Every NFL playoff scenario for Week 18
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The NFL playoffs begin on Jan. 10 with three full rounds before Super Bowl LX on Feb. 8. Here is the full schedule and the projected bracket.
Both the AFC North and NFC South are primed to have division winners who have been playing near .500 football all year long
Who will make NFL playoffs? Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Carolina Panthers, Baltimore Ravens, Pittsburgh Steelers still in running for NFL postseason.
Here's everything you need to know about the NFL postseason format: Fourteen teams will make the NFL playoffs — seven from both the NFC and AFC. This is an increase over the previous format, which had 12 teams. This is broken out with four division winners in each conference as well as three wild-card teams.
The NFL’s tiebreaking procedures begin with determining each teams' place within their division, and are then rolled forward to hash out the wild card standings. In it’s simplest terms, here’s a look at how the NFL breaks a tie at the top of a division.
A few NFL teams already have their sights set on 2026 after falling out of playoff contention in Week 17, and if your favorite team is part of that group, I extend my sympathies. As we enter the final week of the year,