Carolina, which Tampa Bay beat on Saturday, wins the NFC South in a three-way tiebreaker that also includes Atlanta. Rick Stroud is a sports reporter covering the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Reach him at ...

The road to the Super Bowl is nearly paved. The final Sunday of the NFL’s regular season began with three division titles, two playoff spots and a bye up for grabs. All spots are now confirmed. The ...

Super Bowl LX will be played in Santa Clara, Calif., so it’s only fitting that at least one of the roads there will run through the West. The NFC West boasts three legitimate Super Bowl contenders.

When the Los Angeles Rams take the field on Monday night against the Atlanta Falcons, they won’t have much to play for. They’ve tumbled down the NFC standings in the last 10 days, all because of their ...

As the NFL playoff picture continues to coalesce, so does the cluster of teams that won't be shoehorning their way into it. In fact, by the time Week 17 concludes, the postseason qualifiers could be ...

As Week 17 unfolds, several teams have officially been eliminated from postseason contention, while others are hanging on with slim hopes. The final stretch of the NFL regular season always brings ...

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are down to their final life in the game to win their fifth straight NFC South title. They came out of their Week 9 bye week 6-2 looking like not only the surefire divisional ...

The Colts will miss the playoffs for the fifth straight year after starting the season 7-1. Trevor Ruszkowski / Imagn Images The Indianapolis Colts have been eliminated from playoff contention ...

With the Texans' 20-16 win over the Chargers on Saturday night to improve to 11-5, Houston clinched a spot in the playoffs, eliminating the 8-7 Colts in the process. Indianapolis becomes just the ...

On Thursday, an error-filled 23-10 loss to the Minnesota Vikings (8-8) eliminated the Lions (8-8) from playoff contention. One year after earning the NFC’s No. 1 seed and two years removed from a NFC ...

'TODAY' co-anchor Savannah Guthrie and family make tearful plea for mother's return news Alerts There are no new alerts at this time A year after winning an NFC-best 15 games, the Detroit Lions’ ...

There was little room for holiday cheer on the Detroit sideline Thursday as the Lions’ postseason hopes came to an anticlimactic end. With the Lions’ playoff chances on the line in Minnesota this ...