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The NFL uses strength of schedule as a secondary tie-breaker for divisional rankings and playoff qualification, and as a primary tie-breaker for the NFL Draft. While the NFL has 32 teams, each team plays only 17 games against 14 other teams. [5]
The National Football League (NFL) regular season begins on the weekend following the first Monday of September (i.e., the weekend following the Labor Day holiday) and ends in early January, after which that season's playoffs tournament begins. It consists of 272 games, with each of the NFL's 32 teams playing 17 games during an 18-week period ...
The AFL-NFL merger and the creation of the Super Bowl forced the NFL to adopt its first guaranteed multi-game postseason format. In 1967, the NFL expanded to 16 teams and split its two conferences into two divisions of four teams each. The four division champions advanced to the playoffs. To remain on schedule, a tie-breaker system was introduced.
The Times' Sam Farmer analyzes each matchup and predicts the winners in NFL Week 16. The Cowboys will beat the Eagles while the Chargers win, and Rams lose.
The Bills (8-6) are right back in the playoff picture after back-to-back impressive wins against the Chiefs and Cowboys. Buffalo showed no mercy on its home field versus the red-hot Cowboys as it ...
The Times' Sam Farmer analyzes each matchup and predicts the winners of Week 16 of the 2021 NFL season.
Lions: (DEN, at MIN, at DAL) Jared Goff and road games rarely mix, but at least the Lions are climate-controlled for the fantasy playoffs. I will follow Sam LaPorta into a burning building. 9 ...
The current logo for the NFL draft. The NFL draft, officially known as the Annual Player Selection Meeting, [1][2] is an annual event which serves as the most common source of player recruitment in the National Football League. Each team is given a position in the drafting order in reverse order relative to its record in the previous year ...