{"id":394928,"date":"2026-01-06T08:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/394928\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T08:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:19:08","slug":"2025-nfl-playoffs-bracket-schedule-wild-card-matchups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/394928\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 NFL playoffs: Bracket, schedule, wild-card matchups"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NFL playoffs will begin Saturday, Jan. 10<\/a> with the first two wild-card round games. And the complete playoff field, bracket and seedings<\/a> are now set.<\/p>\n

Wild-card weekend<\/a> will feature games on Jan. 10, 11 and 12. Games in the divisional round<\/a> will be on Jan. 17 and 18. The conference title<\/a> matchups will be on Jan. 25. Super Bowl LX<\/a> will be played Feb. 8 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.<\/p>\n

Here is what we know about the AFC and NFC brackets.<\/p>\n

See more:
First look at the playoff field<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"NFC bracket<\/p>\n

(7) Green Bay Packers<\/a> at (2) Chicago Bears<\/a>
Saturday, Jan. 10 at 8 p.m. ET (Prime Video)<\/a><\/p>\n

(6) San Francisco 49ers<\/a> at (3) Philadelphia Eagles<\/a>
Sunday, Jan. 11 at 4:30 p.m. ET (Fox)<\/a><\/p>\n

(5) Los Angeles Rams<\/a> at (4) Carolina Panthers<\/a>
Saturday, Jan. 10 at 4:30 p.m. ET (Fox)<\/a><\/p>\n

Bye: (1) Seattle Seahawks<\/a><\/p>\n

Editor’s Picks<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

1 Related<\/p>\n

\"\"AFC bracket<\/p>\n

(7) Los Angeles Chargers<\/a> at (2) New England Patriots<\/a>
Sunday, Jan. 11 at 8 p.m. ET (NBC)<\/a><\/p>\n

(6) Buffalo Bills<\/a> at (3) Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a>
Sunday, Jan. 11 at 1 p.m. ET (CBS)<\/a><\/p>\n

(5) Houston Texans<\/a> at (4) Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a>
Monday, Jan. 12 at 8:15 p.m. ET (ESPN\/ABC)<\/a><\/p>\n

Bye: (1) Denver Broncos<\/a><\/p>\n

Two divisional round games will be Saturday, and two will be Sunday.<\/p>\n

The Broncos and Seahawks will play their first playoff games during the divisional round.<\/p>\n

NFL Playoff Bracket\u00a0NFL Playoff BracketSuper Bowl LX<\/a>: Feb. 8 (Levi’s Stadium, Santa Clara, Calif.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL playoffs will begin Saturday, Jan. 10 with the first two wild-card round games. And the complete…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-394928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}