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The 1998 NFL season was the 79th regular season of the National Football League (NFL). The season culminated with Super Bowl XXXIII , with the Denver Broncos defeating the Atlanta Falcons 34–19 at Pro Player Stadium in Miami.
The NFL did not use a fixed bracket playoff system, and there were no restrictions regarding teams from the same division matching up in any round. In the first round, dubbed the wild-card playoffs or wild-card weekend , the third-seeded division winner hosted the sixth seed wild card, and the fourth seed hosted the fifth.
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.
This was the first NFC Championship Game to go to overtime (since, there have already been five other instances, with the 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014 and 2018 NFC Championship Games going to overtime). This was the second postseason meeting between the Falcons and Vikings. Minnesota won the only prior meeting. [2]
The 1998 National Football Conference (NFC) Championship Game was the 29th title game [a] of the NFC. This National Football League (NFL) playoff game was played on January 17, 1999, to determine the NFC champion for the 1998 NFL season.
Rose Bowl (1997 season): The Michigan Wolverines won 21–16 over the Washington State Cougars to win the AP Poll national championship; The Orange Bowl was the original venue for the championship game, but the Big Ten Conference was not a part of the Bowl Alliance, so the game instead featured the #2 Nebraska Cornhuskers and the #3 Tennessee ...
Virginia won the championship the next season. Bracket tip: Since the bracket expanded to 64 teams in 1985, No. 9 seeds have a slight edge over No. 8s. In this region, TCU is the No. 9, Utah State ...
The 1998 season was the Minnesota Vikings' 38th in the National Football League (NFL). The Vikings became the third team in NFL history to win 15 games during the regular season, [1] which earned them the National Football Conference (NFC) Central division championship and the first overall seed in the NFC playoffs.