Schedule set for NFL playoffs’ second-round games

The Detroit Lions and Kansas City Chiefs enter the race for Super Bowl LIX next weekend. The Chiefs in the AFC and the Lions in the NFC sat out the first round of the NFL postseason as the No. 1 seed on its side of the NFL championship tournament.

One game remains in the Wild-Card Weekend: The Minnesota Vikings and the Los Angeles Rams will square off at 7 p.m. CST Monday at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. The teams are playing on the Arizona Cardinals’ home field instead of the Rams’ SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, because of the wildfires in southern California.

But the results of the first five playoff games allowed the NFL to set the schedule for the Divisional Weekend games on Sunday night.

The results and schedule for the NFL postseason include (with all times CST):

WILD-CARD WEEKEND

Saturday, Jan. 11

Sunday, Jan. 12

Monday, Jan. 13

  • NFC: No. 5 Minnesota Vikings (14-3) at No. 4 Los Angeles Rams (10-7), 7 p.m. (ABC, ESPN)

DIVISIONAL WEEKEND

Saturday, Jan. 18

  • AFC: No. 4 Houston Texans (11-7) at No. 1 Kansas City Chiefs (15-2), 3:30 p.m. (ABC, ESPN)
  • NFC: No. 6 Washington Commanders (13-5) at No. 1 Detroit Lions (15-2), 7 p.m. (FOX)

Sunday, Jan. 19

  • NFC: No. 5 Minnesota Vikings or No. 4 Los Angeles Rams at No. 2 Philadelphia Eagles (15-3), 2 p.m. (NBC)
  • AFC: No. 3 Baltimore Ravens (13-5) at No. 2 Buffalo Bills (14-4), 5:30 p.m. (CBS)

CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS

Sunday, Jan. 26

  • NFC, 2 p.m. (FOX)
  • AFC, 5:30 p.m. (CBS)

SUPER BOWL LIX

Sunday, Feb. 9

  • AFC champion vs. NFC champion, 5:30 p.m. at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans (FOX)

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on X at @AMarkG1.

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