Every 2023 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.
Kansas City Chiefs won the 2023 title from a regular season record of 11-6. 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 | Green Bay Packers | 48-32 | Dallas Cowboys | January 14, 2024 |
| Wild Card Round | Detroit Lions | 24-23 | Los Angeles Rams | January 14, 2024 |
| Wild Card Round | Buffalo Bills | 31-17 | Pittsburgh Steelers | January 15, 2024 |
| Wild Card Round | Houston Texans | 45-14 | Cleveland Browns | January 13, 2024 |
| Wild Card Round | Kansas City Chiefs | 26-7 | Miami Dolphins | January 13, 2024 |
| Wild Card Round | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 32-9 | Philadelphia Eagles | January 15, 2024 |
| Divisional Round | Baltimore Ravens | 34-10 | Houston Texans | January 20, 2024 |
| Divisional Round | Detroit Lions | 31-23 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | January 21, 2024 |
| Divisional Round | San Francisco 49ers | 24-21 | Green Bay Packers | January 20, 2024 |
| Divisional Round | Kansas City Chiefs | 27-24 | Buffalo Bills | January 21, 2024 |
| Conference Championship | Kansas City Chiefs | 17-10 | Baltimore Ravens | January 28, 2024 |
| Conference Championship | San Francisco 49ers | 34-31 | Detroit Lions | January 28, 2024 |
| Super Bowl | Kansas City Chiefs | 25-22 | San Francisco 49ers | February 11, 2024 |
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