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NFL playoff game results 1933–1966. Beginning with the 1933 season, the NFL featured a championship game, played between the winners of its two divisions.In this era, if there was a tie for first place in the division at the end of the regular season, a one-game playoff was used to determine the team that would represent their division in the NFL Championship Game.
In 1949, there was only one seven-team division, so the championship game was the final round of a four team tournament. 1946 December 22 Cleveland Browns 14–9 New York Yankees , Cleveland Municipal Stadium, 41,181. 1947 December 14 Cleveland Browns 14–3 New York Yankees , Yankee Stadium, 60,103.
The first-place teams in each conference met in the NFL Championship Game after the season. There was no tie-breaker system in place; any ties in the final standings of either conference resulted in playoff games in 1941, 1943, 1947, 1950 (2), 1952, 1957, 1958, and 1965. Since the venue and date of the championship game were often not known ...
Time: 7 p.m. (Fri.) | TV: CBSSN | Line: LU -10.5 | Total: 53.5. New Mexico State (10-3): It has been an incredible season for Jerry Kill’s Aggies, who enter the C-USA title game on an eight-game ...
Game. 1968–69 →. The NFL playoffs following the 1967 NFL season culminated in the NFL championship game on New Year's Eve, and determined who would represent the league against the American Football League champions in Super Bowl II . With 16 teams in the league in 1967, this was the first season that the NFL used a four-team playoff ...
Early years (1920–1932) Early championships between 1920 and 1932 were awarded to the team with the best won-lost record, initially rather haphazardly, as some teams played more or fewer games than others, or scheduled games against non-league, amateur or collegiate teams; this led to the 1920 title being determined during a league meeting after the season, the 1921 title being decided on a ...
The redesigned Lamar Hunt Trophy, awarded since 2010–11 season. The structure of the NFL playoffs has changed several times since 1970. At the end of each regular season, the top teams in the AFC qualify for the postseason, including all division champions (three division winners from the 1970–71 to 2001–02 seasons; four since the 2002–03 season) and a set number of "wild card" teams ...
Conference Championships As per an annual rotation used by the NFL since 1997 and made official in 2002, the NFC Championship Game was the first game played on January 18 at 3:00 p.m. EST, followed by the AFC Championship Game at 6:50 p.m. EST. Sunday, January 18, 2015 NFC: Seattle Seahawks 28, Green Bay Packers 22 (OT)