Jordan Love converted a pair of fourth downs with touchdown passes in the first half and finished with a career-high-matching four TD throws, leading the Green Bay Packers to a 31-24 win over the Detroit Lions on Thursday. The Packers (8-3-1) swept the season series to earn a potential tiebreaker in the NFC North and are in second place in the division behind Chicago (8-3), who play at Philadelphia on Friday.
Someday, this will happen. And when it does, there will be no debate about which of the league's eight divisions is the best. Until then, when we do our annual ranking of the divisions, we have a debate. In this exercise, we tend to highlight the way ESPN's Football Power Index ranks the divisions, but we don't just lean all the way into that. What would be the fun of that? Anyone can just look up the FPI and sort it from highest to lowest.
