{"id":106000,"date":"2026-01-05T08:02:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T08:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/106000\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T08:02:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T08:02:25","slug":"jacksonville-jaguars-afc-wild-card-playoff-opponent-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/106000\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Jaguars AFC wild-card playoff opponent revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the regular season now in the rearview mirror for the Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a>, we know who they will be facing in the AFC wildcard round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n

With Sunday’s win<\/a> over the Tennessee Titans, the Jaguars<\/a> clinched the AFC South title and retained the three seed in the conference.<\/p>\n

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With some help from the LA Chargers and\/or the Miami Dolphins<\/a>, the Jaguars could have moved up to either the one or two seed; however, both Denver and New England would win those matchups.<\/p>\n

So the Broncos<\/a> earned the one seed and the bye, while the Patriots are the two seed and the Jaguars the three seed.<\/p>\n

This means that the Jaguars will host the AFC’s No. 6 seed, which ended up being the Buffalo Bills<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Bills finished the season with a record of 12-5. The Buffalo offense ranks sixth<\/a> in points per game on offense and 13th in points per game allowed on defense.<\/p>\n

The Jaguars will enter the playoffs on an eight-game winning streak and possess one of the hottest offenses in football over the second half of the season, led by Trevor Lawrence.<\/p>\n

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The Jacksonville defense also continues to generate turnovers at a high rate and keep points off the board.<\/p>\n

(Please note that this article will be updated.)<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Jaguars Wire: Who will Jacksonville Jaguars play in AFC wild-card round of playoffs?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the regular season now in the rearview mirror for the Jacksonville Jaguars, we know who they will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[27027,9788,22207,20345,116,118,121,117,54574,1763,54575,10489,12004,10836,27026,5011],"class_list":["post-106000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-afc-south","tag-broncos","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-denver","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-la-chargers","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-michael-dirocco","tag-new-england","tag-patriots","tag-tennessee-titans","tag-the-afc","tag-trevor-lawrence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}