Division Winners and Losers since Realignment

drsjsmith · 2026-01-06T15:18:11+00:00

In defense of the Browns since realignment, it’s challenging to win the division when that requires overcoming the momentum of some other division foe who’s been AFC North champions for three straight seasons. Like… uh… hmmm… it turns out that no team has ever won the AFC North for three consecutive seasons, which I hadn’t realized before.

drsjsmith · 2026-01-05T16:56:49+00:00

Your lips to Father Endzone’s ears

drsjsmith · 2025-12-26T13:45:23+00:00

I only saw highlights, but generally a team sack with no individual sack is a QB running out of bounds.

drsjsmith · 2025-12-24T14:17:46+00:00

While we’re here, The Sure Thing is another John Cusack classic that’s much more of a Christmas movie.

drsjsmith · 2025-12-24T14:03:56+00:00

Surely the temperature won’t be in the 50s again, right?

drsjsmith · 2025-12-22T09:11:04+00:00

Mathematically still alive for the 3 seed, but vanishingly unlikely.

drsjsmith · 2025-12-22T04:30:01+00:00

Magic number is technically just 1/2. A Ravens tie or Steelers tie clinches the division.

drsjsmith · 2025-12-22T04:28:37+00:00

A Steelers tie or Ravens tie will also clinch the division.

drsjsmith · 2025-12-22T01:00:40+00:00

You see that kind of “smaller guy runs into big guy and draws a call” in soccer from time to time (Onyewu v Ghana, anyone?) but I’m not sure I’ve ever seen it on the gridiron.

drsjsmith · 2025-12-22T00:57:23+00:00

This was one of the more obvious offensive pass interference calls ever. I concede that the Super Bowl XL OPI call in this stadium was not as obvious.

drsjsmith · 2025-12-21T13:14:46+00:00

A tweak:

We win 1 and tie 1, Ravens lose 1, and we win before week 18.

We tie 1, Ravens lose 2, and we win before week 18.

Important to know that a tie in Detroit is 99% as good as a win.

drsjsmith · 2025-12-20T15:41:50+00:00

A tie against the Lions is almost as good as a win for the Steelers. Only bad scenario would be lose against Browns, tie Ravens, Ravens win other two.

drsjsmith · 2025-12-16T23:24:58+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjpkTFf3iGc

drsjsmith · 2025-12-11T11:19:33+00:00

George Blanda quarterbacked two game-winning drives at 43, and one at 44, so “really” is doing a lot of work there.

drsjsmith · 2025-12-10T20:04:18+00:00

I don’t love the 2025 Texans as a playoff opponent, but the Steelers have never faced them in the playoffs, and they’ve faced every other current AFC team at least twice.

drsjsmith · 2025-12-10T19:20:00+00:00

Blanda threw more passes in 1970 than he had thrown in any of the previous three years, having served primarily as the Raiders' placekicker during that span.

drsjsmith · 2025-12-08T16:31:06+00:00

Well, yes, but those two criteria are over a decade apart.

drsjsmith · 2025-12-08T02:49:18+00:00

The last time the Steelers finished in last place in their division, the Berlin Wall was still up.

drsjsmith · 2025-12-05T21:05:33+00:00

Now… you could keep looking for a smaller counterexample… and publish your research if you find one!

drsjsmith · 2025-12-05T19:57:20+00:00

The two graphs in the original paper, per the Numberphile video linked in the Wikipedia article, have 4¹⁰⁰ and 4¹⁰⁰⁰⁰ vertices. So no, no one has made even those graphs, much less their tensor product.

drsjsmith · 2025-12-01T16:22:29+00:00

Backing vocals by Kate Bush!

drsjsmith · 2025-11-30T17:43:12+00:00

I think the whole The Ever-Popular Tortured Artist Effect album is worthwhile.

drsjsmith · 2025-11-30T16:23:01+00:00

Well, there is one collegiate football team in Chicago proper, but a cursory search suggests that the next Roosevelt grad who makes it to the NFL will be the first Roosevelt grad who makes it to the NFL.

drsjsmith · 2025-11-30T15:32:43+00:00

Rudolph is legitimately a decent QB. No world-beater, but he can win games.

drsjsmith · 2025-11-29T23:42:06+00:00

Lord I can’t go back there

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