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NFL playoffs schedule, bracket update for wild card weekend games
Many of the NFL’s 32 groups entered the 2024 season with a reputable likelihood to compete for a playoff spot. The common season is now over, and simply 14 groups are left standing for the 2025 NFL playoffs and march to Tremendous Bowl 59.
By the top of the league’s tremendous wild-card weekend, simply eight groups will stay.
The NFL playoff subject is loaded in 2025. Each group that made the postseason has at the very least 10 wins, whereas the Minnesota Vikings turned the league’s first wild-card group with 14 victories. That ought to stage the enjoying subject and provides most of the wild-card groups a reputable likelihood to drag off the upset.
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As such, the wild-card spherical of the postseason could possibly be extra thrilling than ordinary. Followers will wish to tune in to see as many video games as doable, and to see precisely who their group will likely be enjoying subsequent ought to they advance to the divisional spherical.
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Here is what to know in regards to the NFL’s wild-card weekend schedule and the way its playoff bracket will work in 2025.
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What NFL playoff video games are this weekend?
Six NFL playoff video games will likely be performed as a part of the league’s wild-card weekend. They’re as follows, by convention:
AFC wild-card video games
NFC wild-card video games
NFL wild card playoff schedule
The NFL’s wild-card video games will likely be unfold out over three days – Saturday, Sunday and Monday. There will likely be two video games Saturday, three on Sunday and a stand-alone “Monday Night time Soccer” sport to shut the week.
Beneath is a take a look at the total opening-round schedule.
Saturday NFL playoff video games
Sunday NFL playoff video games
Monday NFL playoff video games
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Up to date NFL playoff bracket
The one two groups that will not be in motion for wild-card weekend are the No. 1 seeds – the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and Detroit Lions – who earned byes for ending with the very best document in every convention.
The playoff bracket is not fastened. The No. 1 seeds will face the bottom remaining seed within the divisional spherical, leaving the 2 remaining groups to face off within the convention semifinals. The No. 1 seeds can solely play groups seeded Nos. 4-7 within the divisional spherical whereas the remaining seeds can play anybody however the No. 7 seed, which might mechanically draw the No. 1 seed with a victory.
Here’s a take a look at the total NFL playoff bracket for 2025, up to date for the wild card spherical outcomes:
AFC playoff bracket
NFC playoff bracket
How does the NFL playoff bracket work?
It is not a set bracket. The No. 1 seed in every convention will host the bottom remaining seed within the divisional spherical of the postseason, whereas the second-highest-remaining seed hosts the second-lowest remaining seed.
Prior to now, the No. 2 seed within the league bought a bye week. The NFL modified that rule in 2020, when it expanded its playoff subject from 12 to 14 and commenced having the No. 2 seed face the No. 7 seed, the latter of which beforehand did not make the postseason.
The brand new format creates a wider variation of potential matchups for the divisional spherical, because the No. 1 seed faces the potential of enjoying certainly one of 4 groups whereas the opposite squads may have as much as 4 totally different opponents primarily based on how the dominoes fall.
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When will wild card winners know divisional opponents?
In 2025, the NFL’s divisional-round bracket was set comparatively rapidly for the AFC. The highest seeds received every sport in that bracket and the divisional spherical matchups have been set by Sunday afternoon. The Chiefs will host the Texans and the Payments will host the Ravens.
The NFC divisional spherical bracket will likely be set in full after the Rams and Vikings sq. off on Monday evening. Nonetheless, the Sunday afternoon sport between the Eagles and Packers and the Sunday evening matchup between the Commanders and Buccaneers allowed NFC followers to get a clearer image of the playoff bracket.
Philadelphia’s win means the Eagles will face the winner of the Rams-Vikings sport. That additionally means the top-seeded Lions will host the Commanders, the bottom remaining seed within the NFC bracket after knocking off Tampa Bay.
Full NFL playoffs schedule
The NFL playoffs kick off on Saturday, Jan. 11 with the league’s tremendous wild-card weekend earlier than concluding on Feb. 9 with Tremendous Bowl 59 in New Orleans.
Wild-card spherical
All occasions Jap
Saturday, Jan. 11
Sunday, Jan. 12
Monday, Jan. 13
Divisional spherical
Saturday, Jan. 18
Sunday, Jan. 19
Convention championship spherical
Sunday, Jan. 26
- NFC championship sport: 3 p.m.
- AFC championship sport: 6:30 p.m.
Tremendous Bowl 59
- Date: Feb. 9, 2025
- Location: Caesars Superdome (New Orleans)
- Time: 6:30 p.m.
- TV: FOX
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