Chicago Bears 3. Seattle Seahawks vs. Los Angeles Rams 4. Washington Football Team vs. That's because of the expanded playoff field from six qualifiers to seven qualifiers in each conference. When six teams made it, two teams on each side got a bye, but that's no longer the case.
The reason for the altered bye total is to end up in the divisional round with four teams on each side. That way, it splits evenly from eight teams alive to four teams alive to two teams in the Super Bowl. To do that in a team bracket, you need 12 of the teams to play in the first round, because then you get six winners with the two teams on bye added in.
There's a lot of angles to come at this question, but they basically all come down to money. An expanded playoff field means conceptually more teams are in the hunt during the final weeks of the regular season, meaning more fan bases are invested in results.
Once you're in the playoffs, it also equals more attention because two extra fan groups are involved. Add in the alteration to the bye schedule that creates two more games in the first round, and it's obvious that even just a two-team increase in the postseason means a ton to the NFL's bottom line. Now that the No. The main one is this: Two rounds of home-field advantage.
The No. That of course requires a first-round win by the No. American Football. Only the No. The seeding system remained largely unaltered. The four division winners in the two conferences secured the top four seeds, regardless of their regular season record.
This explains why the Washington Football Team is ranked as the No. The Bills, seeking their first playoff victory since the season, are ranked No. The Saints and the Seahawks clinched No. The three wild card teams in the two conferences snagged the fifth, sixth and seventh seeds based on their regular season record.
The worst record will get seed 7 seed and play seed 2 of the division winners, while the team in the middle will be seeded 6 and play the 3 seed. There are 3 wild card teams from each conference.
I define a "true" bracket as a tournament where the winner of each game moves directly over in the bracket. The NFL Playoff bracket rearranges the bracket in the second round so that the highest seed 1 in each conference plays the lowest remaining seed in the same conference.
The wildcard round is a bit more complex but easy to understand even for people who don't know anything about American football. Each conference offers 3 special passes called Wildcards where three teams have the opportunity to access the divisional round if they manage to win , conference title game and super bowl.
They are also known as Seed No. The teams that play in the wildcard round are those that have the top three records after division winners at the end of the regular season. In the three NFC teams that made the playoffs through the wildcard were:.
The teams' games in the wildcard round will be against the teams that won the divisions and had the best records after the two teams that received the free pass bye for the divisional round. Game 1: No.
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