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The number of wild card qualifiers was expanded to two per conference in 1978 – the divisional winners were granted a bye week while the wild card teams, seeded #4 and #5, played each other in a "wild card game" with the #4 seed having home field advantage. Since there were two wild card games, one per conference, the phrase "wild card round ...
The only time such a scheduling conflict occurred was during Wild Card weekend in 1985 when only 10 teams qualified for the postseason and there were only two wild-card games. The 10-team system was used from 1978 to 1989 excluding 1982 (the 1982 NFL season used a 16-team playoff format). Instead of playing both Wild Card games on the same day ...
The NFL's wild-card games will be spread out over three days – Saturday, Sunday and Monday. There will be two games Saturday, three on Sunday and a stand-alone "Monday Night Football" game to ...
There will be six games played over three days to start the postseason. This marks the fifth year of the 14-team playoff format and the fourth year that one wild card game will be played on Monday ...
The wild-card matchups are set with two games on Saturday, January 11, and three on Sunday, January 12. ... The schedule will culminate with a "Monday Night Football" game on January 13, all of ...
After 272 regular season games, we have the final 14 NFL teams vying to lift the Lombardi Trophy. Of those teams, 12 who qualified for the postseason will take to the field in the Wild Card round.
After the 1970 AFL–NFL merger brought the American Football League into the NFL, the NFL began to use three divisions and a single wild-card team in each conference for its playoffs, in order to produce eight contenders out of six divisions; this was later expanded in 1978 and 1990 so that more wild-card teams could participate.
NFL wild-card matchups, full bracket ... Football" in Week 17 clinched the NFC West title for Los Angeles. The Rams are division winners for the first time since their Super Bowl-winning 2021 ...