{"id":77968,"date":"2026-01-05T03:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T03:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/77968\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T03:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T03:41:14","slug":"nfl-playoff-schedule-where-things-stand-with-steelers-ravens-playing-for-afc-north-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/77968\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL playoff schedule: Where things stand with Steelers-Ravens playing for AFC North title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Athletic has live coverage of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/live-blogs\/ravens-vs-steelers-live-score-updates-nfl-snf-result\/OcqpnZe08O4u\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ravens vs. Steelers<\/a> on NFL \u201cSunday Night Football.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With only the Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens left to battle it out for the AFC North title, all but one of the spots in the NFL playoff field are set. And so is the schedule.<\/p>\n<p>The Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks will receive byes into the divisional round as the top seeds in the AFC and NFC, respectively, while the rest of the field will play in the wild-card round next Saturday through Monday. Two wild-card games are set for Saturday, three for Sunday and one on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The schedule was released at halftime of Ravens-Steelers, and the winner will get an extra day of rest with a Monday night showdown against the Houston Texans to close out the wild-card round.<\/p>\n<p>The divisional round schedule will be announced next weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a look at the matchups (all times Eastern):<\/p>\n<p>AFC<\/p>\n<p>No. 1 Denver Broncos (14-3) first-round bye<\/p>\n<p>No. 7 Los Angeles Chargers (11-6) at No. 2 New England Patriots (14-3), 8 p.m. Sunday, NBC<\/p>\n<p>No. 6 Buffalo Bills (12-5) at No. 3 Jacksonville Jaguars (13-4), 1 p.m. Sunday, CBS<\/p>\n<p>No. 5 Houston Texans (12-5) at No. 4 Pittsburgh Steelers\/Baltimore Ravens winner, 8 p.m. Monday, ESPN\/ABC<\/p>\n<p>NFC<\/p>\n<p>No. 1 Seattle Seahawks (14-3) first-round bye<\/p>\n<p>No. 7 Green Bay Packers (9-7-1) at No. 2 Chicago Bears (11-6), 8 p.m. Saturday, Amazon Prime<\/p>\n<p>No. 6 San Francisco 49ers (12-5) at No. 3 Philadelphia Eagles (11-6), 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Fox<\/p>\n<p>No. 5 Los Angeles Rams (12-5) at No. 4 Carolina Panthers (8-9), 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Fox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Athletic has live coverage of Ravens vs. Steelers on NFL \u201cSunday Night Football.\u201d With only the Pittsburgh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6621,11864,24103,6622,4917,6516,15290,4923,11865,12924,1418,4538,73,75,74,19587,6539],"class_list":["post-77968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-chicago-bears","tag-denver-broncos","tag-green-bay-packers","tag-houston-texans","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-los-angeles-chargers","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-seattle-seahawks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}