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2025-26 NFL Playoffs — Wikipedia

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Summary

Wikipedia overview of the 2025-26 NFL playoff bracket. Seattle Seahawks won as the NFC’s #1 seed; New England Patriots were AFC champion. Super Bowl LX was played at Levi’s Stadium, Santa Clara, CA on February 8, 2026. First postseason since 2014 without the Kansas City Chiefs.

Key Points

  • NFC seeds (partial list extracted on first ingest): Seahawks (#1, NFC West winner), Bears (#2), Eagles (#3), Panthers (#4), Rams (#5). ⚠️ The NFC playoff field is 7 teams (1 division winner per division + 3 wild cards = 7). The 5 seeds above are incomplete; the missing seeds 6 and 7 were not extracted on first ingest. The 49ers were one of the missing wild card seeds — they appear in the Divisional Round vs. Seattle on Jan 17, 2026 per the raw ESPN box score Seahawks 41-6 Divisional Win Over 49ers, confirming they made the playoffs. The earlier wiki framing of “49ers not in the bracket” was an artifact of this incomplete extraction, not a real contradiction.
  • AFC seeds (partial): Broncos (#1), Patriots (#2, East winner), Jaguars (#3), Steelers (#4), Texans (#5 wild card). Same caveat — full 7-team AFC field not fully extracted here.
  • Seahawks won Super Bowl LX — their second title in franchise history (first was Super Bowl XLVIII after 2013 season)
  • First postseason since 2014 without Patrick Mahomes, Tom Brady, or Peyton Manning
  • Wild Card round featured 12 fourth-quarter lead changes in 4 of 6 games
  • Two Divisional Round games went to OT; both decided by punt-on-first-OT-possession → interception → field goal

Newsletter Angles

  • The generational transition in the NFC: neither defending Super Bowl champion (Eagles) nor previous dominant team (49ers) advanced to conference championship
  • The return of the Seahawks-Patriots Super Bowl matchup — 11 years after Super Bowl XLIX

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Notes

Lightweight reference source. Useful for bracket context and historical comparisons. No analytical content.

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