Jan. 5, 2026, 12:18 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
The Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> will host the Buffalo Bills<\/a> in the wild-card round of the AFC playoffs.<\/p>\n Kickoff at EverBank Stadium will be at 1:00 PM ET<\/a> on Sunday. The game will be aired on CBS.<\/p>\n The Jaguars<\/a> will enter this game as one of the hottest teams in the NFL. This includes winning their last eight games, along with having one of the highest-scoring offenses during the second half of the season, and one of the stingiest defenses as well.<\/p>\n Buffalo finished the regular season 12-5. Led by Josh Allen, the Bills’ offense ranks sixth in points per game this season, while the defense ranks 13th in scoring.<\/p>\n Although we are still nearly a full week out from this game taking place, let’s take a look at some early predictions.<\/p>\n Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a>Jaguars vs. Bills early playoff predictions<\/p>\n Bleacher Report:Moe Moton<\/a> is picking the Bills to win 34-31 over Jacksonville.<\/p>\n “Allen’s ability to put on a cape under center and move the ball with his arm and legs tips the scales in Buffalo’s favor,” Moton wrote.<\/p>\n FOX Sports: Henry McKenna<\/a> is also picking the Bills in a close, high-scoring game. Buffalo 31, Jaguars 28.<\/p>\n “This postseason, I\u2019m trusting in\u00a0Josh Allen<\/a>,” McKenna wrote. “There might not be a hotter team in the NFL than the Jaguars, with quarterback\u00a0Trevor Lawrence<\/a>\u00a0reaching heights that seemingly only head coach Liam Coen (and Jakobi Meyers?!) could\u2019ve helped the QB reach.”<\/p>\n Jaguars Wire: I get it — the Bills have playoff experience, and the Jaguars mostly don’t. However, this Jacksonville team is playing really high-level football on both offense and defense. I’ll take the Jaguars to win 30-27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 5, 2026, 12:18 p.m. ET The Jacksonville Jaguars will host the Buffalo Bills in the wild-card round…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31,116,118,117,1254,9548,298,2184,10367,2579,1799,11488,420,12325,22900,1257,342,332,442,49,300,423,34],"class_list":["post-106523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-accessfree","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-sstssportsnfljaguars","tag-sstsnjaguars","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagamerican-football-conference","tag-tagbuffalo-bills","tag-tagcbs-corp","tag-tageverbank-stadium","tag-tagfox-sports","tag-tagjacksonville-jaguars","tag-tagjakobi-meyers","tag-tagjosh-allen","tag-tagliam-coen","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnfl","tag-tagnfl-hub","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagtrevor-lawrence","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106523","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=106523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}