Super Bowl 2025: Date, Schedule and Predicting Teams for NFL's Championship Bracket

Only a fortunate—and clearly fantastic—set of four NFL teams remain in this season's pursuit of a Super Bowl triumph.

In the AFC, both of the top two seeds are still standing. In the NFC, though, the No. 1 seed is gone and was sent packing by a No. 6 seed with a rookie quarterback. Go figure.

In a way, this postseason has gone a long way toward highlighting what makes great teams great. In another, it has served as a reminder that anything can happen in this league on the proverbial any given Sunday.

So, are more surprises in store during the Conference Championships? Or will the higher seeded favorites capitalize on the homefield advantage they worked all season to explore? After laying out the scheduling particulars for the remaining postseason slate, we'll predict how each conference championship will play out.

Conference Championship Round

Date: Sunday, January 26

Commanders at Eagles: 3 p.m. ET on Fox

Bills at Chiefs: 6:30 p.m. ET on CBS

Super Bowl LIX

Who: AFC champion vs. NFC champion

When: Sunday, February 9 at 6:30 p.m. ET

Location: Caesars Superdome in New Orleans

TV and Live Stream: Fox

This marks the fourth playoff tussle in five years between Josh Allen's Bills and Patrick Mahomes' Chiefs. Buffalo has yet to come out on the right side of these contests, so clearly Kansas City has to be the pick, right?

Well, maybe not. The Chiefs, who are vying for an unprecedented third consecutive Super Bowl triumph, haven't exactly dominated to this point. Credit them for finding ways to win 16 times in 18 tries so far, but this club ranked just 11th overall in point differential during the regular season (plus-59). They wiggled their way out of a lot of nail-biters and not always against the stiffest competition.

Oh, and the only time Kansas City lost with its regulars came back in Week 11 against this very Buffalo team. The Bills also tied for the conference lead in scoring differential at plus-157. Then, they rolled to a 24-point win in their playoff opener before outlasting Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens in the Divisional Round. Buffalo is, objectively speaking, an awesome team.

Kansas City is awesome, too, and if it needs any extra motivation, the chance to make history is a pretty compelling one. This just feels like Allen's time, though. He is a superstar having the best campaign of his career. If he engineers a late drive to finally get the better of Mahomes and Co., that would be storybook stuff.

Prediction: Bills 31, Chiefs 27

The Eagles lost just three games on the season and only one of those defeats came after September. That last slip-up came against these Commanders, who have opened this postseason with consecutive road wins and just knocked off the top-seeded Detroit Lions by double-digits.

Washington wasn't supposed to be this good this quickly, but rookie quarterback Jayden Daniels has been a true fortune-changer. He already feels less like a rising star than he does an established elite. His first two playoff starts featured nearly mistake-free dominance: 567 yards on 69.7 percent passing with four touchdowns, no interceptions and only one sack, plus another 87 rushing yards.

It feels almost certain Daniels will be up for the challenge, but what about the rest of this roster? Washington faces an on-paper disadvantage at almost every other position, and that's a tricky talent gap for anyone to overcome—miracle-working rookies, included.

There are some questions with Philadelphia's passing game (and those were present even before Jalen Hurts started battling a knee injury), but the combination of a stingy defense and an explosive rushing attack has long been a formula for playoff success. The Eagles have held five of their last seven opponents to 16 points or less, and Saquon Barkley has 641 rushing yards and four scores to show for his last four outings.

Prediction: Eagles 24, Commanders 20