With the 2010 NFL season kicking off tonight, we wanted to see which teams were most popular heading into the season. Each week ESPN publishes its NFL Power Rankings, which ranks teams based on overall performance. We thought it would be interesting to create a popularity ranking based on how much the teams were being talked about online.

We measured overall buzz for each NFL team throughout the last month. The table below lists ESPN Power Ranking and our Social Radar Buzz Ranking side-by-side for comparison:

In the chart below, teams are listed in order of ESPN Power Ranking, and the bars represent overall chatter for each team.

We will check back throughout the season with updates on popularity based on chatter.