With the Washington Commanders’ 23-20 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday night, the 2025 NFL bracket and schedule has come into full view.
The Commanders are the lowest seed remaining in the playoffs. BetMGM had them and the AFC South champion Houston Texans as three-point underdogs going into Wild Card Weekend. Now both will face their conference’s top seeds Saturday.
Oddsmakers expect tonight’s wild card game could also come down to a field goal. The final team into the divisional round will be decided in Glendale, Arizona, where the NFL moved the game between the Los Angeles Rams and Minnesota Vikings because of the wildfires in California. Game coverage begins at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN
Printable 2025 NFL playoff bracket and divisional matchups
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How NFL playoff format works
After this weekend’s games, the records of the remaining four teams in each conference determined how the divisional championships set up:
No. 1 seed hosts the lowest remaining seed.
The next highest remaining seed hosts the other wild-card weekend winner.
Odds for NFL’s divisional games
BetMGM’s initial betting lines for next weekend’s games are set. A plus before the number signifies the amount a bettor would win on a $100 bet. A minus signifies the amount a bettor must bet to win $100.
Odds for AFC divisional games
Houston Texans (+340) at Kansas City Chiefs (-450) favored by 8 points
Baltimore Ravens (-105) at Buffalo Bills (-115) favored by 1 point
Odds for NFC divisional games
Washington Commanders (+400) at Detroit Lions (-550) favored by 8.5 points
Best offenses and defenses of the 2024 NFL season
The Chiefs finished the regular season with the league’s best record, but did so with the lowest scoring differential among the top playoff teams. They outscored their opponents by just 59 points. Their 38-0 loss to end the season didn’t help, but less than a third of the NFC-leading Detroit Lions. Both the Lions and the Bills scored more than 500 points this season – a milestone only the Dallas Cowboys hit in 2023.
In his first season back in the NFL, head coach Jim Harbaugh turned up the Los Angeles Chargers’ defense, cutting their ‘points against’ to 301 – almost than 100 points fewer than 2023 and leading the league in the category. The five-seed Chargers fell to Texans in opening game of Wild Card Weekend. Interestingly, the 10-7 Texans scored exactly as many points as they gave up this season.