We are in the final stretch of regular season in the UFL and things are heating up. The Stallions may be the best Spring Football team ever assembled. We have to sift through many wreckages of past leagues to determine that. Speaking of wreckage, the Showboats season has sunk to the bottom of the river. The BattleHawks meet the Stallions in week 7 – the two by far best teams. The Brahmas need a new quarterback. Jake Bates’ legend is getting bigger as we sort out all the teams in week 7 power rankings. Enjoy!!!

#1. BIRMINGHAM STALLIONS (6-0) SAME SPOT FROM LAST WEEK

The Stallions have won 13 straight games dating back from last year. They clinch the first playoff spot in the UFL with the win over Memphis. They have swept the Showboats in two meetings as the Stallions put up season high 39 points. Last week, Adrian Martinez showed off his legs & this week he threw the ball. Martinez had a monster day with his arm completing 23-36 for 368 yards while throwing 4 touchdown passes. Martinez will be the first ever to accomplish 4 TD passes in one game. This was an all team effort as it seems like we have new weapons to talk about every week with this team. One of Martinez’s wide receivers, Kevin Austin Jr., hauled in a 79 yard touchdown.

Ricky Person Jr. was part of that two headed monster back field for the Stallions with CJ Marble. He found the end zone once again. Ricky leads the league in rushing touchdowns in the UFL with six. He’s averaging one a game this season. The Stallions will play the BattleHawks this weekend which could be a preview of the UFL championship down the road.

#2. ST.LOUIS BATTLEHAWKS (5-1) SAME SPOT AS LAST WEEK

The BattleHawks had a challenge last week against the Roughnecks defense. Eventually the BattleHawks pulled away late in the 4th quarter to seal the deal. The number one offense in the UFL only scored 22 points which was enough to win their 5th straight game of the season. The defense of the BattleHawks kept Houston in check most of the day. Mike Rose forced a fumble on Roughnecks running back Mark Thompson to keep Houston with nothing but a goose egg in the first half. Roughnecks made it interesting in the second half to pull within one score as it was 14-8 most of the second half. The BattleHawks offense was not as crisp as they usually are. It was the BattleHawks defense that gets the credit with the win in this one making the plays to stop Roughnecks in long drives and keeping them off the score board.

Willie Harvey led the defensive charge with the most tackles of the day with 9. Harvey also forced a fumble that stopped Houston from getting more momentum. A crowd over 32,000 gave the Roughnecks a challenge on offense getting the play off in time. Now it will be the Clash of the Titans match up next week when the Stallions and BattleHawks battle it out for the supreme being of the spring football universe.

#3. MICHIGAN PANTHERS (4-2) MOVED UP ONE SPOT FROM LAST WEEK

The Jake Bates story is becoming bigger after each week of the UFL. Legendary tales will be talked about for years of how Bates emerged in the UFL. Bates’ game winning kick last week is a walk off win for the Panthers as they have now won two straight games. Bates’ kick kept the Renegades’ losing season perfect. Plus his leg was the Panthers offense as he went 5-5 in field goals which is more than half the Panthers points in a 28-27 win. If the Panthers don’t have Bates, they are under 500 for the season in the standings. At the quarterback position, Danny Etling is improving as he completed 16-28 passes for 202 yards with a touchdown pass. He also used his legs and ran for 55 yards on the ground. The Panthers have a solid defense. They have a quarterback who’s getting better. They have a solid running game. The kicker Bates is the only thing consistent each week with this Panther team. If everything gelled together on game day, the Panthers would be hard to beat each week and here they are 3rd in the power rankings.

#4. DC DEFENDERS (3-3) MOVED UP ONE SPOT

The thing you can say about the DC Defenders is they are hard to beat at home. The beer snake in the crowd ignites this team who half of the time look like the walking dead on the field. The Defenders had a come from behind victory in the 4th quarter. Jordan Ta’amu had a nice drive. He did okay but nothing special behind center. Kelvin Harmon had a nice game and hauled in a 13 yard reception which was the dagger that killed off the Brahmas. This game was a field goal contest until that touchdown.

