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All of NFL Playoff Scenarios Entering Final Week

Five teams clinched in AFC, six in NFC
All of NFL Playoff Scenarios Entering Final Week
All of NFL Playoff Scenarios Entering Final Week

AFC

Clinched (5 of 7):

  • Cincinnati Bengals – AFC North division title
  • Kansas City Chiefs – AFC West division title
  • Tennessee Titans – AFC South division title
  • Buffalo Bills – playoff berth
  • New England Patriots – playoff berth

Ravens (8-8) (vs. Pittsburgh (8-7-1), Sunday, 1 p.m.)

Baltimore clinches a playoff berth with:

  1. Ravens win and Chargers loss and Colts loss and Dolphins loss or tie

Bills (10-6) (vs. Jets (4-12), Sunday, 4:25 p.m.)

Buffalo clinches AFC East division title with:

  1. With win
  2. Patriots loss OR
  3. Bills + Patriots tie

Bengals (10-6) (at Cleveland (7-9), Sunday, 1 p.m.)

Cincinnati clinches AFC’s No. 1 seed, only first-round bye and home-field advantage with:

  1. Bengals win + Titans loss + Chiefs loss + Patriots loss or tie OR
  2. Bengals win + Titans loss + Chiefs loss + Bills win

Colts (9-7) (at Jacksonville (2-14), Sunday, 1 p.m.)

Indianapolis clinches playoff berth with:

  1. Colts win or tie OR
  2. Chargers loss + Steelers-Ravens tie OR
  3. Chargers loss + Steelers loss + Dolphons win

Chiefs (11-5) (at Denver (7-9), Saturday, 4:30 p.m.)

Kansas City clinches AFC’s No. 1 seed, only first-round bye and home-field advantage with:

  1. Chiefs win + Titans loss or tie OR
  2. Chiefs tie + Titans loss

Raiders (9-7) (vs. Los Angeles Chargers (9-7), Sunday night, 8:20 p.m.)

Las Vegas clinches a playoff berth with:

  1. Raiders win OR
  2. Raiders tie + Colts loss OR
  3. Colts loss + Steelers loss or tie

Chargers (9-7) (at Las Vegas (9-7), Sunday night, 8:20 p.m.)

Los Angeles Rams clinch playoff berth with:

  1. Chargers win or tie

Patriots (10-6) (at Miami (8-8), Sunday, 4:25 p.m.)

New England clinches AFC’s No. 1 seed, only first-round bye and home-field advantage with:

  1. Patriots win + Bills loss or tie + Chiefs loss + Titans loss

New England clinches AFC East division title with:

  1. Patriots win + Bills loss or tie OR
  2. Patriots tie + Bills loss

Steelers (8-7-1) (at Baltimore (8-8), Sunday, 1 p.m.)

Pittsburgh clinches playoff berth with:

  1. Steelers win + Colts loss + Raiders-Chargers game does not end in a tie

Titans (11-5) (at Houston (4-12), Sunday, 1 p.m.)

Tennessee clinches AFC’s No. 1 seed, only first-round bye and homefield advantage with:

  1. Titans win OR
  2. Titans tie + Chiefs loss or tie OR
  3. Chiefs loss + Bengals loss or tie + Patriots loss or tie OR
  4. Chiefs loss + Bengals loss or tie + Bills win

NFC

Clinched (6 of 7):

  • Green Bay Packers – NFC North division title, No. 1 seed, only first-round bye and homefield advantage
  • Dallas Cowboys – NFC East division title
  • Tampa Bay Buccaneers – NFC South division title
  • Arizona Cardinals – playoff berth
  • Los Angeles Rams – playoff berth
  • Philadelphia Eagles – playoff berth

ARIZONA CARDINALS (11-5) (vs. Seattle (6-10), Sunday, 4:25 PM ET, FOX)

Arizona clinches NFC West division title with:

  1. ARI win + LAR loss

LOS ANGELES RAMS (12-4) (vs. San Francisco (9-7), Sunday, 4:25 PM ET, FOX)

Los Angeles Rams clinch NFC West division title with:

  1. LAR win or tie OR
  2. ARI loss or tie

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS (8-8) (at Atlanta (7-9), Sunday, 4:25 PM ET, FOX)

New Orleans clinches playoff berth with:

  1. NO win + SF loss

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS (9-7) (at Los Angeles Rams (12-4), Sunday, 4:25 PM ET, FOX)

San Francisco clinches playoff berth with:

  1. SF win or tie OR
  2. NO loss or tie

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Todd Karpovich
TODD KARPOVICH

Twitter: @toddkarpovich Email: todd.karpovich@gmail.com Skype: todd.karpovich Todd Karpovich has been a contributor for ESPN, Forbes, the Associated Press, Lindy's, and The Baltimore Sun, among other media outlets nationwide. He is the co-author of “If These Walls Could Talk: Stories from the Baltimore Ravens Sideline, Locker Room, and Press Box,” “Skipper Supreme: Buck Showalter and the Baltimore Orioles,” and the author of “Manchester United (Europe's Best Soccer Clubs).” Karpovich, a Baltimore native, is a graduate of Calvert Hall College high school, Randolph-Macon College in Virginia, and has a Masters of Science from Towson University. 

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