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This was the tenth postseason meeting in the rivalry between the Packers and 49ers, an NFL record for the most playoff matches between two teams. [46] The most recent postseason matchup came in the 2021 NFC Divisional Game, which the 49ers won 13–10 in Green Bay. The 49ers and Packers did not meet in the regular season.
The NFL playoff format is a single-elimination tournament of seven teams in the AFC and NFC, including: Four division winners (South, North, East, and West) Three wild card teams (best remaining ...
The 2024 NFL regular season is now in the history books and the league's playoff picture is now set in stone. A whopping 12 of 14 playoff berths were clinched ahead of Week 18, leaving just two ...
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 NFL's playoff bracket is down to its final four teams heading into conference championship weekend. Below is a look at the full 2025 playoff bracket, updated for the results of the wild card ...
This event figured into the decision in 1970 to include a wild-card team in the playoff tournament after the AFL–NFL merger. When the leagues merged in 1970, the new NFL (with 26 teams) reorganized into two conferences—the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC)—with three divisions each. From the ...
Los Angeles' win over New England on Saturday clinched a playoff spot, but the team is not locked into the No. 6 seed. If the Steelers lose next week to the Bengals and the Chargers beat the ...
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 , the second-seeded division winner hosts the seventh seed wild card, the third seed hosts the sixth seed, and the fourth seed hosts the fifth seed.