As we get started in November, we are now complete with Week 8. The Vikings remain atop the NFC North, but they have lost their undefeated record after a road loss to the Detroit Lions. After such a performance, we wanted to look at what others thought of their work in Week 8 on the road.

As always, with the season going on and on, we took a look at power rankings heading into Week 9. ESPN and their beat writers released the latest rankings. He ranked the Vikings 7th following their road loss to the Lions we mentioned earlier.