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In 1982, the league held a 16-team tournament due to the players strike, which reduced the regular season to just 9 games. The playoffs expanded to 12 teams for the 1990 season, and again to 14 teams for the 2020 season, with an additional game added to this week in each year. Teams who later went on to win the Super Bowl that season are in bold.
The NFL does not use a fixed bracket playoff system, and there are 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 hosts the sixth-seed wild card, and the fourth seed hosts the fifth.
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). Instead of playing both Wild Card games on the same day ...
The NFL playoffs begin this weekend as the best teams in both conferences contend for the Super Bowl title. This will be the fifth consecutive season since the NFL expanded to a 14-team playoff ...
Here are the Week 14 bold predictions from USA TODAY Sports' NFL reporters and writers: Isaac Guerendo will rush for at least 100 yards in his first NFL start for the 49ers
Dalton then led the team to the Colts' 39-yard line, where Mike Nugent made a 57-yard field goal, the second longest kick in NFL playoff history, cutting the score to 13–10 going into halftime. The Colts' defense dominated the Bengals in the second half, forcing them to a three-and-out on their first four drives.
There was endless politicking by coaches, athletic directors and fans, but the College Football Playoff selection committee settled on a 12-team field in the end and now it's time to make some picks.
The 2014 NFL season was the 95th season in the history of the National Football League (NFL) and the 49th of the Super Bowl era. The season began on Thursday, September 4, 2014, with the annual kickoff game featuring the defending Super Bowl XLVIII champion Seattle Seahawks hosting the Green Bay Packers , which resulted with the Seahawks winning.