How Do The NFL Playoffs Work This Year?

How do the NFL playoffs work this year? With the regular season coming to an end, it’s time to start thinking about the playoffs. Here’s a quick guide to how they work.

How the NFL Playoffs Work

The NFL playoffs are a single-elimination tournament held after the end of the National Football League’s (NFL) regular season to determine the NFL champion. Six teams from each of the league’s two conferences qualify for the playoffs based on regular season records, and a seeding system is used to determine the seedings for each team.

In the first round, dubbed the wild-card playoffs or wild-card weekend, the third-seeded team hosts the sixth seed, and the fourth seed hosts the fifth. The winners of these games advance to the divisional playoffs, where they join the top two seeded teams who received a bye in the first round. In the second round, dubbed the divisional playoffs, 𝐴1 host D4 and A2 host D3 . The higher seeds (A1 and A2) host each game as they face off against their conference’s lower seeds (D4 and D3). These matchups are usually held on Saturday and Sunday in mid-January.

The two surviving teams from each conference’s divisional playoff games then meet in Conference Championship games to decide each respective conference’s places in Super Bowl LIV, which is scheduled for February 2nd , 2020. The AFC champion will be determined at 3:05 PM EST in Arrowhead Stadium, home of 𝐴𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑠 while 𝐵𝐹𝓋 will take place at 6:40 PM EST in Levi’s Stadium, home of 𝑆ℎօᴡ 49ers .
Lastly, following conference championships is Super Bowl Sunday, where AFC will play NFC for NFL bragging rights and ultimate glory.

How the NFL Playoffs Have Changed This Year

This year, the NFL playoffs will look a little different than in years past. For the first time ever, seven teams from each conference will qualify for the playoffs instead of six. This means that there will be a total of 14 teams in the playoffs, up from 12 in previous years.

The extra teams will be placed in a new “Wild Card Round” which will take place on the weekend of January 9-10. In this round, the two lowest-seeded teams from each conference will face off against each other. The winners of these games will then move on to the divisional round, where they will face the top-seeded team from their respective conference.

The divisional round will take place on the weekend of January 16-17, and the conference championship games will be played on Sunday, January 24. The Super Bowl is scheduled for Sunday, February 7.

How the NFL Playoffs Will Affect the Super Bowl

The NFL regular season is coming to a close, and with it, the playoff picture is starting to take shape.

But how do the playoffs work? And how will they affect the Super Bowl?

Here’s a quick primer on everything you need to know about the NFL playoffs, as well as how they’ll impact the biggest game of the year.

The NFL playoffs are a single-elimination tournament held after the end of the regular season to determine the champion of the National Football League (NFL). The tournament culminates in the Super Bowl, which is usually held in early February and determines the league’s champion for that season.

In order to qualify for the playoffs, a team must first have a winning record (more wins than losses). If there is a tie for any of the playoff positions, a series of tiebreakers are used to determine who qualifies for the postseason.

Once the field is set, each team is seeded based on their won-loss record. The higher seed receives home-field advantage, meaning they will host each playoff game up until the Super Bowl. In addition, Wild Card Weekend features four matchups: two games on Saturday and two games on Sunday. The winners of those four games advance to next weekend’s divisional round.