The Detroit Lions are the team to beat in the NFC, but this conference's wild-card teams put up more fight than their AFC counterparts.

The four NFC and four AFC division champions and six wild-card teams - the three non-division winners with the best records in each conference - will compete in a single elimination tournament. The final four will play in the AFC and NFC championship games on Jan.

After losing the first regular-season game in league history pitting teams with a combined 28 victories, the Vikings (14-3) hit the road for wild-card weekend, visiting the NFC West champion Los Angeles Rams (10-7) on Monday night as the most accomplished fifth seed in NFL history.

There have been 58 Super Bowls played in NFL history, and somehow, there are still 12 teams that have yet to win a Lombardi Trophy. However, that number could be going down by one this year and that's because there are five teams in the playoffs that will have a chance to end their Super Bowl drought.

It's difficult to imagine the conference champion not being one of the top three seeds, but as we know, in the NFL, anything can happen.

The NFL playoffs are here! With all due respect to Christmas, it's the most wonderful time of the year. And what better way to celebrate than by projecting out the full playoff field through the Super Bowl,

NFL regular season is now in the books. 18 teams will ponder what exactly went wrong and 14 others are in the NFL playoffs.