Baltimore Ravens out to make AFC North division history this season
Baltimore Ravens out to make AFC North division history this season a Ravens division title in 2025 brings with it another inherent reward- bragging rights over the arch-rival Steelers
The Baltimore Ravens are back-to-back AFC North division champions, and obviously, they're looking to three-peat in 2025. If they do so, they'll become the first team to accomplish this feat since divisional realignment occurred in 2002. That season saw the NFL expand to 32 teams via the introduction of the Houston Texans. Their arrival led to the league reformatting into four divisions (each with four teams) in both conferences, instead of three.
So the AFC North has been in its current iteration for 22 years. The cute cartoon graphic below illustrates how many times each of the four teams has won the division crown since 2014 (sorry, Cleveland fans).
Can we make it 5 this upcoming season? pic.twitter.com/rtP3UocNmI
— RavensMuse (@Ravensmusee) June 7, 2025
Next, we factor in (you were never "told there would be no math") the number of division titles won since the format began up until a decade ago (2014).
The Bengals won three more, bringing their total to six. The Steelers add five more division crowns, which raises their total to eight. And four more for the Ravens, which means their sum is now also at eight. The Browns add 0 to their other 0, and the only thing we can say for Cleveland is, well, hey, the Cavaliers have won the Eastern Conference four times since 2015!
More importantly, a Ravens division title in 2025 brings with it another inherent reward- bragging rights over the arch-rival Steelers. Baltimore would become the first AFC North team to win the division nine times.
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