Every 1995 NFL playoff game, three ways: the season race carried on into the postseason, who beat their seeding, and the bracket.
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The same race these clubs ran all season, carried on through the postseason on one scale and on real dates.
Where each club finished the season against how far it went, ranked on record rather than seed.
Who played whom, round by round, which no line chart can say.
Dallas Cowboys won the 1995 title from a regular season record of 12-4. 12 teams reached the playoffs and the bracket ran 4 rounds. Every game below is taken from FiveThirtyEight's openly licensed NFL data and the devstopfix results set; nothing on this page is estimated.
| Round | Won by | Result | Opponent | Played |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wild Card Round | Green Bay Packers | 37-20 | Atlanta Falcons | December 31, 1995 |
| Wild Card Round | Buffalo Bills | 37-22 | Miami Dolphins | December 30, 1995 |
| Wild Card Round | Philadelphia Eagles | 58-37 | Detroit Lions | December 30, 1995 |
| Wild Card Round | Indianapolis Colts | 35-20 | San Diego Chargers | December 31, 1995 |
| Divisional Round | Indianapolis Colts | 10-7 | Kansas City Chiefs | January 7, 1996 |
| Divisional Round | Dallas Cowboys | 30-11 | Philadelphia Eagles | January 7, 1996 |
| Divisional Round | Green Bay Packers | 27-17 | San Francisco 49ers | January 6, 1996 |
| Divisional Round | Pittsburgh Steelers | 40-21 | Buffalo Bills | January 6, 1996 |
| Conference Championship | Dallas Cowboys | 38-27 | Green Bay Packers | January 14, 1996 |
| Conference Championship | Pittsburgh Steelers | 20-16 | Indianapolis Colts | January 14, 1996 |
| Super Bowl | Dallas Cowboys | 27-17 | Pittsburgh Steelers | January 28, 1996 |
The left column ranks this field by regular season record, not by seed number: seeding rules differ by era, so this site uses records everywhere instead. The right column groups clubs by the round they went out in, which is not the same as the number of rounds they won, because a bye carries a club further without it winning anything. The figure beside a name is places moved between the two columns, and part of it is only where a club sat inside its band. Nothing here is a prediction. The data notes carry the whole method.
The races that filled this bracket: AFC Wild Card NFC Wild Card