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NFL WEEK 7 GAME PICKS: Expert predictions for every matchup NFL playoff picture: Bracket before Week 7 NFC. Bye: No. 1 seed Minnesota Vikings (5-0). Wild card game: No. 7 seed Green Bay Packers at ...
For example, in MLB's 12-team playoffs, the No. 6 seed – the worst of three wild-card teams – plays the No. 3 seed, with the winner of the three-game series guaranteed to play the No. 1 seed ...
The NFL expanded its playoff field from 12 to 14 ahead of the 2020 NFL season, making the 2021 NFL playoffs the first time only one team had not gotten a bye week.
Under the previous playoff format, the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds in each conference got a bye in the first round of the playoffs. That changed with the expanded playoff first instituted in the 2020 ...
This was the fourth meeting between the Eagles and Rams in NFL playoff history, with the Rams having won two of the three prior matchups; the then-St. Louis Rams won 29–24 won the most recent playoff meeting in the 2001 NFC Championship Game at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis. In the regular season, the Eagles defeated the Rams 37–20 ...
With the current playoff format, only one team in each conference earns a first-round bye. In the AFC, the Kansas City Chiefs had the week off by way of securing the No. 1 seed.
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 ...
One-game playoffs were used in Major League Baseball (MLB) through the 2021 season. When two or more MLB teams were tied for a division championship or the wild card playoff berth (1995–2011, or starting in 2012, the second only) at the end of the regular season, a one-game playoff was used to determine the winner.