When Is The Playoffs For Nfl?
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Wondering when the NFL playoffs are? Here’s a complete guide to when each round of the 2020-2021 playoffs will be played.
Introduction
The NFL playoffs are a single-elimination tournament held after the regular season to determine the NFL champion. As of 2018, it consists of six rounds. The first round, Wild Card weekend, features four teams playing in two games. The winners advance to the Divisional Round, which then narrows the field to eight teams. The four division winners receive a bye in this round. In the Conference Championships, the remaining two teams compete to see who will advance to the Super Bowl, the biggest sporting event in the United States.
What is the NFL?
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC). The NFL is one of the four major North American professional sports leagues, the greatest professional level of American football in the world, the richest sports league by revenue in the world, as well as the most valuable sports franchise in the United States with a value estimated at $63 billion.
NFL Playoffs
The National Football League playoffs are a single-elimination tournament held after the end of the regular season to determine the NFL champion. Six teams from each of the league’s two conferences qualify for the playoffs. A tie-breaking system is used to seed the teams within their conferences, ensuring that division champions and wild card teams face each other in the first round, while ensuring that four division winners from each conference make the playoffs regardless of record.
The playoffs culminate in the Super Bowl, the league’s championship game. The tournament bracket for the 2019–20 NFL playoffs is as follows.
How the NFL Playoffs Work
The National Football League (NFL) playoffs are a single-elimination tournament held after the regular season to determine the NFL champion. Each year, six teams from each of the league’s two conferences qualify for the playoffs.
The playoff field is then whittled down to four teams for the divisional playoffs, two for the conference championships, and finally one for the Super Bowl, the league’s championship game.
The NFL playoffs are structured so that each round features two teams from each conference playing each other. In the first round, known as the wild-card round, the three division winners with the worst record in each conference face off against the three wild-card teams with the best record.
The divisional round pits the two remaining wild-card teams against each conference’s top-seeded team. The conference championship games then decide who will represent each conference in the Super Bowl.
Who Qualifies for the NFL Playoffs?
In order to qualify for the NFL playoffs, a team must first win their division. The four teams with the best record in each conference (including ties) will then earn a spot in the playoffs as a wild card team. The two teams with the best record in each conference will be given a bye week and will automatically advance to the divisional round. From there, the playoffs will continue until only two teams remain: the AFC and NFC champions, who will face off in the annual Super Bowl.
What is the NFL Playoff Schedule?
The NFL Playoff Schedule is set by the NFL’s 12 teams. The top six teams in each conference (AFC and NFC) make the playoffs. The four division winners are seeded first through fourth based on their regular season records and the two wild card teams are seeded fifth and sixth.
In the first round of the playoffs, the third seed hosts the sixth seed and the fourth seed hosts the fifth seed. The 1 seed gets a bye and home-field advantage throughout the playoffs. In the second round, the divisional playoffs, the top seed in each conference plays the lowest remaining seed from the first round, while the second seed in each conference plays the other team that won in the first round. The winners of those games advance to their respective conference championships.
The AFC and NFC Championship Games are played at neutral sites on a rotating basis. This year, they will be played at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City (AFC) and Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara (NFC). The winners of those games advance to Super Bowl LIII, which will be played at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on February 3, 2019.
Conclusion
The playoffs for the National Football League (NFL) are in January. The Wild Card round is usually on the weekend of January 4-5, while the Divisional round is on January 11-12. The Conference Championships are on January 18-19, and the Super Bowl is on February 1.
