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The American Football Conference – Northern Division or AFC North is one of the four divisions of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The division was created after the NFL realigned its divisions upon expanding to 32 teams, with the 2002 NFL season marking the league's first season following this ...
This category lists the seasons of NFL football teams that won the AFC North Division Championship. Pages in category "AFC North championship seasons" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
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 happened ...
If the NFL season ended today, all four of the teams in the AFC North would be in the playoffs, which would mark a first for any division.
However, only the top two division winners in each conference (the 1 and 2 seeds) received byes and automatically advanced to the Divisional Playoffs as host teams. The 3 seed, the division winner with the worst regular-season record in each conference, would then host the 6 seed in the Wild Card Playoffs. [14] [15] [16]
No. 2 Buffalo Bills (13-3, AFC East winners) vs. No. 7 Denver Broncos (9-7, wild card No. 3) Buffalo's Week 17 win over the New York Jets clinched the No. 2 seed in the conference.
Thanks to the Bengals, who beat the Browns 31-14 on Sunday afternoon, the AFC North made NFL history. AFC North becomes first division post-NFL merger to have all 4 teams finish with a winning ...
The redesigned Lamar Hunt Trophy, awarded since 2010–11 season. The structure of the NFL playoffs has changed several times since 1970. At the end of each regular season, the top teams in the AFC qualify for the postseason, including all division champions (three division winners from the 1970–71 to 2001–02 seasons; four since the 2002–03 season) and a set number of "wild card" teams ...