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SportsLine's model has analyzed the NFL playoff bracket and locked in its score predictions, best bets, and prop picks for Wild Card Weekend
Wild Card Weekend will kick off in North Carolina and end in Pittsburgh. The NFL on Sunday night announced the schedule for the opening round of the playoffs, which begins with the NFC's fourth-seeded Carolina Panthers hosting the No. 5 Los Angeles Rams on Saturday at 4:30 p.m. ET on FOX.
The Pittsburgh Steelers held on to beat the Baltimore Ravens and clinch the NFL's final playoff spot on Sunday night.
There are also plenty of new faces in the postseason this year, including six teams that didn't make the playoffs last year with the Seahawks, 49ers, Panthers, Bears, Patriots and Jaguars all getting in. The final five teams in that group all lost at least 11 games last year before rebounding to make the postseason this year.
While the full schedule for 2026 including exact dates and kickoff times won't be released until May, let's take a quick look ahead at who awaits the Bills come next year. The full list of the Bills' home and away opponents next season can be found below:
Denver will get the first-round bye while New England and Jacksonville play on Wild Card Weekend — and neither has an easy matchup. Chargers vs. Patriots will feature two of the NFL’s best young quarterbacks with Drake Maye and Justin Herbert facing off. The Jaguars drew the shortest straw and will have to host Josh Allen.
The 2025 NFL Playoffs are set, but some teams are already looking ahead to next season after their years ended in Week 18. Teams like the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks have Super Bowl aspirations,
Must-win AFC North and NFC South showdowns? No. 1 seeds on the line? We have picks, predictions, stats and what's at stake for every Week 18 game.
The Miami Dolphins schedule of opponents for 2026 is the second-most difficult in the NFL, with nine games vs. playoff teams.
The NFL released the wild-card weekend schedule for the opening round of the playoffs. Here are the winners and losers of the scheduling spots.
The Denver Broncos in the AFC and the Seattle Seahawks in the NFC are the No. 1 seeds. The playoffs will start Saturday.
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The end of the NFL season is always crazy and this year has been no different. Here's a short list of what we've seen go down over the past 24 hours: The playoff schedule came out and I have already cleared my entire weekend so I can watch every game We'll be covering all of those things,