{"id":647515,"date":"2026-01-02T07:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T07:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/647515\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T07:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T07:15:14","slug":"afc-playoff-standings-buffalo-bills-rooting-guide-in-week-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/647515\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC playoff standings, Buffalo Bills’ rooting guide in Week 18"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Buffalo Bills<\/a> have business to handle in the final game of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n

The Bills (11-5) will host the New York Jets (3-13) in this year’s finale.<\/p>\n

Heading in to the clash, Buffalo is locked in a playoff spot. But the Bills, holding the No. 7 seed, can improve their standing as high as the fifth position in the AFC.<\/p>\n

So how does this all shape out right now?<\/p>\n

Here are the full Week 18 AFC standings and who every team is facing:<\/p>\n

Record: 2-14.<\/p>\n

Next game: vs. Chiefs.<\/p>\n

15. Jets-e<\/p>\n

Record: 3-13.<\/p>\n

Next game: vs. Bills.<\/p>\n

14. Titans-e<\/p>\n

Record: 3-13.<\/p>\n

Next game: vs. Jaguars.<\/p>\n

13. Browns-e<\/p>\n

Record: 4-12.<\/p>\n

Next game: vs. Bengals.<\/p>\n

12. Chiefs-e<\/p>\n

Record: 6-10.<\/p>\n

Next game: vs. Raiders.<\/p>\n

11. Bengals-e<\/p>\n

Record: 6-10.<\/p>\n

Next game: vs. Browns.<\/p>\n

10. Dolphins-e<\/p>\n

Record: 7-9.<\/p>\n

Next game: vs. Patriots.<\/p>\n

9. Colts-e<\/p>\n

Record: 8-8.<\/p>\n

Next game: vs. Texans<\/a>.<\/p>\n

8. Ravens<\/p>\n

Record: 8-8.<\/p>\n

Next game: vs. Steelers.<\/p>\n

—–Playoff teams—–<\/p>\n

7. Bills-x<\/p>\n

Record: 11-5.<\/p>\n

Next game: vs. Jets.<\/p>\n

6. Chargers-x<\/p>\n

Record: 11-5.<\/p>\n

Next game: vs. Broncos<\/a>.<\/p>\n

5. Texans-x<\/p>\n

Record: 11-5.<\/p>\n

Next game: vs. Colts.<\/p>\n

4. Steelers (AFC North leader)<\/p>\n

Record: 9-7.<\/p>\n

Next game: vs. Ravens.<\/p>\n

3. Jaguars (AFC South)-x<\/p>\n

Record: 12-4.<\/p>\n

Next game: vs. Titans.<\/p>\n

2. Patriots (AFC East)-x<\/p>\n

Record: 13-3.<\/p>\n

Next game: vs. Dolphins.<\/p>\n

1. Broncos (AFC West)-x<\/p>\n

Record: 13-3.<\/p>\n

Next game: vs. Chargers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Bills have business to handle in the final game of the 2025 season. The Bills (11-5)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[115,1466,247,265,825,215,232,214,53,2086,324,231,258,7,221,253,20842,523,393,1184,246,88,6,35196,245,264,537,530,525,818,1602,2517,327,817,829,9,266,819,222,776,524],"class_list":["post-647515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-buffalo-bills","tag-afc","tag-afc-south","tag-american","tag-american-football","tag-american-football-conference","tag-bills","tag-broncos","tag-buffalo","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-buffalobills","tag-conference","tag-denver","tag-denver-broncos","tag-football","tag-houston","tag-houston-texans","tag-hub","tag-las","tag-las-vegas-raiders","tag-listicle","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-hub","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-overall-positive","tag-positive","tag-raiders","tag-scores","tag-smg","tag-smg-listicle","tag-south","tag-sport","tag-sport-scores-u0026-statistics","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-statistics","tag-texans","tag-u0026","tag-vegas"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647515","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=647515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}