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AFC champion vs. NFC champion, 6:30 p.m. ET, Fox This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: 2025 NFL playoff schedule: Dates, times, TV info for wild card games Show comments
Here's the full schedule for the NFL playoffs this year: Super wild-card weekend: Saturday, Jan. 11 to Monday, Jan. 13 Divisional round: Saturday, Jan. 18 and Sunday, Jan. 19
The divisional round of the playoffs is up next. NFL divisional round schedule, playoff bracket: Chiefs, Lions back in action after postseason bye week
In 2006, ESPN took over as the exclusive rights holder to Monday Night Football, and the ABC Sports division was merged into ESPN Inc. by parent company Disney. Afterward, ABC did not broadcast any game from the NFL, whether exclusive or a simulcast from ESPN, until they simulcasted an NFL Wild Card playoff game in 2016.
The names of the first two playoff rounds date back to the postseason format that was first used in 1978, when the league added a second wild-card team to each conference. The first round of the playoffs is dubbed the wild-card round, wild-card weekend, or, from 2020–21 to 2023–24, super wild-card weekend. [4]
The National Football League playoffs for the 2021 season was the first time that the league featured a 17-game regular season schedule, and consequently the start of the playoffs was pushed a week later to January 15, 2022. [1]
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.
NFL playoff schedule: Super Bowl 58 The Super Bowl will take place on Sunday, Feb. 11 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nev. Kickoff is already set for 6:30 p.m. ET. The game will air on CBS.