NFL Power Rankings: Week 4 Conference Standings and Latest Super Bowl Odds

Las Vegas has once again protected itself by updating Super Bowl odds heading into Week 4.

For those bettors with enough foresight, though, the lines worth a look and the ones to avoid aren't so hard to figure out. There's a major difference between a value pick with a strong payout still featuring enough juice to contend and a team with similar odds sitting in an 0-3 hole.

The odds also give a nice look at league standings, just one tool in a sea of many to help arrange power rankings.

Below, let's do a little bit of everything by forming rankings based on results to date while also examining how Las Vegas feels about each team's chance at hoisting the Lombardi Trophy.

Week 4 NFL Power Rankings and 2015-16 Super Bowl Odds

Rank	Team	SB Odds
1	New England Patriots	4-1
2	Green Bay Packers	13-4
3	Cincinnati Bengals	14-1
4	Denver Broncos	9-1
5	Arizona Cardinals	9-1
6	Seattle Seahawks	8-1
7	Buffalo Bills	28-1
8	Atlanta Falcons	25-1
9	Dallas Cowboys	33-1
10	Carolina Panthers	28-1
11	Pittsburgh Steelers	33-1
12	Philadelphia Eagles	25-1
13	New York Jets	66-1
14	Indianapolis Colts	20-1
15	Kansas City Chiefs	33-1
16	Minnesota Vikings	28-1
17	San Diego Chargers	75-1
18	Detroit Lions	200-1
19	New York Giants	40-1
20	Miami Dolphins	66-1
21	Baltimore Ravens	75-1
22	Tennessee Titans	150-1
23	Houston Texans	100-1
24	St. Louis Rams	150-1
25	Oakland Raiders	66-1
26	San Francisco 49ers	200-1
27	Cleveland Browns	300-1
28	Chicago Bears	500-1
29	Jacksonville Jaguars	500-1
30	Washington	200-1
31	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	200-1
32	New Orleans Saints	200-1

Odds courtesy of Odds Shark.

Conference Standings

AFC	Div	W	L
NFC	Div	W	L
New England Patriots	ACE	3	0
Cincinnati Bengals	ACN	3	0
Denver Broncos	ACW	3	0
New York Jets	ACE	2	1
Buffalo Bills	ACE	2	1
Oakland Raiders	ACW	2	1
Pittsburgh Steelers	ACN	2	1
Indianapolis Colts	ACS	1	2
Jacksonville Jaguars	ACS	1	2
Cleveland Browns	ACN	1	2
Houston Texans	ACS	1	2
San Diego Chargers	ACW	1	2
Kansas City Chiefs	ACW	1	2
Miami Dolphins	ACE	1	2
Tennessee Titans	ACS	1	2
Baltimore Ravens	ACN	0	3
Arizona Cardinals	NCW	3	0
Green Bay Packers	NCN	3	0
Carolina Panthers	NCS	3	0
Atlanta Falcons	NCS	3	0
Dallas Cowboys	NCE	2	1
Minnesota Vikings	NCN	2	1
Tampa Bay Buccaneers	NCS	1	2
St. Louis Rams	NCW	1	2
San Francisco 49ers	NCW	1	2
New York Giants	NCE	1	2
Washington Redskins	NCE	1	2
Seattle Seahawks	NCW	1	2
Philadelphia Eagles	NCE	1	2
Detroit Lions	NCN	0	3
New Orleans Saints	NCS	0	3
Chicago Bears	NCN	0	3

Analyzing Notable Odds

Forget About It: Baltimore Ravens (75-1)

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To 0-3 the Baltimore Ravens go thanks to both tough contests and choke jobs in games they should have won.

If the Ravens had even a single win this line would look like a great value buy. How many times have the Ravens done the unthinkable in the past decade, either by making the postseason or winning the whole thing?

It's not happening this year, bettors. The defense misses Terrell Suggs, the ground game has just 218 yards through three games and Joe Flacco has thrown as many interceptions as touchdowns (four) behind an injured offensive line.

As ESPN Stats and Info noted, the Ravens have already made the wrong kind of history:

If the Ravens were in a different division, this outlook might be different. But the Cleveland Browns have a win, the Pittsburgh Steelers have two and should be able to survive with Michael Vick under center and the Cincinnati Bengals look like one of the best teams in the league while undefeated.

This is uncharacteristic for Baltimore's organization. While it may figure things out and finish in a respectable manner, the 0-3 hole makes for a bet akin to tossing dollars on a lit grill.

Worth a Shot: Buffalo Bills (28-1)

So this is a thing. 

Most didn't know what to expect from a Rex Ryan-led Buffalo Bills team. Well, except great defense, which is what the team has accomplished outside of a loss to the New England Patriots, holding the Indianapolis Colts and Miami Dolphins to 14 points apiece.

More impressive, though, would be the offense. Despite the lack of a healthy LeSean McCoy (he's carried the ball only 43 times), quarterback Tyrod Taylor continues to turn heads after he surprised in the preseason and won the starting gig.

To date, Taylor has completed 74.4 percent of his passes for 714 yards and seven touchdowns to three interceptions. The Bills shared a few nuggets worth digesting on Twitter:

This is an unexpected turn of events, to say the least. With an offense capable of moving the ball at a consistent clip, an elite defense becomes even deadlier.

Buffalo's lone loss this year came in New England by all of eight points. The win against Indianapolis wasn't close, 27-14. Ditto for the divisional matchup against Miami, 41-14. In other words, the AFC East looks manageable, and the team gets to play the reeling NFC East.

It may go against ingrained instincts, but bettors need to pull the trigger here.

Value Buy: Dallas Cowboys (33-1)

The aforementioned NFC East still belongs to the Dallas Cowboys.

Tony Romo is out of the picture on injured reserve with a designation to return, but the schedule isn't some impossible climb thanks to matchups against beatable teams like the New Orleans Saints, New York Giants, Philadelphia Eagles, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Dolphins, the last of which is Week 11, when Romo is eligible to return. 

Even if the Cowboys hold Romo out until after Thanksgiving, he turns around and gets the Carolina Panthers and Washington Redskins in back-to-back weeks.

Despite a loss to the Atlanta Falcons, the Cowboys showed the team can run well without Romo under center, as Joseph Randle found his way to 87 yards and three scores. The passing game should improve around the team's Week 6 bye or shortly after, too, with Dez Bryant on his way back from injury.

Jon Machota of the Dallas Morning News captured the notion:

Dallas has a mixture of a decent schedule with enough talent to clutch the lead in a messier-than-expected division. Four of the team's divisional games rest after the bye, two of them after Romo's expected return.

Already 2-0 in the division, the Cowboys look like a sound bet at this number when one takes everything into account.

Stats courtesy of NFL.com and are accurate as of September 30. All advanced metrics courtesy of Pro Football Focus.