{"id":408021,"date":"2026-01-12T09:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/408021\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T09:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:45:07","slug":"afc-and-nfc-divisional-round-games-bracket-seeding-dates-times-broadcast-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/408021\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC and NFC divisional round games, bracket, seeding, dates, times, broadcast schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NFC divisional-round matchups are confirmed after wildcard results went final on Monday morning<\/a> AEDT. <\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Rams, Chicago Bears and San Francisco 49ers all progressed in dramatic fashion<\/a>, while the AFC side of the slate has also started taking shape. <\/p>\n

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The Rams (5) prevailed over the gallant Carolina Panthers (4) despite a massive scare from the NFC South underdogs. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in an all-time playoffs comeback, the Bears (2) surged from 21-3 down at half-time to edge the Packers (7), 31-27. <\/p>\n

It means Chicago, which hadn\u2019t won a playoff game in 16 years, will host a divisional round matchup against the Rams. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s because the lowest remaining NFC seed, the San Francisco 49ers (6), will travel to play division rivals Seattle (1) after beating the Eagles 23-19 on Monday morning. <\/p>\n

The AFC playoff action, meanwhile, started with Josh Allen and his Buffalo Bills (6) edging the Jacksonville Jaguars (3) in a fourth-quarter thriller. <\/p>\n

Allen won his first road playoff game, taking the dark-horse Bills to the divisional round for the second-straight season, where they\u2019ll play the one-seed Broncos in Denver. <\/p>\n

Elsewhere, the New England Patriots (2) defeated the Los Angeles Chargers to book a home meeting with either the Houston Texans (5) or Pittsburgh Steelers (4). <\/p>\n

NFL PLAYOFF SCHEDULE & RESULTS AS IT STANDS (AEDT)<\/p>\n

Wild Card Round<\/p>\n

Sunday January 11<\/p>\n

No.5 Los Angeles Rams defeated No.4 Carolina<\/p>\n

No.2 Chicago defeated No.7 Green Bay<\/p>\n

Monday January 12<\/p>\n

No.6 Buffalo defeated No.3 Jacksonville<\/p>\n

No.6 San Francisco defeated No.3 Philadelphia<\/p>\n

No.2 New England defeated No.7 Los Angeles Chargers<\/p>\n

Tuesday January 12<\/p>\n

No.5 Houston at No.4 Pittsburgh @ 12.15pm<\/p>\n

Divisional Round<\/p>\n

Sunday January 18 to Monday January 19<\/p>\n

No.6 San Francisco at No.1 Seattle, Sunday January 18, time TBC<\/p>\n

No.5 Los Angeles Rams at No.2 Chicago, Monday January 19, time TBC<\/p>\n

No.6 Buffalo at No.1 Denver, Sunday January 18, time TBC<\/p>\n

Houston\/Pittsburgh at No.2 New England, Monday January 19, time TBC<\/p>\n

Conference Championships<\/p>\n

Monday January 26<\/p>\n

Super Bowl LVII<\/p>\n

Monday February 9, Levi\u2019s Stadium in Santa Clara, California<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFC divisional-round matchups are confirmed after wildcard results went final on Monday morning AEDT. The Los Angeles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[216191,2095,64,63,29751,1268,485,1257,5127,1248,3912,3897,216193,216196,2755,1243,5145,9286,3231,23167,481,1263,9139,216197,2041,2067,12274,5136,216192,188997,216195,6113,185495,5142,85,68089,3370,2614,216198,216194],"class_list":["post-408021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-all-time-playoffs-comeback","tag-america","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-broadcast-schedule","tag-caleb-williams","tag-california","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-bears","tag-colorado","tag-denver","tag-divisional-round","tag-divisional-round-games","tag-florida","tag-green-bay-packers","tag-houston","tag-illinois","tag-jack-jovanovski","tag-jacksonville","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-national-football-league","tag-new-look-divisional-round","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-playoff-football-game","tag-playoff-game","tag-playoffs-schedule","tag-san-francisco","tag-santa-clara","tag-seattle","tag-sports","tag-state-of-washington","tag-texas","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-wild-card-playoff-football","tag-wildcard-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408021","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=408021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}