You gotta ALWAYS win to stay on top. That it the pressure of being on top. Everyone is gunning for you (which they would be anyway, but with added vengeance/incentive).
therein lies the rub.
A loss to a bottom feeder team can tank our ranking. Which is not in itself such a bad thing. But if we (meaning the team) buy into it, it could be the reverse of the Hak attack in the seaon after the break.