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Nola.com's Larry Holder is counting down the top games from the upcoming New Orleans Saints season. No. 3 is the 21 meeting between the Saints and the Atlanta Falcons in Atlanta.
Multiple factors in ranking the Saints' 16 regular-season games were used, including anticipated quality of the opponent, the opposition's quarterback situation, game times (late in the season, early in the season, prime time) and potential weather conditions.
Other teams on the ranking so far include:
No. 16: Sept. 22 -- vs. Arizona, noon
No. 15: Oct. 27 -- vs. Buffalo, noon
No. 14: Sept. 30 -- vs. Miami, 7:40 p.m.
No. 13: Nov. 3 -- at New York Jets, noon
No. 12: Dec. 15 -- at St. Louis, noon
No. 11: Dec. 29 -- vs. Tampa Bay, noon
No. 10: Dec. 8 -- vs. Carolina, noon
No. 9: Nov. 10 -- vs. Dallas, 7:30 p.m.
No. 8: Dec. 22 -- at Carolina, noon
No. 7: Sept. 15 -- at Tampa Bay, 3:05 p.m.
No. 6: Oct. 13 -- at New England, 3:25 p.m.
No. 5: Oct. 6 -- at Chicago, noon
No. 4: Nov. 17 -- vs. San Francisco, 3:25 p.m.

New Orleans faces off against a number of the NFL's top teams in 2013, but the weeks between Nov. 17 - Dec. 2 have the potential to be one of the toughest stretches of the season.
Nov. 17 - vs San Francisco
Nov. 21 - at Atlanta (Thursday)
Dec. 2 - at Seattle
What is the toughest game for the Saints in the three-week span of 49ers, Falcons and Seahawks?


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