The NFL playoffs are down to the final four! Here is your guide to the teams, schedule and how you can watch along on the road to Super Bowl LX at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California.
The No 1-seeded Denver Broncos broke the hearts of Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills to advance to the AFC Championship Game, where they will meet the New England Patriots after Mike Vrabel's side beat the Houston Texans.
The Seattle Seahawks, the No 1 seed in the NFC, meanwhile await the Los Angeles Rams in the NFC Championship Game after cruising to a 41-6 win over the San Francisco 49ers in the Divisional Round
Super Bowl LX takes place at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California on Sunday, February 8, live on Your Site.
First-round bye: (1) Denver Broncos
First-round bye: (1) Seattle Seahawks
Backup quarterback Jarrett Stidham is set to start for the Broncos against his former team after Bo Nix was ruled out for the remainder of the playoffs due to a broken ankle suffered in the final minutes of Denver's Divisional Round victory over the Bills.
Stidham, who was drafted by the Patriots in the fourth round in 2019, has started just four games in his NFL career and not attempted a pass since 2023.
Denver marched to the No 1 seed in the AFC with a record of 14-3 this season, ending the Kansas City Chiefs' streak of nine straight AFC West division titles in the process. They are spearheaded by a defense that led the NFL with 68 sacks, 14 of which came courtesy of Nik Bonitto, while ranking second in total yards allowed and third in points allowed.
New England, led by first-year head coach Mike Vrabel, are gearing up to play in the AFC Championship Game for the 16th time in franchise history, and their first since the 2018 season, which ended in them beating the Los Angeles Rams at Super Bowl LIII.
MVP-contender quarterback Drake Maye threw for 179 yards, three touchdowns and an interception while coughing up four fumbles as he battled past the No 1-ranked Houston Texans defense to help the Patriots to a 28-16 win.
Kayshon Boutte put the game to bed with a spectacular one-handed touchdown catch in the fourth quarter, having watched his defense intercept CJ Stroud on four occasions.
Maye finished the regular season 354 of 492 passing for a league-high completion percentage of 72, while posting 4,394 yards (fourth-most) and 31 touchdowns (third-most) to just eight interceptions with a league-best passer rating of 113.5. Veteran wideout Stefon Diggs would emerge as his most trusted target with 85 catches for 1,013 yards, while rookie running back TreVeyon Henderson has dazzled with his game-breaking chunk play threat out of the backfield.
Rashid Shaheed scored a 95-yard return touchdown on the opening kickoff of the game, Kenneth Walker III rushed for three scores and the Seattle Seahawks forced three turnovers in a 41-6 win over the San Francisco 49ers in the Divisional Round.
It would prove the latest statement performance from first-year head coach Mike Macdonald's frightening defense, which is also orchestrated by British defensive coordinator Aden Durde. Seattle ranked first in points allowed during the regular season while also finishing first in EPA/play, an advanced metric for down-to-down efficiency.
Sam Darnold barely needed to break sweat as he finished 12 of 17 passing for 124 yards and a touchdown in his first year with the team after signing a $100.5m contract during the offseason. Darnold enters the NFL's final four as one of the greatest comeback stories in recent years, resurrecting his lost career with the Minnesota Vikings in 2024 and since leading Seattle to Super Bowl contention with the help of Jaxon Smith-Njigba, who topped the league with 1,793 receiving yards.
The Rams meanwhile survived another Caleb Williams miracle throw as Harrison Mevis kicked a 42-yard field goal to give them a 20-17 victory over the Chicago Bears in Sunday's Divisional Round clash.
Los Angeles led 17-10 in the final minute with the Bears facing a fourth-and-four from the 14-yard line when Williams backpedalled to avoid the pass rush before heaving the ball to Cole Kmet for the game-tying touchdown with 18 seconds left.
Although officially a 14-yard pass, the ball traveled 51.2 yards in the air, according to the NFL's Next Gen Stats.
Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford is the favourite to win the league's MVP award after leading the league with 4,707 passing yards, and 46 touchdowns to eight interceptions while averaging 276.9 yards per game. Puka Nacua finished second only to Smith-Njigba with 1,715 receiving yards from a league-high 129 catches, Davante Adams topped all receivers with 14 touchdown catches and the Rams offense finished as the most potent scoring unit in football.
The NFL is made up of 32 competing teams which are separated into two conferences: the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC).
The AFC and NFC are then further divided by region to comprise four divisions with four teams each: AFC East, North, South and West and NFC East, North, South and West.
At the end of the regular season, a total of 14 teams advance to the playoffs, including the teams with the best record in each of the respective four divisions per conference, plus a further three 'wild card' teams determined by which teams own the next-best records in each conference.
The No 1 seeds in each conference (the two teams with the best win-loss records in the AFC and NFC) receive a first-round bye, while the No 2 seeds host the No 7 seeds, the No 3 seeds host the No 6 seeds and the No 4 seeds host the No 5 seeds on Super Wild Card Weekend to open the postseason.
The No 1 seeds enter the fold during the subsequent Divisional Round when they will host the lowest remaining seed from their respective conferences, while the second-lowest remaining seed visits the second-highest remaining seed from the winners of the wild card round.
The respective winners of those two matchups then meet in the Conference Championship games, in what effectively amounts to the semi-finals for the Super Bowl as we find out who advances from each conference to play in the big game which, this year, will be held in California on Sunday, February 8.
The NFL will stage the 60th edition of the Super Bowl on Sunday February 8 at Levi's Stadium, the home of the San Francisco 49ers in Santa Clara, California.
It will be the second time the Super Bowl has been played at Levi's Stadium following on from Super Bowl 50 in 2016 as the Denver Broncos beat the Carolina Panthers 24-10, and the third in the San Francisco Bay Area after the 49ers beat the Miami Dolphins 38-16 at Super Bowl XIX at the end of the 1984 campaign.
The Super Bowl has typically kicked off at 11.30pm UK time, with the half-time show usually around 1am.
The Philadelphia Eagles entered the 2025 campaign as Super Bowl champions after dismantling the Chiefs 40-22 to deny Andy Reid's side a historic third straight title at Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans.
Jalen Hurts starred as he won Super Bowl MVP after throwing for 221 yards and two touchdowns to AJ Brown and DeVonta Smith, while Philadelphia's No 1-ranked defense swarmed Patrick Mahomes with six sacks and 11 quarterback hits as well as intercepting him twice, including Cooper DeJean's first-half pick-six.
Kansas City had won each of the last two Super Bowls with victories over the Eagles in 2023 before ousting the San Francisco 49ers in Las Vegas in 2024.
It marked the Eagles' second Super Bowl win after they beat the New England Patriots at Super Bowl LII in 2018.
Puerto Rican reggaeton star Bad Bunny will headline next year's Super Bowl half-time show in Santa Clara, California, the NFL has announced.
Kendrick Lamar headlined the most-watched Super Bowl half-time show in history in New Orleans as 133.5m viewers tuned in to see the 22-time Grammy-winning rapper take aim at Drake, surpassing Michael Jackson's record of 133.4m in 1993.
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