What Are The NFL Playoff Games?

The NFL playoffs are just around the corner, so it’s time to start preparing! Here’s a rundown of the games that will be played and what you can expect from each one.

The NFL Playoffs

The National Football League (NFL) playoffs are a single-elimination tournament held after the end of the regular season to determine the NFL champion. Seven teams from each of the league’s two conferences qualify for the playoffs. A single-elimination game, whereby the loser is immediately eliminated from the tournament, is held between the wild card team and the lowest-seeded qualifying team, the winner of which proceeds to play against the second-lowest-seeded qualifying team, and so on.

What are the NFL Playoff games?

The NFL Playoffs are a series of elimination games played by the top teams in the NFL. The teams that win these games advance to the next round of the playoffs, until only two teams remain. These two teams then compete in the Super Bowl, the biggest and most important game in the NFL.

How do teams qualify for the playoffs?

In the NFL, the team with the best record in each conference automatically earns a spot in the playoffs as the conference’s #1 seed. The remaining teams are seeded #2 through #6 based on their records, with the two remaining spots reserved for Wild Card teams.

To be eligible for a Wild Card spot, a team must have a better record than at least ONE team in its own conference that is NOT already qualified for the playoffs. For example, let’s say that the AFC has four teams with 10-6 records and two Wild Card spots available. Team A would qualify as the AFC’s #5 seed, and Team B would earn the final Wild Card spot.

What is the NFL Playoff schedule?

The National Football League (NFL) 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 by virtue of their regular-season records.

A single-elimination playoff tournament starts with eight division champions and four wild card teams. The division champions are seeded first through eighth based on their overall won-lost-tied record, and the wild card teams are seeded ninth through twelfth. The top four seeds each host a game in the Wild Card round (on either Saturday or Sunday). In addition, seed one hosts seed eight, seed two hosts seed seven, seed three hosts seed six, and seed four hosts seed five.

The winners of each Wild Card game then travel to play one of the divisional opponents:
-the lower seeded team plays at Seed 1
-the higher seeded team plays at Seed 2
-the other two games match seeds 3 and 4 and seeds 5 and 6 based on won-lost record.

The winners of these divisional games then meet in the Conference Championships (on either Saturday or Sunday), where the AFC Championship Game is played at Seed 1 and the NFC Championship Game is played at Seed 2.

The Wild Card Round

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. The four division winners and two wild card teams advance to the playoffs. The NFL playoff games are the Wild Card Round, the Divisional Round, the Conference Championships, and the Super Bowl.

What is the Wild Card Round?

The Wild Card Round is the first round of the NFL playoffs. The four lowest-seeded division winners from the regular season and the two wild-card teams play each other on Wild-Card Weekend. The higher seed receives home-field advantage.

The four division winners with the best record in each conference are seeded first through fourth based on their overall won-lost-tied record, and the conference record. The two wild-card teams are seeded fifth and sixth. The NFL does not use a bracketed playoff system, so there is no re-seeding as in other sports playoffs.

How do teams qualify for the Wild Card Round?

The NFL 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 based on regular season records, and a separate set of brackets is used for each conference.

In the Wild Card Round, the third seed hosts the sixth seed, and the fourth seed hosts the fifth seed. The winners of these games advance to the Divisional Round, where they respectively play the first and second seeds. These four teams are seeded based on their overall record, with the top two seeds receiving byes into this round. The other two Divisional Round matchups are determined by which Wild Card Round winners will face each other.

What is the Wild Card Round schedule?

The NFL Wild Card Round is the opening round of the NFL playoffs. The four teams with the best record in each conference (AFC and NFC) compete in this round. The team with the better record will host the game. These games take place on Wild Card Weekend, which is always the weekend after New Year’s Day.

The schedule for Wild Card Weekend is as follows:

Saturday, January 4th
NFC: 4:40 pm ET – Seattle Seahawks at Dallas Cowboys (FOX)
AFC: 8:15 pm ET – Houston Texans at Oakland Raiders (ESPN)

Sunday, January 5th
NFC: 1:05 pm ET – Detroit Lions at Seattle Seahawks (FOX)
AFC: 4:40 pm ET – Miami Dolphins at Pittsburgh Steelers (CBS)

The Divisional Round

The Divisional Round is the second round of the NFL playoffs. The Divisional Round is composed of the four teams who won in the Wild Card Round. These teams are then divided into two divisions, the AFC and NFC. The two division winners then play each other in the Conference Championships.

What is the Divisional Round?

