{"id":93371,"date":"2025-12-23T04:48:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T04:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/93371\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T04:48:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T04:48:06","slug":"jacksonville-jaguars-clinch-playoff-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/93371\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Jaguars clinch playoff spot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updated Dec. 22, 2025, 11:25 p.m. ET<\/p>\n

Following the conclusion of Monday Night Football in Week 16, the Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> have clinched a playoff spot.<\/p>\n

With the San Francisco 49ers’ win over the Indianapolis Colts<\/a>, the Jaguars<\/a>, LA Chargers, and the Buffalo Bills<\/a> all earned a spot in the playoffs.<\/p>\n

With the Jaguars at 11-4 and the Colts at 8-7, Jacksonville is up three games on Indianapolis with only two games left in the regular season.<\/p>\n

Winners of six games in a row, the Jaguars are now chasing much more than just a playoff berth.<\/p>\n

They hold a one-game lead in the AFC South over the 10-5 Houston Texans<\/a>. Jacksonville is the current three seed in the AFC, but are still in the mix for the No. 1 seed after winning in Denver on Sunday.<\/p>\n

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To earn that top playoff spot, there are\u00a0three things<\/a>\u00a0that must happen over the final two weeks of the regular season.<\/p>\n

The Jaguars finish the regular season at Indianapolis and then at home against Tennessee.<\/p>\n

The 2025 season would be the Jaguars’ first in the playoffs since 2022.<\/p>\n

Updated AFC playoff standingsDenver 12-3New England 12-3Jacksonville 11-4Pittsburgh 9-6LA Chargers 11-4Buffalo 11-4Houston 10-5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Dec. 22, 2025, 11:25 p.m. ET Following the conclusion of Monday Night Football in Week 16, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31,47,31100,116,118,117,1254,9548,298,2184,10367,5107,38919,4339,1758,420,442,96,443,300,34],"class_list":["post-93371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-accessfree","tag-fl","tag-in","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-sstssportsnfljaguars","tag-sstsnjaguars","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagamerican-football-conference","tag-tagbuffalo-bills","tag-taghouston-texans","tag-tagindianapolis","tag-tagindianapolis-colts","tag-tagjacksonville","tag-tagjacksonville-jaguars","tag-tagnfl-hub","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsport-scores-statistics","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93371","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=93371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}