{"id":98144,"date":"2025-12-28T23:50:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T23:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/98144\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T23:50:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T23:50:25","slug":"week-18-playoff-scenarios-for-jacksonville-jaguars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/98144\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 18 playoff scenarios for Jacksonville Jaguars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following another victory, what playoff scenarios will the <a href=\"https:\/\/jaguarswire.usatoday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jacksonville Jaguars;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> face in Week 18?<\/p>\n<p>Now 12-5 on the season, the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/jacksonville-jaguars\/365\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jaguars;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Jaguars<\/a> have already clinched a playoff spot. That happened last week. However, they do still have quite a bit on the line going into the final regular-season game.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>How can the Jaguars win the AFC South?<\/p>\n<p>Right behind the Jaguars in the playoff standings are the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/houston-texans\/325\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Houston Texans;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Houston Texans<\/a> at 11-5.<\/p>\n<p>There are two ways that the Jaguars can clinch the division title in Week 18, either by defeating the Tennessee Titans or if Houston loses to Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p>With the Texans holding the tie-breaker over the Jaguars, if the two teams finish with the same record, Houston would win the division.<\/p>\n<p>How can the Jaguars be the AFC&#8217;s No. 1 seed in the playoffs?<\/p>\n<p>The Jaguars are the three seed at the moment, but remain in the mix for the conference&#8217;s top playoff spot. To claim that position, the Jaguars need three things to happen.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Jacksonville has to defeat the Titans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Denver has to lose to the Chargers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">New England has to lose to Miami.<\/p>\n<p>Both Denver and New England are currently 13-3 &#8212; one game ahead of the Jaguars.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Jaguars Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/jaguarswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/jaguars\/2025\/12\/28\/nfl-playoff-standings-week-18-clinching-scenarios-jaguars\/87937890007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NFL playoff standings: Week 18 clinching scenarios for Jaguars;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NFL playoff standings: Week 18 clinching scenarios for Jaguars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following another victory, what playoff scenarios will the Jacksonville Jaguars face in Week 18? Now 12-5 on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9790,20345,12001,15272,116,118,121,117,123,10489,51788,50849,10836],"class_list":["post-98144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-chargers","tag-denver","tag-houston-texans","tag-indianapolis","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-miami","tag-new-england","tag-playoff-scenarios","tag-playoff-spot","tag-tennessee-titans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98144","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=98144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}