{"id":670906,"date":"2026-01-12T08:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/670906\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T08:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:01:10","slug":"nfl-divisional-round-schedule-rams-bears-date-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/670906\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL divisional round schedule: Rams-Bears date revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 11, 2026, 8:15 p.m. PT<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/los-angeles-rams\/343\" data-autotag=\"f489e821-d3f9-4cff-bec5-7eaa0f4b51cb\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Los Angeles Rams<\/a> advanced to the divisional round of the playoffs with a 34-31 win over the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/carolina-panthers\/364\" data-autotag=\"8afac4d1-41b4-4302-b154-b45f5b48a0d2\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Carolina Panthers<\/a> on Saturday, the second straight year they&#8217;ve won at least one playoff game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theramswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/rams\/2026\/01\/11\/nfc-playoffs-rams-opponent-divisional-round-bears\/88135445007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">They will visit the Chicago Bears<\/a> at Soldier Field with a trip to the NFC title game on the line. The NFL announced the Rams and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/chicago-bears\/326\" data-autotag=\"69c69e75-f807-4542-90d2-619e6d4a23b1\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Bears<\/a> will square off on Sunday, but the time of the game is still to be determined. The league will share the time after Monday night&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/houston-texans\/325\" data-autotag=\"4fdb1a06-1d90-42ff-b7f7-5268ecaf7955\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Texans<\/a>-Steelers game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The time slots for Sunday are 3 p.m. ET and 6:30 p.m. ET, so the Rams and Bears will play at one of those times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">This is the first playoff meeting between the Rams and Bears since the 1985 season, which was a 24-0 win by Chicago at home. These two teams did not play against each other this season, last going toe to toe in 2024 when the Bears won at home, 24-18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theramswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/rams\/2026\/01\/11\/rams-bears-odds-spread-over-under-divisional-round\/88135555007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Rams are 4.5-point favorites<\/a> in this matchup with the Bears. If they win and the 49ers also advance, Los Angeles will host the NFC Championship Game.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><img class=\"gnt_em_cp_cw_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768204870_348_86373428007-square-1.jpg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 11, 2026, 8:15 p.m. PT The Los Angeles Rams advanced to the divisional round of the playoffs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2070],"tags":[95878,374,692,391,2493,7,6,95922,95923,95882,96059,96089,95953,95924,95944,95896,95888,95895,95906,96177,95902,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-670906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bears","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-bears","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-bears","12":"tag-chicagobears","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnflrams","16":"tag-sstsnrams","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagcarolina-panthers","19":"tag-tagchicago-bears","20":"tag-taghouston-texans","21":"tag-taglos-angeles-rams","22":"tag-tagnational-football-conference","23":"tag-tagnational-sports","24":"tag-tagnfl","25":"tag-tagnfl-hub","26":"tag-tagoverall-positive","27":"tag-tagsmg-breaking-wire","28":"tag-tagsport-scores-statistics","29":"tag-tagsports-news","30":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115881082233861212","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670906","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=670906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}