{"id":1403,"date":"2025-04-26T10:37:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T10:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1403\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T10:37:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T10:37:20","slug":"nfl-playoffs-nfc-and-afc-bracket-schedules-kickoff-times-for-divisional-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1403\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL playoffs: NFC and AFC bracket, schedules, kickoff times for divisional round"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fourteen teams entered, and eight remain. The NFL playoffs<\/a> are on to the divisional round following a six-game wild card slate<\/a> with four teams in each conference still in the hunt for a spot in Super Bowl 59<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The first round saw no surprises in the AFC as the higher seeds won each matchup. The Houston Texans<\/a> kicked off the wild card round with a dominant 32-12 win<\/a> over the Los Angeles Chargers<\/a>. In a third installment of their divisional rivalry this season, the Baltimore Ravens<\/a> beat the Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> 28-14<\/a>. The Buffalo Bills<\/a> took care of business 31-7<\/a> over the Denver Broncos<\/a> to wrap up the AFC wild-card round.<\/p>\n

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The same can’t be said for the NFC. The Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> started things off in the conference with a dominant 22-10 win<\/a> over the Green Bay Packers<\/a>. But their division foe Washington<\/a> went on the road against Tampa Bay<\/a> and earned a 23-20 upset win<\/a>. Though the Los Angeles Rams<\/a> were the higher seed, they were underdogs. However, they made a statement with a 27-9 win<\/a> over the Minnesota Vikings<\/a>, the first 14-win wild card team in NFL history.<\/p>\n

With that first step of the tournament in the rear view, here’s what to expect in the divisional round.<\/p>\n

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NFL playoff bracketAFC<\/p>\n

Divisional round<\/p>\n

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Conference championship<\/p>\n

Divisional round winners, higher seed hosts<\/p>\n

NFC<\/p>\n

Conference championship<\/p>\n

Divisional round winners face off and the higher seed hosts<\/p>\n

Super Bowl 59<\/p>\n

Conference championship winners play at a neutral site<\/p>\n

This year’s Super Bowl will be played at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans.<\/p>\n

NFL playoff schedule, TVDivisional playoff<\/p>\n

Saturday, Jan. 18<\/p>\n

Kansas City Chiefs vs. Houston Texans: 4:30 p.m. ET, ESPN\/ABC<\/p>\n

Detroit Lions vs. Washington Commanders: 8 p.m. ET, FOX<\/p>\n

Sunday, Jan. 19<\/p>\n

Philadelphia Eagles vs. Los Angeles Rams: 3 p.m. ET, NBC<\/p>\n

Buffalo Bills vs. Baltimore Ravens: 6:30 p.m. ET, CBS<\/p>\n

Conference championship<\/p>\n

Sunday, Jan. 26<\/p>\n

NFC conference championship: 3 p.m. ET, FOX<\/p>\n

AFC conference championship: 6:30 p.m. ET, CBS<\/p>\n

Super Bowl<\/p>\n

Sunday, Feb. 9<\/p>\n

Super Bowl 59: 6:30 p.m. ET, FOX<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: NFL playoffs schedule: Divisional round bracket, teams, kickoff times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fourteen teams entered, and eight remain. The NFL playoffs are on to the divisional round following a six-game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[117,53,258,113,422,7,345,253,110,262,58,259,896,6,84,109,57,505,824,1743,111],"class_list":{"0":"post-1403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-playoffs","8":"tag-baltimore-ravens","9":"tag-buffalo-bills","10":"tag-denver-broncos","11":"tag-detroit-lions","12":"tag-divisional-round","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-green-bay-packers","15":"tag-houston-texans","16":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","17":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","18":"tag-los-angeles-rams","19":"tag-minnesota-vikings","20":"tag-new-orleans","21":"tag-nfl","22":"tag-nfl-playoffs","23":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","24":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","25":"tag-super-bowl","26":"tag-super-bowl-59","27":"tag-the-afc","28":"tag-washington-commanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114403832197786031","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}