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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.
The NFL playoffs kick off on Saturday, Jan. 11 with the league's super wild-card weekend before concluding on Feb. 9 with Super Bowl 59 in New Orleans. Wild-card round All times Eastern
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).
NFL playoff bracket, wild card matchups. Here's a look at the NFL playoff bracket – and the matchups for Super Wild Card Weekend – as the league's regular season winds to a close in Week 18.
In the Wild Card round, the No. 7 seed Green Bay Packers defeated the No. 2 seed Dallas Cowboys, becoming the first No. 7 seed ever to win a playoff game since the introduction of the format in 2020. The Detroit Lions won their first playoff game since 1991 by defeating the Los Angeles Rams .
In 1978, the NFL expanded its playoffs pool from 8 to 10 teams, requiring the addition of another round of playoffs. From 1978 to 1989, this round featured one game per conference between the two wild-card (non-division winners) and thus the name "Wild Card" round.
Here's the full schedule plus how to catch all of the action of the opening weekend of the NFL playoffs: NFL wild card schedule Saturday, Jan. 11. Los Angeles Chargers at Houston Texans, 4:30 p.m. ET.
Fox is also guaranteed an NFC Wild Card game annually. [58] NBC's Wild Card game airs on Sunday night, [60] [61] [62] while ESPN's Wild Card game airs on Monday night, with a simulcast on ABC and the Manningcast on ESPN2. [63] This was the first season Prime Video exclusively streamed a Wild Card game, purchasing the rights to the game that ...