How Many Teams Are Left in the NFL Playoffs?

How Many Teams Are Left in the NFL Playoffs?

How the Playoffs Work

The NFL playoffs are a single-elimination tournament held after the end of the regular season to determine the NFL champion. The playoffs began in 1933, when the first NFL championship game was played. The tournament bracket is made up of six teams from each conference: the four division winners and two wild-card teams. The top two seeds in each conference receive a bye in the first round of the playoffs.

Seeding

In the NFL, the team with the best record in each conference is seeded 1st overall. The next two best teams in each conference are seeded 2nd and 3rd. The team with the fourth-best record in each conference is seeded 4th overall and plays a first-round playoff game against the 5th seed from the other conference. The winner of that game goes on to play the 1st seed in the divisional round.

Wild Card Round

The NFL playoffs are a single-elimination tournament held after the regular season to determine the league’s champion. The playoffs are made up of six teams: the four division winners and two wild card teams. The four division winners are seeded 1-4 based on their record, with the best team being seeded 1 and the worst being seeded 4. The two wild card teams are seeded 5 and 6.

The first round of the playoffs is known as the Wild Card Round. In this round, the 5 seed plays the 4 seed and the 6 seed plays the 3 seed. The team with the better record is always the home team. The winners of these two games advance to the next round, where they will play either the 1 seed or 2 seed.

The second round of the playoffs is known as Divisional Round. In this round, the 1 seed plays the lowest remaining seed from the Wild Card Round, and the 2 seed plays the other team from that round. Again, home field advantage goes to those with better records. The winners of these two games advance to the conference championship games.

The conference championship games are held in week three of the playoffs (the weekend after Divisional Round weekend). In these games, each conference’s top remaining team plays its second-best remaining team from any round. Home field advantage in these games goes to whichever team finished higher in their regular season conference standings; if both teams had identical records, a coin flip would determine home field advantage. These two winners then advance to Super Bowl Sunday, where they will compete to be crowned NFL champion for that year!

Divisional Round

In the Divisional Round, the field of remaining teams is narrowed down to just eight. The four division winners from the regular season are each matched up against a wild card team. These games are played at the home stadium of the division winner with the better record. Just like in the Wild Card Round, the two teams with the best records in each conference get to sit this round out. They automatically advance to the Conference Championships.

Conference Championships

The NFL playoffs are a single-elimination tournament held after the regular season to determine the NFL champion.

Six teams from each of the league’s two conferences qualify for the playoffs.
These teams are seeded according to their regular-season record. The tournament culminates in the Super Bowl, the league’s championship game.

In each conference, the four division winners and two wild card teams (the two best teams that did not win their divisions) qualify for the playoffs. The top two seeds receive a bye in the first round of the playoffs while the remaining four teams compete in first-round playoff games.

The first round of the playoffs is referred to as the wild-card round or wild-card weekend. In this round, each conference’s two remaining wild card teams compete against each other. The winners of these games then advance to their respective conference’s divisional playoff games.

The divisional playoff games are played on weekend days at sites determined by playoff seedings. These contenders include, for each conference, the top seed (which receives a bye in this round), as well as seeds 2–3 and 4–5 based on regular season records. These four winning teams then advance to their respective conference’s championship game which is held on either a Saturday or Sunday. Championship games are played at pre-selected sites, not related to seeding or standings.

finally, The winners of these two contests face each other in the Super Bowl which is held annually on a Sunday afternoon at a pre-determined site that is usually selected several years in advance ( occasionally, it is held on Monday night).

Super Bowl

The Super Bowl is the biggest and most important American football game of the year. It is the annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL). The game is usually played on the first Sunday in February and determines the champion of the NFL for that season.

How Many Teams Are Left

There are only four teams left in the NFL playoffs. The New England Patriots, Los Angeles Rams, New Orleans Saints, and Kansas City Chiefs are the only teams remaining. This means that there will only be two games this weekend, the AFC Championship game and the NFC Championship game.

AFC

As of January 11th, there are 4 teams left in the AFC playoffs. These teams are the New England Patriots, the Baltimore Ravens, the Kansas City Chiefs, and the Houston Texans.

NFC

The NFC playoffs are down to the final four teams.
In the NFC, the top-seeded Packers will host the upstart Buccaneers, who entered the playoffs as a wild card but have won three road games to get to this point.
The other NFC game will feature the Rams, who are coming off a dramatic win over the Seahawks, and the Saints, who have coasted to victories in their first two playoff games.

What Happens Next

After an exciting weekend of NFL football, we are down to the final four teams. The New England Patriots, Los Angeles Rams, New Orleans Saints, and Kansas City Chiefs are all that remain in the hunt for the Lombardi Trophy. But what happens next?

AFC

The American Football Conference (AFC) is one of the two conferences of the National Football League (NFL), the highest professional level of American football in the world. This conference and its counterpart, the National Football Conference (NFC), currently contain 16 teams each, making up a total of 32 teams in the NFL. Of these 32 teams, 14 are divisional winners while 18 are wild card teams.

In order to make it to the playoffs, a team must first win their divisional game. The four divisional winners from each conference then advance to the Wild Card round. From there, the winner of each Wild Card game advances to the Divisional round where they will play one of the four divisional winners from the opposite conference. The two winners from each Divisional round game will then advance to their respective conference championship game. Finally, the winner from each conference championship game will advance to the Super Bowl, which is considered the biggest single-day sporting event in North America.

NFC

The National Football Conference (NFC) is one of the two conferences of the National Football League (NFL), the highest professional level of American football in the world. This conference and its counterpart, the American Football Conference (AFC), currently contain 16 teams each, making up a total of 32 teams in the NFL.

The NFC began play in 1970 when the AFL-NFL merger occurred. Since its inception, the NFC has been home to some of the most iconic and successful franchises in NFL history. The Dallas Cowboys, considered by many to be “America’s Team,” have been one of the most successful and popular teams in the conference, winning five Super Bowls. The San Francisco 49ers have also been a dominant force in the NFC, winning five Super Bowls as well. Other popular and successful franchises in the conference include the Green Bay Packers, New York Giants, and Washington Redskins.

Currently, there are four teams remaining in the NFC playoffs: The Dallas Cowboys, Green Bay Packers, Los Angeles Rams, and New Orleans Saints. The Rams and Saints will face off in the NFC Championship game with a trip to Super Bowl LIII on the line.

Conclusion

Now that we are in the conference championship stage of the NFL playoffs, we know that there are just four teams left vying for a spot in the Super Bowl.

Those teams are the Green Bay Packers, who won the NFC Conference championship, and the Seattle Seahawks, who won the AFC Conference championship.

So, there are two teams left in each conference, and four teams total in the NFL playoffs.