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2017–18 NFL playoffs. The National Football League playoffs for the 2017 season began with the wild-card round on January 6, 2018, and concluded with Super Bowl LII on February 4, 2018, when the Philadelphia Eagles defeated the New England Patriots at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Several teams broke long playoff droughts, as ...
Jan 11, 2023 · 2017 NFL Playoff Bracket and Scores. Wild Card Round. No. 4 NFC seed Saints 31, No. 5 NFC seed Panthers 26. No. 6 NFC seed Falcons 26, No. 3 NFC seed Rams 13. No. 3 AFC seed Jaguars 10, No. 6 AFC seed Bills 3. No. 5 AFC seed Titans 22, No. 4 AFC seed Chiefs 21. Divisional Round.
The 2017 NFL season was the 98th season in the history of the National Football League (NFL) and the 52nd of the Super Bowl era. The season began on September 7, 2017, with the Kansas City Chiefs defeating the defending Super Bowl LI champion New England Patriots in the NFL Kickoff Game .
- Current Playoff System
- Breaking Ties
- Overtime Rules
- Current Playoff Appearance Streaks
- All-Time Streaks of Accomplishment
- See Also
- Further Reading
- External Links
The 32-team National Football League is divided into two conferences, the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference(NFC). Since 2002, each conference has 16 teams and is further divided into four geographic divisions of four teams each. As of 2020, qualification into the playoffs works as follows: 1. The four division ...
Often, teams will finish a season with identical records. It becomes necessary, therefore, to devise means to break these ties, either to determine which teams will qualify for the playoffs or to determine seeding in the playoff tournament. The rules below are applied in order until the tie is broken. Ties within divisions are always broken first t...
The NFL introduced overtime for any divisional tiebreaker games beginning in 1940 and for championship games beginning in 1946. The first postseason game to be played under these rules was the 1958 NFL Championship Game between the Baltimore Colts and New York Giants (the so-called "Greatest Game Ever Played"), decided by a one-yard touchdown run b...
Bold italics including longest streakindicates that the streak is also the team's longest-ever streak for consecutive playoff seasons.
Notable current streaks in the table are listed below in bold. Only the longest streak for each team is listed. Note that the regular season increased from 14 to 16 games in 1978, then to the current 17 in 2021, and teams only played 9 regular-season games in 1982. All streaks can be verified on the team pages at Pro-Football-Reference.com.
2006 NFL Record and Fact Book. Time Inc. Home Entertainment. July 25, 2006. ISBN 1-933405-32-5.Total Football II: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Football League. HarperCollins. July 25, 2006. ISBN 1-933405-32-5.News, Sporting (February 1995). The Sporting News Complete Super Bowl Book 1995. Sporting News Publishing Company. ISBN 0-89204-523-X. {{cite book}}: |last1= has generic name (help)The official scoreboard of the NFL including live scoring and real-time highlights. The official source for NFL news, video highlights, fantasy football, game-day coverage, schedules, stats ...
Jan 1, 2017 · The 2017 NFL playoffs are here. Find out the matchups and get the complete schedule for this year’s playoffs. Super Bowl 51 kicks off at 6:30 p.m. ET on Sunday, Feb. 5 at NRG Stadium in Houston ...
2017 NFL Playoff Standings. The following are the final 2017 NFL Playoff Standings. Playoff positioning is determined using the NFL Tie-Breaking Procedures. x - Clinched Playoff Spot, y - Clinched Division, z - Clinched Home Field
