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NFL playoff bracket 2026: Updated schedule, TV channels, scores for AFC and NFC games<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 2025 NFL regular season has come to a close, which means it is now time to turn attention to the NFL postseason.<\/p>\n

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Fourteen teams clinched a playoff spot and were competing for the chance to play in Super Bowl 60, until the wild-card round knocked six teams out of the competition. Now, eight remain in the hunt for the Lombardi Trophy.<\/p>\n

With the Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> missing the playoffs for the first time in the Patrick Mahomes era, every team that makes the playoffs will see this as a prime opportunity to take advantage of their absence. However, the lack of a clear-cut top team will make this year’s playoffs even more interesting.<\/p>\n

Here is a breakdown of the entire NFL bracket, including start times, TV networks and matchups.<\/p>\n

NFL HQ:Live NFL scores<\/a> | Updated NFL standings<\/a> | Full NFL schedule<\/a><\/p>\n

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NFL playoff bracket 2026\"\"Wild-card round<\/p>\n

AFC<\/p>\n

1. Denver Broncos<\/a> (BYE)
2. New England Patriots 16, 7. Los Angeles Chargers<\/a> 3
6. Buffalo Bills 27, 3 Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> 24
5. Houston Texans 30,\u00a04. Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> 6<\/p>\n

NFC<\/p>\n

1. Seattle Seahawks<\/a> (BYE)
2. Chicago Bears 31,\u00a0No. 7 Green Bay Packers<\/a> 27
6. San Francisco 49ers 23, 3. Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> 19
5. Los Angeles Rams 34, 4.\u00a0Carolina Panthers<\/a> 31<\/p>\n

Divisional round<\/p>\n

AFC<\/p>\n

1. Denver Broncos 33,\u00a06. Buffalo Bills 30 (OT)
2. New England Patriots 28, No. 5 Houston Texans<\/a> 16<\/p>\n

NFC<\/p>\n

1. Seattle Seahawks 41, 6. San Francisco 49ers 6
5. Los Angeles Rams 20,\u00a02. Chicago Bears 17 (OT)<\/p>\n

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Championship round<\/p>\n

AFC<\/p>\n

1. Denver Broncos vs. 2. New England Patriots<\/p>\n

NFC<\/p>\n

Seattle Seahawks vs. Los Angeles Rams<\/p>\n

Super Bowl<\/p>\n

TBD vs. TBD<\/p>\n

NFL Playoff schedule 2026Wild-card round<\/p>\n

Saturday, Jan. 10<\/p>\n

Matchup<\/p>\n

Location<\/p>\n

Time (ET)<\/p>\n

TV Channel<\/p>\n

Rams 34, Panthers 31<\/p>\n

Charlotte, NC<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Bears 31,\u00a0Packers 27<\/p>\n

Chicago, IL<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Sunday, Jan. 11<\/p>\n

Matchup<\/p>\n

Location<\/p>\n

Time (ET)<\/p>\n

TV Channel<\/p>\n

Bills 27, Jaguars 24<\/p>\n

Jacksonville, FL<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

49ers 23, Eagles 19<\/p>\n

Philadelphia, PA<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Patriots 16, Chargers 3<\/p>\n

Foxboro, MA<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Monday, Jan. 12<\/p>\n

Matchup<\/p>\n

Location<\/p>\n

Time (ET)<\/p>\n

TV Channel<\/p>\n

Texans 30,\u00a0Steelers 6<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh, PA<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Divisional Round<\/p>\n

Saturday, Jan. 17<\/p>\n

Matchup<\/p>\n

Location<\/p>\n

Time (ET)<\/p>\n

TV Channel<\/p>\n

Broncos 33, Bills 30 (OT)<\/p>\n

Denver, CO<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Seahawks 41, 49ers 6<\/p>\n

Seattle, WA<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

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

Matchup<\/p>\n

Location<\/p>\n

Time (ET)<\/p>\n

TV Channel<\/p>\n

Patriots 28, Texans 16<\/p>\n

Foxborough, MA<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Rams 20, Bears 17 (OT)<\/p>\n

Chicago, IL<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Championship round<\/p>\n

Sunday, Jan. 25<\/p>\n

Matchup<\/p>\n

Location<\/p>\n

Time (ET)<\/p>\n

TV Channel<\/p>\n

Patriots vs. Broncos<\/p>\n

Denver, CO<\/p>\n

3 p.m.<\/p>\n

CBS<\/p>\n

Rams vs. Seahawks<\/p>\n

Seattle, WA<\/p>\n

6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

Fox<\/p>\n

Super Bowl<\/p>\n

Sunday, Feb. 8<\/p>\n

Matchup<\/p>\n

Location<\/p>\n

Time (ET)<\/p>\n

TV Channel<\/p>\n

TBD<\/p>\n

Santa Clara, Ca.<\/p>\n

6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

NBC<\/p>\n

TV channels, live streams for NFL playoff games<\/p>\n

All the usual networks and streaming services will broadcast at least one playoff game this year. CBS, Fox, NBC, ESPN and Amazon will all get a game in the wild-card round, with either CBS, Fox or NBC getting to broadcast two games in the first week.<\/p>\n

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For the divisional round of the playoffs, CBS, Fox, NBC and ESPN will all probably get one game apiece, while CBS and Fox will then get a game each for the conference championship round. Finally, NBC will close the season with the Super Bowl broadcast in February.<\/p>\n

When do the NFL playoffs end 2026?<\/p>\n

Wild-card round: Jan. 10-12<\/p>\n

Divisional round: Jan. 17-18<\/p>\n

Conference championships: Jan. 25<\/p>\n

The NFL playoffs will begin on Jan. 10 and continue for the next three consecutive weeks. Then, after a week off, the season will wrap up on Sunday, Feb. 8 with Super Bowl 60 in Santa Clara, CA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL playoff bracket 2026: Updated schedule, TV channels, scores for AFC and NFC games originally appeared on The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[77],"tags":[53,260,692,391,231,258,7,345,253,125,110,262,58,249,6,1122,84,499,109,57,252,261,505,45392],"class_list":{"0":"post-774846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-playoffs","8":"tag-buffalo-bills","9":"tag-carolina-panthers","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-bears","12":"tag-denver","13":"tag-denver-broncos","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-green-bay-packers","16":"tag-houston-texans","17":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","18":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","19":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","20":"tag-los-angeles-rams","21":"tag-new-england-patriots","22":"tag-nfl","23":"tag-nfl-playoff","24":"tag-nfl-playoffs","25":"tag-patrick-mahomes","26":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","27":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","28":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","29":"tag-seattle-seahawks","30":"tag-super-bowl","31":"tag-tv-channel"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116129983807932345","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774846","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=774846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}