If you're a Miami Dolphins or New York Jets fan and still harbor hopes your team can make the playoffs, you should be rooting for the Tennessee Titans to knock off the Houston Texans on Monday night.

The Titans are creeping up from behind in the standings, but the Dolphins and Jets desperately need some teams ahead of them to fall back in the pack, and the Texans are one of those.

A Texans loss would move the Dolphins up a spot to ninth in the AFC standings and put them one game behind three teams -- instead of four -- that are tied for the conference's fifth-best record.

Below is an AFC snapshot entering Monday night. Teams are listed by overall record (with division and conference records). The No. 1 tiebreaker divisional and conference standings is head-to-head results, when applicable. After that, ties are broken within the division-by-division record and for the wild card by conference record.

As mentioned before on this blog, don't just look at the records and how many games back a team is. Just as significant is the number of teams it must leapfrog to get into sixth place.

1. Indianapolis Colts 10-0 (3-0, 6-0)
2. Cincinnati Bengals 7-3 (5-0, 5-3)
3. San Diego Chargers 7-3 (4-1, 5-3)
4. New England Patriots 7-3 (3-1, 5-3)
5. Jacksonville Jaguars 6-4 (2-2, 5-2)
6. Pittsburgh Steelers 6-4 (1-2, 4-3)
7. Denver Broncos 6-4 (2-1, 5-3)
8. Houston Texans 5-4 (1-2, 4-3)
9. Baltimore Ravens 5-5 (2-2, 5-4)
10. Miami Dolphins 5-5 (3-1, 3-3)
11. New York Jets 4-6 (1-4, 4-5)
12. Tennessee Titans 3-6 (1-3, 2-6)