This is an objective, unbiased ranking in the same vein as the NFL Title Belt. As such, the number 1 ranked team will always be the same as the current NFL Title Belt holder.
This is Week 7 of the NFL Title Rankings of the 2025 season. See here for last week’s results.
7 of the 15 games ended with the lower ranked team winning. The largest jump was the Lions who jumped 16 spots after they beat the Bucs. For the second week in a row, the Panthers are the lowest ranked team to win their game. 3 different teams jumped another team, but didn’t increase their rank.
The Seahawks beat the Texans to keep the NFL Title Belt and first ranking. The Seahawks will keep the title belt for week 8 since they have a bye week.
The Jets lost to the Panthers to remain last. They will have a chance to move out of last next week when they play the Bengals.
Let me know if you’d like to see more of this, if you’re curious about how I came up with these rankings, or if you noticed any mistakes.
| Ranking | 2025 Wk7 | Δ | Notes | |
| 1 | Seahawks | – | The Seahawks beat the Texans to keep first and the NFL Title Belt. | |
| 2 | Rams | +6 | The Rams jumped 6 spots by beating the Jaguars. | |
| 3 | Jaguars | -1 | ||
| 4 | Lions | +16 | The Lions jumped 16 spots by beating the Bucs. | |
| 5 | Bucs | -2 | ||
| 6 | 49ers | -2 | ||
| 7 | Broncos | -2 | ||
| 8 | Giants | -2 | ||
| 9 | Eagles | -2 | ||
| 10 | Patriots | -1 | ||
| 11 | Bears | – | The Bears maintained their rank by beating and jumping the Saints. | |
| 12 | Saints | -2 | ||
| 13 | Cowboys | +14 | The Cowboys jumped 14 spots by beating the Commanders. | |
| 14 | Commanders | -2 | ||
| 15 | Colts | – | The Colts maintained their rank by beating and jumping the Chargers. | |
| 16 | Chargers | -3 | ||
| 17 | Falcons | -3 | ||
| 18 | Chiefs | – | The Chiefs maintained their rank by beating and jumping the Raiders. | |
| 19 | Raiders | -3 | ||
| 20 | Bengals | +10 | The Bengals jumped 10 spots by beating the Steelers. | |
| 21 | Steelers | -4 | ||
| 22 | Bills | -3 | ||
| 23 | Vikings | -2 | ||
| 24 | Browns | -2 | ||
| 25 | Packers | -2 | ||
| 26 | Texans | -2 | ||
| 27 | Ravens | -2 | ||
| 28 | Panthers | – | ||
| 29 | Titans | – | ||
| 30 | Cardinals | – | ||
| 31 | Dolphins | – | ||
| 32 | Jets | – | The Jets lost to the Panthers to remain last. |
This ranking assumes that there are never any fluke games and all teams are appropriately ranked. If you beat a team that is higher ranked than you, you move ahead of them and they move down one spot. However, other teams can jump in front of teams that are higher ranked than you, moving you further down the rankings.
New to this system - is the idea that you start with the results from last season and go from there? So SB champ is the title holder and if you beat them you take their place, right?
Close. It does carry over from last season and teams jump whomever they beat. But since the title holder missed the playoffs last season, the SB champ never got to take the title.
Here is the site that gave me the inspiration. Although they haven’t updated it since week 4.
https://thetitlebelt.com/
Ah gotcha, so a team can win the SB but that doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with the title. How’d they figure out who originally had the title?
Usually the title holder will make the playoffs and it’ll end up with the Super Bowl winner. But yeah, it doesn’t have to.
I believe it started with the first Super Bowl winner. So the first champion. But if every team started out with a trophy (or land if you’re following the imperialism maps) it will usually narrow to one owner in a season or two as good teams make the playoffs.