When the No. 1 seed was not the same team that led in SRS (i.e. they weren’t the best team when accounting for margin of ...

The No. 1 seeds in the AFC and NFC both came up with strong home divisional playoff wins coming off their byes. They stayed on track for a rare Super Bowl occurrence.

Super Bowl losers still get a ring honoring them as champions of their respective conference, the AFC or NFC. The ring designs vary from year to year (last year the 49ers got NFC Championship ...

Before that, the two top seeds had made it to the Super Bowl only once during the period of 1994 through 2012. The exception came in 2009, when the Saints and Colts made it to Super Bowl XLIV. It will ...

The Detroit Lions can earn the No. 1 seed in the NFC playoffs for the first time in the Super Bowl era with wins the final 3 weeks of the regular season.

When the No. 1 seed was not the same team that led in SRS (i.e. they weren’t the best team when accounting for margin of victory and strength of schedule), they only went on to the Super Bowl ...

(CNN) — The No. 1 seed in the playoffs is the NFL’s equivalent of unlocking Star World in Super Mario World on the old Super Nintendo. When you get the top playoff seed in a conference thanks ...