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Brackets are commonly found in major North American professional sports leagues and in U.S. college sports. Often, at the end of the regular season, the league holds a post-season tournament (most commonly called a playoff) to determine which team is the best out of all of the teams in the league.
The Acrisure Holiday Invitational [2] is a four-team NCAA Division I college basketball tournament played on the two days before Thanksgiving, at Acrisure Arena in Thousand Palms, California. The tournament is a part of the Acrisure series.
The NFL's playoff bracket is dynamic. Instead of a static bracket, which is standard in most other sports' postseasons, pro football doesn't have a tournament with predetermined sets of matchups.
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 ...
NFL playoff bracket update: Wild card matchups AFC. No. 1 Kansas City Chiefs (15-1, AFC West winners): BYE. The Chiefs clinched the AFC's No. 1 seed with their 29-10 victory over the Steelers on ...
In American team sports, the NFL playoffs and WNBA playoffs employ re-seeding, and the NBA playoffs and the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament do not. The Stanley Cup Playoffs used re-seeding between 1975 and 1981 and again from 1994 and 2013, and the MLS Cup Playoffs used re-seeding until 2018.
The NFL playoff bracket is ever-changing, evolving as the postseason moves along. Both No. 1 seeds, one in each conference, earn a bye week to begin their playoff schedule.
The remaining two participants in the tournament are the wild cards, which compete in an MLB-style play-in game prior to the main tournament to determine the sixteenth team in the main tournament. Just as is the case with MLB division titles, the format is designed to give teams an incentive to win their provincial championships.