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The NFL playoff field begins with 14 teams and just 13 games to determine this year's champion at Super Bowl 59 in New Orleans.Not all of them will be decided in regulation. Last year's Super Bowl ...
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.
Sudden death overtime was finally approved for the NFL championship game in 1946 [7] and has remained in effect ever since. [8] [9] The first playoff game requiring overtime was the 1958 NFL Championship Game. The 1955 and 1960 NFL championship games were played on Monday afternoons, Christmas having fallen on a Sunday in those years.
In 2017, the NFL shortened overtime from 15 minutes to 10 minutes for regular season games with the intent of reducing the risk of injury. [52] [53] Through Week 16 of the 2024 season, a total of 111 regular season games went to overtime under these rules, 7 (6.3%) of which ended in a tie.
Now each team will get to possess the ball during overtime in the postseason — but only then.
The NFL owners approved a new rule Tuesday that gives each team at least one possession in overtime playoff games. Those changes could directly impact Patrick Mahomes, who’s already seen his ...
Early championships between 1920 and 1932 were awarded to the team with the best won-lost record, initially rather haphazardly, as some teams played more or fewer games than others, or scheduled games against non-league, amateur or collegiate teams; this led to the 1920 title being determined during a league meeting after the season, [3] the 1921 title being decided on a controversial ...
The ending of last year's playoff game between the Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs helped prompt the NFL to change its postseason overtime rules. NFL has a new overtime rule for the playoffs ...