Rich Eisen’s NFL Power Rankings: The 2026 Season’s Most Anticipated Games

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:03]THIS IS MY POWER RANKINGS. THERE ARE MANY like it, but this ONE IS MINE.

[00:00:08]POWER RANKINGS.

[00:00:09]>> All right, here we go. Power Rankings of the NFL schedule presented by SoFi.

[00:00:13]There's more than 10 games on here. I'm not going to lie.

[00:00:15]>> [laughter] >> Uh certainly when you start through 10, number 10 on the list everybody uh is when the Bucks and Falcons play each other twice. Ooh. I don't care which one.

[00:00:24]Really?

[00:00:25]>> Oh, yes. Bucks and the >> I got I got to give some love to the NFC South, guys. Why? Why? I got to give some >> [laughter] >> love to it. Um um cuz we all know, I mean, Baker um quotes um tweeted out on January 20th after Stefanski got hired by Atlanta, quote, "Still waiting on a text call from him after I got shipped off like a piece of garbage. Can't wait to see you twice a year, coach." I said two. How about that? Mhm.

[00:00:54]How about that? So, Baker versus uh um Atlanta and Stefanski. Kind of dig it. It's fun.

[00:01:00]>> number nine on the list, week three Monday Night Football Eagles at Bears.

[00:01:05][music] Don't forget what the Bears did in Philadelphia last year day after Thanksgiving. They punked the Eagles.

[00:01:13]>> Yeah, that was awesome.

[00:01:13]>> in their house. Punked them.

[00:01:16]So, what happens week three?

[00:01:18]Okay?

[00:01:19]And we just play the win-loss game for the Philadelphia Eagles. They're home for Washington. They're at Tennessee, and then they've got this game in Chicago.

[00:01:27]Here we go. Chicago starting off at Carolina, home for Minnesota, then this one.

[00:01:33]It's going to be big. It's going to be a marker for either one of these teams.

[00:01:35]Number eight.

[00:01:37]Week 18. I have no idea if this is going to be Aaron Rodgers' last regular season game of his career, last game of his career. I do not know, but Steelers at Ravens maybe for the entire NFC AFC North shooting match, and I can't wait for [music] it. This is a week 18 game, Steelers at Ravens. I didn't choose the Ravens at Steelers. I chose this one.

[00:01:59]Because it could be for all of the Rodgers marbles, all of the AFC North marbles, number seven.

[00:02:05]Week six Monday night football.

[00:02:07]It's Micah's old team coming back to Green Bay. It's Rashan Gary coming back to Green Bay. Kenny Clark coming back to Green Bay. Will Micah be healthy? Maybe this is one of those games where he'll be back.

[00:02:20]Maybe he comes back just for it. I don't know.

[00:02:23]But Cowboys Packers old school stuff at week six Monday night football seventh on the list. Number six on the list is Seattle at San Francisco and I'm choosing week 12.

[00:02:34]Because the Thanksgiving lineup is so loaded with five games before the weekend.

[00:02:39]That you're wondering what's left on the schedule >> [laughter] >> and if week 12 is just one big stinking on ice for the rest of us to sit there on Sunday cuz the league loaded up everything at the beginning of the week. This is a big game. Another one is Ravens at Houston. So those are big Sunday games. This one in particular Seattle at San Francisco. Last time this happened the one seed was on the line and Seattle punked the 49ers.

[00:03:04]So that's a big one. Number five on the list Ravens at Bills week eight right there in the middle of the season. Lamar at Josh Allen. Let's go.

[00:03:14]Fun.

[00:03:15]Fun stuff. I can't wait to see it. Um the pressure bowl Rockman. Say that again. The under pressure bowl. Oh, that's a good one. Oh, that's a Sunday 1:00.

[00:03:24]Yeah. Bills are coming off of a bye in that regard as well. Number four I put this one here just cuz again it's a Super Bowl rematch. I already said earlier that I I was disappointed it's not Bears at uh Yeah. at Seattle but it is the opening Thursday night banner raised 12s going crazy. It could be AJ Brown's first game as a Patriot. Drake May there. Let's go. Can't wait. Week one. Number three on the list is I think the better game.