The Divisional Round is the second round of the NFL playoffs. The divisional round is played on the weekend of January 12-13. The divisional round features the four winners of the Wild Card games. These four teams will play each other in two separate games. The divisional round is played at the home stadiums of the two highest remaining seeds, withException: If the sixth seed beats the third seed, then they will play the second seed. If the fifth seed beats the fourth seed, then they will play whichever team had the best record during the regular season, which could be either the first or second seed depending on how other wild card and divisional games turned out).
The winners of these two games advance to their respective conference’s Championship game.

How do teams qualify for the Divisional Round?

The Divisional Round is the second weekend of the NFL playoffs. The divisional playoff games are played on Saturday and Sunday, with four teams playing each day. The divisional playoff games are played at the home stadiums of the higher-seeded teams.

The divisional round is always played on the weekend following Wild Card Weekend (the first weekend of the playoffs). In 2014, that means the divisional games will be played on January 10-11.

The four divisional playoff games are:

Saturday, January 10
NFC: #3 seed at #2 seed, 4:35 p.m. ET (FOX)
AFC: #4 seed at #1 seed, 8:15 p.m. ET (CBS)

Sunday, January 11
AFC: #3 seed at #2 seed, 1:05 p.m. ET (CBS)
NFC: #4 seed at #1 seed, 4:40 p.m. ET (FOX)

What is the Divisional Round schedule?

The Divisional Round is the second round of the NFL playoffs. The four surviving teams from the Wild Card Round compete in this round. The top seed in each conference receives a bye in this round. The Divisional Round is scheduled to take place on January 13-14, 2018.
The following is the Divisional Round schedule:
Saturday, January 13
AFC Game 1: Baltimore Ravens at Tennessee Titans – 4:35 PM ET on ESPN/ABC
NFC Game 1: Los Angeles Rams at Dallas Cowboys – 8:15 PM ET on Fox
Sunday, January 14
AFC Game 2: Kansas City Chiefs at New England Patriots – 1:05 PM ET on CBS
NFC Game 2: New Orleans Saints at Minnesota Vikings – 4:40 PM ET on Fox

The Conference Championships

The National Football League (NFL) playoffs are a single-elimination tournament held after the regular season to determine the NFL champion. There are four rounds of playoffs. The first round is the Wild Card Playoffs, followed by the Divisional Playoffs, then the Conference Championships, and finally the Super Bowl.

What is the Conference Championships?

The Conference Championships are the two final games of the NFL playoffs. The winners of each game go on to compete in the Super Bowl. The Conference Championships are always played on the Sunday following the Divisional Playoffs.

How do teams qualify for the Conference Championships?

The Conference Championships are the penultimate round of the NFL playoffs. The four divisional winners from each conference (AFC and NFC) advance to this round, which is played on the first Sunday in January. The winner of each conference championship game earns a berth in the Super Bowl, the biggest game in American professional sports.

What is the Conference Championships schedule?

The NFL Conference Championships are the penultimate round of the National Football League (NFL) playoffs. The American Football Conference (AFC) Championship Game and the National Football Conference (NFC) Championship Game, typically referred to as simply the AFC Championship and NFC Championship, respectively, are each played on the first Sunday in February. They are hosted by the four division winners with the two best records from each conference. The two conference champions then advance to meet in the Super Bowl, typically four or five weeks later.

The Super Bowl

The National Football League (NFL) playoffs are a single-elimination tournament held after the regular season to determine the NFL champion. Seven teams from each of the league’s two conferences qualify for the playoffs. A four-round playoff, the NFL Super Bowl, is then held between the two conference champions to determine the league champion.

What is the 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. The Super Bowl is the most watched American television broadcast. More than 100 million people watch it every year.

How do teams qualify for the Super Bowl?

In order to qualify for the Super Bowl, a team must first win their divisional championship game. Then, they must win one of the two Conference Championship games. The Conference Championships are the AFC Championship and the NFC Championship. The teams that win these games will then advance to the Super Bowl.

What is the Super Bowl schedule?

The NFL playoff games will start on Saturday, January 5th. The first game will be between the Houston Texans and the Indianapolis Colts. The game will start at 4:35pm EST and will be broadcast on NBC. The second game of the day will be between the Dallas Cowboys and the Seattle Seahawks. This game will start at 8:15pm EST and will be broadcast on Fox.

The following weekend, on Sunday, January 12th, the New England Patriots will play the Los Angeles Chargers at 1:05pm EST on CBS. Later that evening, at 4:40pm EST, the Saints will take on the Eagles on Fox.

These four winning teams will then advance to the Conference Championships, which will take place on Sunday, January 20th. The time and broadcast information for these games has not yet been determined.

Finally, the biggest event of them all – Super Bowl LIII – is set to take place on Sunday, February 3rd at 6:30 pm EST. The game will be held in Atlanta, Georgia at Mercedes-Benz Stadium and broadcasted worldwide on CBS.