After an 18-week regular season, 18 of the NFL’s 32 teams have been eliminated from the battle for the Vince Lombardi Trophy.
For the other 14 teams, the playoffs — and the hope of a trip to Las Vegas next month for Super Bowl LVIII — are still ahead.
In the AFC, the division champions were the Buffalo Bills (11-6) in the East, the Baltimore Ravens (13-4) in the North, the Houston Texans (10-7) in the South and the Kansas City Chiefs (11-6) in the West, with the wild-card berths going to the North’s Cleveland Browns (11-6) and Pittsburgh Steelers (10-7) and the East’s Miami Dolphins (11-6).
In the NFC, the division champions were the Dallas Cowboys (12-5) in the East, the Detroit Lions (12-5) in the North, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (9-8) in the South and the San Francisco 49ers (12-5) in the West, with the wild-card berths going to the East’s Philadelphia Eagles (11-6), the North’s Green Bay Packers (9-8) and the West’s Los Angeles Rams (10-7).
The Ravens own home-field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs as that conference’s No. 1 seed and will receive a first-round bye, while the same is true for the 49ers in the NFC.