"Someday, this will happen. And when it does, there will be no debate about which of the league's eight divisions is the best. Until then, when we do our annual ranking of the divisions, we have a debate. In this exercise, we tend to highlight the way ESPN's Football Power Index ranks the divisions, but we don't just lean all the way into that. What would be the fun of that? Anyone can just look up the FPI and sort it from highest to lowest."
"So, given that the goal is for one division to go for 4-for-4, that's the way we've decided to do our division rankings for 2025: Rank them in order of most to least likely to put all four teams in the playoffs. This is where it drifts into the realm of opinion, which means you get to yell at me online that I'm wrong. So enjoy that."
Rankings order the NFL's eight divisions by the likelihood that all four teams will reach the postseason in 2025. The method uses ESPN's Football Power Index as a primary guide while allowing judgment beyond raw FPI numbers. No division has yet sent all four teams to the 14-team playoff field, though the AFC West, NFC North and AFC North recently placed three teams, and the NFC East narrowly missed in 2022. The NFC North leads with a combined FPI of 7.8 and, through five weeks, is the only division without a losing team; its top three clubs have positive point differentials and reached the 2024 playoffs.
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