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Team with the lowest winning percentage to win a playoff game, 7–9 (0.438) Seattle Seahawks , 2010 Team with the lowest regular season winning percentage to reach the NFC Championship Game , 8–7 (0.533)
The NFL playoff picture should fill out further in Week 15, four teams with shots to enter the field, while Eagles take aim at NFC East title. ... Big game with Buffalo in Week 15, but – given ...
With just one game down in Week 15, one NFL team's clinching scenario is already off the table. A tie between the Los Angeles Rams and San Francisco 49ers on Thursday night would have kept alive ...
Beginning with the 1933 season, the NFL featured a championship game, played between the winners of its two divisions.In this era, if there was a tie for first place in the division at the end of the regular season, a one-game playoff was used to determine the team that would represent their division in the NFL Championship Game.
The Lions already became the first NFL team to clinch a playoff spot in Week 14, and they could be followed by the Eagles and Vikings on Sunday.
The league expanded its playoff system from a 12-team to a 14-team tournament, adding a third wild card team for each conference for the first time since the 2001 season, and only awarding each conference's division winner with the best record a first round bye. The Wild Card round was thus extended from two to three games per day.
The Chiefs snuck out a win over the Panthers with a game-winning field goal as time expired, and the Lions flew past the Indianapolis Colts. The Lions are now 10-1 for the first time since 1934.
The NFL does not use a fixed bracket playoff system, and there are no restrictions regarding teams from the same division matching up in any round. In the first round, dubbed the Wild Card playoffs or Super Wild Card Weekend , the second-seeded division winner hosts the seventh seed wild card, the third seed hosts the sixth seed, and the fourth ...