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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 ...
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.
NFL wild card playoff schedule The NFL's divisional round will see games played on both Saturday and Sunday. There will be two games played on each day, and the action will begin with the Chiefs ...
Elizabeth Flores, USA TODAY. ... securing a bye week and the No. 1 seed in the AFC. ... NFL playoff schedule: Wild-card games results Saturday, January 11:
Their most recent playoff meeting came in the 2014 AFC Wild Card round, when the Ravens beat the Steelers 30–17. The two teams split the regular season series, with the Steelers winning 18–16 in Pittsburgh in Week 11 and the Ravens winning 34–17 in Baltimore in Week 16. This was Amazon Prime Video's first exclusive NFL playoff game.
The league eventually revisited and implemented the 14-team playoff format in 2020, placing a third wild-card team in each conference, and only giving the top seed a bye (as explained above). [ 47 ] [ 48 ] For the first four years of this expanded playoff format, the league branded the opening round as "Super Wild Card Weekend" to help ...
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 ...
The league also had a contingency plan to postpone Super Bowl XLVI one week, which (assuming a full playoff schedule, but eliminating the bye-week before the Super Bowl and moving the Super Bowl back one week) would allow a 14-game schedule with all six division games for each team to be played beginning as late as October 16.