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What teams are left in the NFL Playoffs? Which teams have been eliminated?
14 teams have been whittled down to four, with the AFC and NFC Championship games taking place on Sunday 28 January.
The 2023 NFL playoffs began less than two weeks ago, at which point 14 teams dreamt of being crowned Super Bowl LVIII champions. The contenders have been quickly whittled down and only four remain, with Sunday’s AFC and NFC Championship Games to decide which teams face off in the end-of-season showpiece in Las Vegas on 11 February.
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NFL schedule on Sunday 28 January
AFC Championship Game
- Kansas City Chiefs @ Baltimore Ravens, Sunday 28 January, 3:00 p.m. ET / 12:00 p.m. PT
NFC Championship Game
- Detroit Lions @ San Francisco 49ers, Sunday 28 January, 6:30 p.m. ET / 3:30 p.m. PT
Perhaps fittingly, the four teams left - the Kansas City Chiefs and Baltimore Ravens of the AFC, and the Detroit Lions and San Francisco 49ers of the NFC - all won their respective sections during the regular seasons, with the Ravens and the 49ers top seeds for the postseason and skipping the Wild Card playoffs as a result.
That first playoff round saw six teams fall by the wayside, with the Philadelphia Eagles, the LA Rams, the Dallas Cowboys, the Miami Dolphins, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Cleveland Browns falling at the first hurdle between 13 and 15 January.
Wild Card playoffs results
- Philadelphia Eagles 9-32 Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- LA Rams 23-24 Detroit Lions
- Green Bay Packers 48-32 Dallas Cowboys
- Miami Dolphins 7-26 Kansas City Chiefs
- Pittsburgh Steelers 17-31 Buffalo Bills
- Cleveland Browns 14-45 Houston Texans
The divisional playoffs then took place last weekend (20 and 21 January), with the 49ers and the Ravens entering the equation. Baltimore had little difficulty ousting the Texans, while the Lions’ excellent fourth-quarter showing was decisive against the Bucs.
Similarly, the Chiefs and the 49ers were both down going into the final quarter of their games against the Bills and the Packers respectively, but swept their opponents aside late on to each record three-point victories.
Divisional playoff results
- Tampa Bay Buccaneers 23-31 Detroit Lions
- Green Bay Packers 21-24 San Francisco 49ers
- Kansas City Chiefs 27-24 Buffalo Bills
- Houston Texans 10-34 Baltimore Ravens
Super Bowl LVIII challenges
10 down, four to go.
Can the Chiefs become the first team to win back-to-back Super Bowls since the New England Patriots in (seasons) 2003 and 2004? Will the Ravens make it a hat-trick of victories and their first in 12 years? Can the 49ers finally end their 30-year drought and win their sixth championship? Or could the Lions make history and make it to their first Super Bowl in their 58th attempt? We don’t have long to find out.