win. Should go a lil something like, “They finally beat a playoff team at the right time just against a 3rd string QB, 1 out of 7 isn’t bad???”
Dwight Carter - January 4, 2012
Don't delude yourself... ;)
They will still talk trash about the Bengals. They will still say we did not beat anyone, and we only beat a team with an injured 3rd string quarterback…blah..blah..blah…they hate of the Bengals knows no ends….
Unbeliever - January 4, 2012
I try to stay optimistic but...
Seems like when everybody hates them they do better so will see!
Dwight Carter - January 4, 2012
Very true
It does seem that this team feeds on the negative press.
Bigcatdaddy - January 4, 2012 via Android app
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