Predicting the entire NFL playoff race, from Wild Card Weekend winner to Super Bowl LIX champion

Predicting the entire NFL playoff race, from Wild Card Weekend winner to Super Bowl LIX champion

Wild Card Weekend begins a fast-paced, action-packed battle for a spot in Super Bowl LIX that will end with one of the 14 playoff teams winning the Lombardi Trophy. Get ready for a fast-paced ride!

Or if you want to know how everything will turn out at the momentJust scroll down to see the projected outcome of every postseason game, right down to the eventual champions, presented in a handy graphic.

Of course this is folly Strictly speaking Expect this exact sequence of events to play out. Some years a top-seeded team wins a title unopposed, as was the case in five consecutive years (from the 2013 to 2017 playoffs). In other years, the champion has had a No. 2 seed or lower, as has been the case in all but one of the last six postseasons. And opening weekend is just around the corner always shows a surprise; In seven straight seasons, at least one lower-seeded team has defeated a higher-seeded team and advanced from the Wild Card round, including last year when the Packers (No. 7) stunned the Cowboys (No. 2).

In short, when the editors behind NFL.com’s weekly game selection file (Brooke Cersosimo, Dan Parr, Ali Bhanpuri, Gennaro Filice and Tom Blair) came together to fill out the entire playoff bracket, we didn’t expect to get it right . As you’ll see in the breakdown of our predictions below, we even have an inkling of where we might have gone wrong. We wanted to make a reasonable, informed prediction about how the next few chaotic weeks will unfold, based on consensus from the group consultation.

Without further ado, the path to Super Bowl LIX:

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