Tag: Playoff
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2025-26 NFL Playoff Picture: Updated AFC and NFC Standings After Week 14
1. Seattle Seahawks (10-3, NFC West) 2. Chicago Bears (9-3, NFC North) 3. Philadelphia Eagles (8-4, NFC East) 4. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (7-6, NFC South) The Seahawks beat up the Atlanta Falcons Sunday, winning 37-9 and looking every bit a legitimate Super Bowl contender. A complete team who can throw, run, play defense, and will…
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Bears Eye NFC Top Seed as Chiefs Face Playoff Uncertainty
3) The Patriots are the best team in the AFC: FICTION. The defining trait of the 2025 campaign thus far: There are no great teams. There are a host of good squads, but no great ones that stand out head and shoulders above the rest. Every club is flawed in its own way. Good offenses…
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NFL Playoff Update: Broncos Surge Past Patriots for Top AFC Seed, Shedeur Sanders and Browns Elimination
Every game matters at this point in the season as teams fight for playoff position and chase division titles. Here’s how the NFL playoff picture looks after the late wave of games Sunday in Week 14: Advertisement NFC 1. Los Angeles Rams (10-3): Up next — vs. Detroit Lions in Week 15 Notable odds: The…
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Key X-Factor for Seahawks’ Playoff Push
It hasn’t been the high-octane start fans envisioned when the Seattle Seahawks acquired Rashid Shaheed on Nov. 4. The deadline day trade sent expectations soaring. A lofty nickname, “The Legion of Zoom,” floated around before the lightning-quick receiver even played a snap in Seattle. So far, Shaheed’s performance–and, more importantly, his utilization–has fallen short of…
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Week 14 Playoff Push: Rooting Guide for the Panthers
Dec. 6, 2025, 6:00 p.m. ET Sunday won’t be as eventful as it usually is for Carolina Panthers fans, as their guys will be out of action in their latest bye week since 2001. But with the team at 7-6 and very much alive in this year’s playoff race, that afternoon’s slate will still mean…
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Texas Tech Football’s CFP Playoff Prospects: A Scenario Analysis
Dec. 6, 2025, 11:15 a.m. CT ARLINGTON — For many Texas Tech football fans, the next best thing to playing a high-stakes game in Lubbock is playing a high-stakes game in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. To play twice in a month’s time at AT&T Stadium and do so with a first-round bye in the College Football…
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College Football Playoff Bracket Reveal: Time and TV Schedule
Dec. 7, 2025, 5:03 a.m. CT The College Football Playoff committee will release 11 a.m. CT Sunday, Dec. 7, and the top teams in the country will learn their postseason fate. Despite a slower end to the season on the offensive side of the ball, head coach Brent Venables and the Oklahoma Sooners (10-2) are…
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Championship Week Impacts: Updated College Football Playoff and Bowl Projections
Kyle Bonagura Close Kyle Bonagura ESPN Staff Writer Covers college football. Joined ESPN in 2014. Attended Washington State University. Mark Schlabach Close Mark Schlabach ESPN Senior Writer Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Dec 7, 2025, 01:00 AM ET After a thrilling championship weekend,…
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Central Section High School Football Playoff Scoreboard
Winners from the NorCal and SoCal Regional games will advance to the CIF State Football Championship, December 12-13, representing their respective divisions for the title of CIF State Champion. FRIDAY SCORES Division 2-AA South: Bakersfield Christian 24, La Habra 21, final Division 3–AA South: Ventura 35, Arroyo Grande 28, final Division 4-A South: Barstow 13,…
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Texas: A Strong Contender for the College Football Playoff as an SEC At-Large Team
Texas is slotted behind 12 other teams in the most-recent College Football Playoff Rankings, but the No. 13 Longhorns can make an eye-opening claim that no one ahead of them — or behind them — can match. With victories over No. 8 Oklahoma and No. 7 Texas A&M, Texas entered conference championship weekend as the…