Each week of the Sprint Cup season, ESPN The Magazine's Ryan McGee ranks the top 20 drivers in the series.

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New this week
Casey Mears, Brad Keselowski.

Dropped out
Jeff Burton, Joey Logano.

Biggest mover
Carl Edwards jumps three spots from 12th to ninth.

Biggest losers
Kurt Busch and Ryan Newman fall four spots each.

Also considered
Martin Truex Jr., Bill Elliott, Glenn Dunnaway, Frankie Lies.

2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Power Rankings - Week 31
	RK(LW)	DRIVER	TOP 10s	COMMENT
	1 (2)	Mark Martin	17	The World's Fastest Wrinkle started on the pole, led 11 laps and finished seventh. That's more impressive when you consider that he left his turn signal on the whole race.
	2 (1)	Jimmie Johnson	18	Were those Fred Flintstone's stone tires that the 48 took on that last pit stop?
	3 (3)	Juan Pablo Montoya	15	Hello, my name is Juan Pablo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. But only proverbially in terms of the Chase, of course.
	4 (5)	Tony Stewart	20	Smoke winning in front of the dirt track-crazy fans of Kansas is like watching the people on Skull Island dancing around and worshipping King Kong.
	5 (7)	Jeff Gordon	20	Five more laps, and Gordon would've won. But the Price Chopper 407.5 would've been a terrible race title.
	6 (8)	Denny Hamlin	16	You get the feeling that Denny didn't care where he finished as long it was ahead of Brad Keselowski.
	7 (9)	Greg Biffle	14	Crew chief Greg Erwin wanted to take two tires on the final pit stop. Biffle wanted four. Big surprise. The driver ALWAYS wants four. They took four. They lost.
	8 (4)	Kurt Busch	16	I'm still not a believer that this lame-duck crew chief deal will work in the long run. Most people outside the 2 crew agree with me. So do a few on it.
	9 (12)	Carl Edwards	12	On Sunday, Cousin Carl was caught with his proverbial pants down when he sped on pit road. Later this week, he'll be caught with his actual shirt off in ESPN The Magazine's Body issue.
	10 (6)	Ryan Newman	14	Every time the 39 car was on pit road, it looked as if it was stuck trying to walk the wrong way on a moving sidewalk at the airport.
	11 (11)	Kasey Kahne	12	Easily the best finish ever by a driver who didn't know whether his boss was a beer billionaire, a legendary racer, a legendary engine builder, a Saudi prince or (D) all of the above.
	12 (10)	Brian Vickers	13	Yep, we were right. (For this to make sense, go back to last week's BV comment.)
	13 (14)	Kyle Busch	10	The irony of Shrub's likely winning the Chase's version of Miss Congeniality is not lost on me.
	14 (16)	Marcos Ambrose	7	If you had gone to Ambrose at the beginning of the season and asked, "Would you take seven top-10s and 17th in points by mid-October?" his answer would've been an emphatic "Oi oi oi!"
	15 (17)	David Reutimann	9	Hey Reut, if you want to score some brownie points with the boss, you should swap cars with Mikey next weekend just so he can remember what it feels like to finish a race.
	16 (13)	Matt Kenseth	10	I'm going to assume Kenseth had a bad day at Kansas because he already was getting psyched up for Brett Favre versus Green Bay Packers on "Monday Night Football."
	17 (15)	Clint Bowyer	12	The only Kansan in the field is stuck in reverse. His past three Kansas finishes: second, 12th and 21st. He finished 19th at Fontana earlier this year.
	18 (19)	AJ Allmendinger	4	The Dinger has posted nine top-20 finishes in his past 14 starts. Be honest, that's more than you thought, isn't it?
	19	Casey Mears	3	The longest-tenured member of the "also considered" list makes the big list, perhaps powered by grandpa Bill Mears, founder of the Mears Gang and a Kansas native.
	20	Brad Keselowski	3	Is this the part where I remind everyone that Tony Eury Jr. was BK's crew chief at Kansas?