If we give effort to find the usefulness in literally anything, then certainly we could find some positive outcomes to reading NFL power rankings. So long as we don’t associate power rankings with anything that’s meaningful to our lives and the careers of players and coaches in the league, surely we could eventually get to a nugget of gold or a hunk of diamond that’s not destined to whither away in our hands as we argue “How could you have that team ranked 17th when they’re clearly 21st?!”
That is useless. What’s worth keeping in the tool belt instead?