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Once again the league is defined by parity. There are four clear-cut favorites, more than a dozen mid-tier contenders, and only a handful of truly bad teams.
We put together our first power rankings of 2014 using a combination of past results, 2013 DVOA (an advanced stat from Football Outsiders that measure's every team's efficiency), offseason moves, and our own intuition.