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The National Football League playoffs following the 2005 regular season will lead up to Super Bowl XL, which will be played in Detroit, Michigan on Sunday, February 5, 2006.
The Wild Card playoffs are scheduled to be played on January 7-8. The Divisional Playoffs will be played on January 14-15. The Conference Championship games will be played on Sunday, January 22, 2006.
- For more information on seeding and matchups, see NFL playoffs.
Within each conference, the four division winners and the top two non-division winners with the best overall regular season records) qualified for the playoffs. The four division winners are seeded 1–4 based on their overall won-lost-tied record, and the wild card teams are seeded 5–6. The NFL does not use a fixed bracket playoff system, and there are no restrictions regarding teams from the same division matching up in any round. In the first round, dubbed the wild-card playoffs or wild-card weekend, the third-seeded division winner hosts the sixth-seed wild card, and the fourth seed hosts the fifth. The 1 and 2 seeds from each conference received a first-round bye. In the second round, the divisional playoffs, the number 1 seed hosts the worst-surviving seed from the first round (seed 4, 5, or 6), while the number 2 seed will play the other team (seed 3, 4, or 5). The two surviving teams from each conference's divisional playoff games met in the respective AFC and NFC Conference Championship games, hosted by the higher seed. Although the Super Bowl, the championship round of the playoffs, is played at a neutral site, the designated home team is based on an annual rotation by conference.[1]
| Seed | AFC | NFC |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indianapolis Colts (South winner) | Seattle Seahawks (West winner) |
| 2 | Denver Broncos (West winner) | Chicago Bears (North winner) |
| 3 | Cincinnati Bengals (North winner) | Tampa Bay Buccaneers (South winner) |
| 4 | New England Patriots (East winner) | New York Giants (East winner) |
| 5 | Jacksonville Jaguars (wild card) | Carolina Panthers (wild card) |
| 6 | Pittsburgh Steelers (wild card) | Washington Redskins (wild card) |
Wild Card playoffs
NFC: Washington Redskins 17, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 10
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Redskins | 14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| Buccaneers | 0 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 10 |
at Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, Florida
- Game time: 4:30 pm EST (2130 UTC)
- Game weather: 52 °F (Clear, cool, breezy)
- TV announcers (ABC): Mike Patrick (play-by-play), Joe Theismann and Paul Maguire (color commentators), Suzy Kolber (field reporter)
- Scoring:
- WAS - Portis 6 run (Hall kick)
- WAS - Taylor 51 fumble return (Hall kick)
- TB - FG Bryant 43
- WAS - FG Hall 47
- TB - Simms 2 run (Bryant kick)
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jaguars | 0 | Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "'". | |||
| Patriots | 0 | Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "'". |
at Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, Massachusetts
- Game time: 8:00 pm EST (0100 Sunday UTC)
- Game weather: 52 °F (Clear, cool, breezy)
- TV announcers (ABC): Al Michaels (play-by-play), John Madden (color commentator), Michelle Tafoya (field reporter)
NFC: Carolina Panthers at New York Giants
at Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey
- Game time: 1:00 pm EST (1800 UTC)
- TV announcers (FOX): Joe Buck (play-by-play), Troy Aikman (color commentator), Pam Oliver (field reporter)
at Paul Brown Stadium, Cincinnati, Ohio
- Game time: 4:30 pm EST (2130 UTC)
- TV announcers (CBS): Jim Nantz (play-by-play), Phil Simms (color commentator), Bonnie Bernstein (field reporter)
Byes
Divisional playoffs
- This is a tentative schedule, as announced by the league [1]
Note: The CBS announce teams for the divisional playoffs will be Jim Nantz (play-by-play), Phil Simms (color anaylist) and Bonnie Bernstein (field reporter) on one game, and Dick Enberg (play-by-play), Dan Dierdorf (color anaylist) and Armen Keteyian (field reporter) on the second. The FOX broadcast teams are Joe Buck (play-by-play), Troy Aikman (color anaylist) and Pam Oliver (field reporter) for one game, and Dick Stockton (play-by-play), Darryl Johnston (color anaylist) and Tony Siragusa (field anaylist). for the second. Exact announce teams for the locations will be announced after the completion of the Wild Card Round by the networks.
Saturday January 14, 2006
NFC: Washington Redskins at Seattle Seahawks
at Qwest Field, Seattle, Washington
- Game time: 4:30 pm EST (2130 UTC)
- TV: FOX
AFC: Second lowest remaining AFC seed at Denver Broncos
at INVESCO Field at Mile High, Denver, Colorado
- Game time: 8:00 pm EST (0100 Sunday UTC)
- TV: CBS
Sunday January 15, 2006
AFC: Lowest remaining AFC seed at Indianapolis Colts
at RCA Dome, Indianapolis, Indiana
- Game time: 1:00 pm EST (1800 UTC)
- TV: CBS
NFC: Carolina Panthers or New York Giants at Chicago Bears
at Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois
- Game time: 4:30 pm EST (2130 UTC)
- TV: FOX
Conference Championships
Sunday January 22, 2006
- AFC: Lowest remaining AFC seed at highest remaining AFC seed
- Game time: 3:00 PM EST (2000 UTC)
- TV announcers (CBS): Jim Nantz (play-by-play), Phil Simms (color commentator), Bonnie Bernstein and Armen Keteyian (field reporters)
- NFC: Lowest remaining NFC seed at highest remaining NFC seed
- Game time: 6:30 PM EST (2330 UTC)
- TV announcers (FOX): Joe Buck (play-by-play), Troy Aikman (color commentator), Pam Oliver and Chris Myers (field reporters)
Super Bowl XL
At Ford Field, Detroit, Michigan, Sunday February 5, 2006, 6:30 pm US EST (2330 UTC), (ABC)
- ^ "NFL Playoff Procedures and Tiebreakers". Yahoo! Sports. December 31, 2006. Archived from the original on January 1, 2010.