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The National Football Conference (NFC) is a conference of the National Football League (NFL), the highest level of professional American football in the United States. The NFC and its counterpart, the American Football Conference (AFC), each have 16 teams organized into four divisions.
Since the merger, five expansion teams have joined the AFC and two have left, thus making the current total 16. When the Seattle Seahawks and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers joined the league in 1976, they were temporarily placed in the NFC and AFC respectively. This arrangement lasted for one season only before the two teams switched conferences.
Although the AFC teams quickly decided on a divisional alignment along mostly geographic lines, the 13 NFC owners had trouble deciding which teams would play in which divisions. The 49ers and Rams, both in California, were guaranteed to be in the same division as the only NFC teams west of the Rocky Mountains. One early proposal would have put ...
NFC's No. 7 seed decided. A 51-yard field goal at the gun by Chicago K Cairo Santos sent the Bears to a 24-22 victory that relegated Green Bay to the NFC's No. 7 seed and a wild-card trip to ...
NFL playoffs: NFC and AFC bracket, schedules, kickoff times for divisional round. Ayrton Ostly, USA TODAY. January 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM. Fourteen teams entered, and eight remain.
It also happened in the 2020 NFC East, the 2014 NFC South and the 2010 NFC West. Much of the league is clustered around six or seven wins, with six teams in the AFC tied at 7-6 and six teams in ...
The NFL realigned to create four divisions in each conference with four teams in each division. Arizona (NFC East) and Seattle (AFC West) joined the NFC West. NFC Central renamed NFC North. AFC Central renamed AFC North. NFC South created. Tampa Bay moved from the old NFC Central. New Orleans, Atlanta, and Carolina moved from the NFC West.
The league also released the schedule for the AFC and NFC championship games on Sunday night. ... Jan. 26. NFC championship game | 3 p.m. ET | Fox. AFC championship game | 6:30 p.m. ET | CBS. Show ...