Bachelor Power Rankings - Week 8 - "The Return of Prince Farming"

With three episodes left (one tonight, Women Tell All next week, and a finale the week after that), we are down to a trio of ladies vying for Prince Farming’s (artichoke) heart.

If you missed last week’s 4 Sentence Recaps or The Bachelor Five from the double episode last week, you can find them here and here.

Exclusive sneak peak at Chris' reaction when he realizes he chose Becca the virgin over Jade the Playboy model to take to the Fantasy Suite.

Now for this week’s rankings. Chase has the narrowest of leads (240-237) and only a miracle can propel me to a win (read: time machine).

The Rules: We will rank the remaining Bachelor contestants. Points will be awarded each week based on how well each of us predicts the contestants going home. For example, if Josh puts CONTESTANT A in spot 7 and Chase puts CONTESTANT A in spot 10 and CONTESTANT A goes home, Josh will get 7 points and Chase will get 10.

The winner will be based on the player with the most cumulative points at the end of the season (this ain't golf, folks).

POWER 5: We will mark our Power 5 choices with a * so you can keep track of how well we predicted from the start. Chase now only has 1 in play (losing Jillian and Nikki in Week 4, Kelsey in Week 6 and Jade last week). I'm also down to 1 after Tandra's exit in Week 2, Nikki's exit in Week 4, Kelsey's exit in Week 6 and Jade's exit last week.

All things considered, each of us has a POWER 5 choice in the Top 3. And it looks like one of them might take the win (Chase has Whitney and I've got Becca).

Power Rankings

1. *Whitney, 29, Fertility Nurse, IL – Before we even get into these rankings, I’m going to go ahead and give you a power ranking spoiler preview: nothing changed. Whitney still has a mural and she is still in the top spot for my power rankings this week. Whitney has consistently shined…she’s stayed above the fray, but has also spent some time in the trenches among the Bachelor Mansion schisms. Her one-on-one wedding crasher date could have almost certainly been faked, but the connection established at this date has had long lasting implications. The rapport they established by being able to look across the room of (alleged) strangers, make eye contact, and smile knowing the shared secret is special and makes me want to keep her in the top spot. Whitney is getting a ring, y’all.
2. Becca, 25, Chiropractic Assistant, CA – I’m saying it again. I really, really like Becca. She occupied my top slot for several weeks. She’s ridiculously humble, kind and certainly has a strong connection to Chris. Bachelor producers are playing up the virgin plot line (everyone miss Ashley I?), but I really hope it doesn’t lead to any ill will from Chris. As has been said throughout the year (and echoed by Becca) the fact that she is a virgin just isn’t. a. big. deal.  I’d love for Becca to win it all, I really would. I think she and Chris would be good together. At the end of the day, this is probably the easiest way to sum it up: Becca seems to be a wonderful person.
3. Kaitlyn, 29, Dance Instructor, BC – I haven’t understood this all season. Kaitlyn is the one I pegged wrong. Completely wrong. I didn’t see her lasting even half as long as she has. I think we’re in a 2-person showdown and Kaitlyn is the 3rd wheel Canadian (we’ve all been there, right?). I’m fascinated that the girl that went on the Jimmy Kimmel date made it to the Fantasy Suite. The conversations from the one-on-one-on-Jimmy make me think that Jimmy Kimmel might be making an appearance in the Fantasy Suite with them. Considering that I’m predicting this to be my last week writing about Kaitlyn, I want to remind all of our loyal readers one more time that this is THE SAME GIRL THAT SAID CHRIS CAN PLOW HER FIELD ANY TIME. This TV show is the best thing to ever happen to America.

1. Whitney, 29, Fertility Nurse, IL – Oh lord. It sounds like the baby voice is back tonight (the less girls, the more concentrated the voice). And Chris is sweating bullets in the preview when Whitney talks about not really wanting to spend her life in 500 person Arlington, Iowa (okay, that could be the Bali heat). But even with all of that, you can’t forget that this is a reality show about fake love. And Whitney’s in it to win it. At this stage in the game, she's built up a big enough connection to take the crown (read: ring). If Chris picks her, my guess is that it won’t last. Whitney’s a career oriented woman. And the only career in Arlington, Iowa other than farmer is professional Netflix watcher. Though at least if she had that job, it wouldn't require any talking.
2. Kaitlyn, 29, Dance Instructor, BC – What an anomaly. Her hometown date wasn't a hometown date at all when instead of going to Canada (where she is from), we went to Phoenix, Arizona where her family vacations for part of the year (?). She also took Chris to her local recording studio (where the only entrance is apparently in the dirtiest alley in Arizona) to spit some rhymes (what?) before an uneventful trip to meet the family. Kaitlyn is everything the other girl’s aren't. She’s carefree, she’s spunky and she is simply enjoying life. I don’t think Chris will choose her in the end but with the Fantasy Suite dates tonight, she’s one step closer to “plowing the **** out of his fields.”
3. *Becca, 25, Chiropractic Assistant, CA – I hate to put my girl Becca in the three spot tonight but the combination of her age (8 years younger than Chris), her likely discomfort in the Fantasy Suite (she’s a virgin if you didn't hear her mention it over Ashley I. SCREAMING her virginity from the mountaintops) and the lack of real bonding might lead to her packing her bags. I think she’ll be sad and Chris will be sad (as sad as you can be after dating someone for a grand total of about 27 hours) when she goes home. But for Becca, that sadness will only last for a hot second when she realizes she is a prime candidate to the next Bachelorette. See you back at Bachelor mansion, Becca!