[00:03:47]And it's it's in Australia.

[00:03:50]I think you know, San Francisco and the Rams, let's go.

[00:03:54]NFC West football This could be one of I mean this is a big one for the Rams because this is their home game against San Francisco or as San Francisco might point out, they lost a home game because it's not being played in SoFi.

[00:04:06]Number two on this list, I don't care if it's a cop out or not. I can't choose one for the entirety of this thing.

[00:04:12]>> COME ON.

[00:04:13]PICK ONE.

[00:04:14]>> I MEAN IF I HAD TO PICK ONE, IT'S CHIEFS-BILLS. If I had to pick one it's Chiefs-Bills.

[00:04:19]But Packers-Rams-Bears-Lions-Eagles-Cowboys-Chiefs-Bills-Broncos-Steelers Eagles-Cowboys With all due respect everyone else, if everybody's healthy, these are massive games.

[00:04:30]Massive. But the number one is is the is the Christmas games. The Christmas slate games.

[00:04:35]>> All of them?

[00:04:36]>> Are How can you just Packers-Bears?

[00:04:39]Buffalo-Denver Rams-Seattle. Last time the Rams were in Seattle, we all know what happened.

[00:04:46]The two-point conversion, all that craziness. Yeah. That's going to be nuts. Christmas.

[00:04:53]Unbelievable that triple header.

[00:04:56]And those are my power rankings of the NFL schedule brought to you by SoFi.

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[00:05:02]Back for hour two and Tim Legler on the NBA playoffs.

[00:05:07]You think we need one more? I don't have one. Oh, I don't have any. I gave I gave you literally number two was five games, number one was three games.

[00:05:16]Also, New England-Seattle is Wednesday.

[00:05:17]That starts the season. Oh, that's right. Pardon me. New England-Seattle is Wednesday and then the other one, right?

[00:05:22]Yeah. It'll be Thursday night here, but as we figured out Melbourne is 17 hours ahead of us.

[00:05:28]>> Right, right, right, right. So that's Friday morning in Melbourne and but Thursday night here.

[00:05:31]>> Yes, I understand that.

[00:05:33]But It took a while to figure that out.

[00:05:34]>> Well, we we could have done it. I I inadvertently said the better game is the is the is game two, I think.

[00:05:40]With all due respect, man. Yeah. But Dude, like Thanksgiving I mean is amazing. Woo.

[00:05:48]And the league clearly just decided that we don't want to spend time with our families. Well, I mean, but but it's it's like let's >> [laughter] >> let's launch it.

[00:05:58]Let's get it done. Let's go ahead and launch it. Are you down with like the Wednesday games this year and uh Listen.

[00:06:04]You know what I mean?

[00:06:05]>> I understand it's it's it's going to be tough to figure out well, it's Wednesday and it it's on Netflix and then the next days are CBS, Fox and Peacock and then Prime Video and I know fans are there's some people just won't pay for streaming or they think streaming is less than or whatever.

[00:06:21]Uh obviously, as we sit here on Disney Plus and the ESPN app, we are pro streamers here. Certainly coming off of our three-year run on Roku after >> Oh, I don't even I don't I just mean No, so >> games on every day of the week basically.

[00:06:37]Okay.

[00:06:38]I mean, less is more. Um it's still the same. It's what what what you know, make us >> So, why not sit there on a Wednesday night? So, what you'd rather that Packers-Rams game be thrown on a Sunday?

[00:06:48]So, you're watching it amongst everything else? I mean >> Come Friday double header. I mean, I'm just saying, you know.

[00:06:53]I like the Thanksgiving Eve. I like it I like a couple days without football to make me be like, man, I miss football.

[00:06:58]>> No, I want some football. I miss some football. No, I understand like on my schedule, color-coded schedule here, there's a column there's a Sunday color code and the color codes for Sunday Night Football, Monday Night Football, Thursday Night Football, International Games, Thanksgiving Eve, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, that's week 15 Saturday, Christmas Day and week 16-17 Saturday-Sunday. It's a lot. It's a lot of colors. Yeah, a lot of colors.

[00:07:20]>> It's more than more than the colors here than the rainbow. Hey, you made it all the way to the end. Thanks for that.

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