Every 2020 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.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers won the 2020 title from a regular season record of 11-5. 14 teams reached the playoffs and the bracket ran 4 rounds. Every game below is taken from the nflverse open data project; nothing on this page is estimated.
| Round | Won by | Result | Opponent | Played |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wild Card Round | Buffalo Bills | 27-24 | Indianapolis Colts | January 9, 2021 |
| Wild Card Round | New Orleans Saints | 21-9 | Chicago Bears | January 10, 2021 |
| Wild Card Round | Cleveland Browns | 48-37 | Pittsburgh Steelers | January 10, 2021 |
| Wild Card Round | Los Angeles Rams | 30-20 | Seattle Seahawks | January 9, 2021 |
| Wild Card Round | Baltimore Ravens | 20-13 | Tennessee Titans | January 10, 2021 |
| Wild Card Round | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 31-23 | Washington Football Team | January 9, 2021 |
| Divisional Round | Kansas City Chiefs | 22-17 | Cleveland Browns | January 17, 2021 |
| Divisional Round | Buffalo Bills | 17-3 | Baltimore Ravens | January 16, 2021 |
| Divisional Round | Green Bay Packers | 32-18 | Los Angeles Rams | January 16, 2021 |
| Divisional Round | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 30-20 | New Orleans Saints | January 17, 2021 |
| Conference Championship | Kansas City Chiefs | 38-24 | Buffalo Bills | January 24, 2021 |
| Conference Championship | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 31-26 | Green Bay Packers | January 24, 2021 |
| Super Bowl | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 31-9 | Kansas City Chiefs | February 7, 2021 |
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