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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. AFC South created. Jacksonville and Tennessee moved from the old AFC Central. Indianapolis moved from the AFC East. Houston Texans enfranchised.
This category lists the seasons of NFL football teams that won the AFC Central Division Championship. Pages in category "AFC Central championship seasons" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total.
Pittsburgh finished with an 11–3 record in 1972, their first winning season in 9 years (1963), and won their first-ever AFC Central Division title. It was the Steelers' third-ever postseason appearance, first in ten seasons (the Playoff Bowl for third place in the league), and only its second playoff game since 1947.
The 1974 Pittsburgh Steelers season was the franchise's 42nd in the National Football League (NFL). They improved to a 10–3–1 regular-season record, won the AFC Central division title, sending them to the playoffs for the third consecutive season, and won a Super Bowl championship, the first league title in Steelers' history.
After finishing last in the Central Division of the NFL's Western Conference in 1967, the Minnesota Vikings won the division title the following season. [1] Their worst-to-first turnaround in 1968 makes them hold the distinction of being the only team to do so prior to the league's merger with the American Football League (AFL).
The 1970 Cincinnati Bengals season was the franchise's first season in the National Football League (NFL), and the third overall. The NFL-AFL merger took place before the season and the Bengals, who were placed in the same division as the "old-guard NFL" Cleveland Browns and Pittsburgh Steelers, were not expected to be playoff contenders.
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As was the case in 1967, the '71 Browns went 9–5 and won a division crown. They captured the AFC Central for the first time, finishing three games in front of the soon-to-emerge Pittsburgh Steelers (6–8). In the playoffs the Browns would fall in the first round 20–3 to the Baltimore Colts. Running back Leroy Kelly was on the downside of ...