You have to credit the Defenders defense for the win. Maybe all 3 of the wins for the season. They held the llama Brahmas to 79 passing yards on the day. Led by corner back Michael Joseph who had 13 tackles, 11 solo. One tackle was for loss of yards. He broke up a pass. He forced a fumble. The Defenders defense suffocated San Antonio’s aerial game. Imagine the Defenders will bounce back and forth from the top 4 teams in the league to the bottom 4 dwellers.

#5. SAN ANTONIO BRAHMAS (4-2) DROPPED TWO SPOTS FROM LAST WEEK

The Brahmas have to live or die off their second string quarterback, Quinten Dormady. You never know what you will get. Last week he completed 16-26 passes which is nice but for 79 total yards. The dink and dunk short yard passes like the Brahmas of old from the XFL. Dormady served up another interception. He did throw a 2 yard strike to his running back, John Lovett, who was the Brahmas offense last week. Besides the touchdown, Lovett ran for 153 yards on the ground with 23 carries. The Brahmas defense gave up 18 points which was enough for the Defenders to win the game as Brahmas miss Chase Garbers QB number 1 on this San Antonio team.

The Brahmas will face the Roughnecks next week in Houston, one of Wade Phillips stomping grounds that is where he coached last year in the XFL. They will need a better Dormady for that one. The Brahmas team as a whole are the old Roughnecks team from last year where they moved to San Antonio. While the USFL Gamblers just adopted the Roughnecks name. It’s nice to have some sort of reunion during the season.

#6. HOUSTON ROUGHNECKS (1-5) MOVED UP ONE SPOT FROM LAST WEEK

The Roughnecks are playing better than the Showboats and the Renegades, as I moved them up a spot this week because of that defense. The Roughnecks defense held St. Louis to 22 points where 8 of those point came at the very end of the game. The only offense the Roughnecks had was a Mark Thompson rushing touchdown. The Roughnecks had some chances in the second half to even things, but drives just stalled. Reid Sinnett is improving behind center each week. The Roughnecks playing in front of a full crowd were penalized for false starts, and a delay of games due to crowd noise did not help. That defense will keep them in games.

Chris Odom harassed AJ McCarron all day as he had a sack and 3 tackles for a loss of yards. Odom had 5 total tackles for the day. Now has 3.5 sacks for the season. The Roughnecks need more offense. Then they can put a few more W’s in the win column and end the season on a high note.

#7. ARLINGTON RENEGADES (0-6) MOVED UP ONE SPOT

I moved the Renegades out of the sink hole because they are clawing and scratching right now. They are close man. Another loss last week off a walk off field goal after Luis Perez and company took the lead late in the game versus the Panthers.

The Renegades tight end Sal Cannella had a good came catching 6 catches for 52 yards and hauled in a key touchdown. The Renegades defense couldn’t stop the Panthers. The Panthers had to settle for field goals instead of touchdowns as Jake Bates had 5 of them. At the end, the Renegades defense once again were a victim of a walk off.

#8. MEMPHIS SHOWBOATS (1-5) DROPPED TWO SPOTS FROM LAST WEEK

The Memphis Showboats need to start printing out some new tee shirts. I survived the Showboats 2024 season and lived to tell about it. The Showboats are now totally under water as they have hit rock bottom being last in the power rankings and being destroyed by the Stallions. Where do you begin? The Carnell Lake solid defense disappeared in the 2nd half of week two. The offensive line is so shaky and wobbly your grandmother wearing combat boots could sack the Showboats quarterback. Victor Darius is a bowling ball that can no longer roll. The two quarterbacks have not been as good as they once were. Troy Williams is 6-13 for 65 yards. He did throw a touchdown pass but also threw an interception. Then Case Cookus was cooking completing 15-23 for 115 yards and a touchdown pass but coughed up two fumbles. Women and children first as they stampede to get off this boat ride that now is at the bottom of some Memphis river.

Maybe they will see the ghost of Elvis scuba diving through the boat portholes.