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IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT WITH GRANT NAPEAR

Grant's Rant: 12-22-21 Power Rankings?

IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT WITH GRANT NAPEAR

Grant Napear

Football, Sports, Basketball

4.7944 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Why are there power rankings in sports?  What is the purpose?  Isn't that why we have standings?  I have never understood the reason behind power rankings.  Is that how we will determine the NFL Playoff participants....Just go by power rankings?  Stupid!!!!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:32.0

Got a question for you. Why do we have power rankings in

0:36.4

sports? Like what is the purpose of a MBA power ranking or the NFL power

0:42.2

rankings every week? I mean isn't that what we have power rankings

0:43.0

every week. I mean isn't that what we have standings for?

0:46.0

standings are the power rankings, right?

0:49.0

Power rankings. What's the purpose of it?

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Like who came up with that? Like why? Is that how we're going to

0:55.0

determine who's in the NFL playoffs next month? We're going to look at

0:58.8

somebody's power rankings? Like when you really get down to it, what's the purpose of it to make you feel good

1:04.7

if you see your team near the top of the power rankings even though they may not be at the

1:08.8

top of your division yeah right like what the hell good is that? That's why you have standings. I've never understood this. Drives me crazy. And yet every time I go online, every time I go to my favorite sports website, I'm looking at power rankings.

1:23.0

Different people's opinions of power rankings.

1:26.0

That's why you have the freaking standings, okay?

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I don't understand it.

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