When is the Super Bowl 2025? How to watch, what to know about NFL playoff schedule

There is just one week left in the NFL regular season, so the NFL playoffs are just around the corner.

There’s still a lot to be decided in the NFL Week 18 schedule this week, but it’s never too early to start planning for the postseason.

When is the 2025 Super Bowl? Where is it? How do you watch it? Who is the halftime performer?

When do the NFL playoffs start? What is the NFL playoff schedule? What’s the NFL postseason format? Who will make the playoffs?

Here’s what to know about the NFL playoffs and the 2025 Super Bowl, which will be here before we know it.

Watch NFL games on FUBO (free trial)When is Super Bowl 2025?

Super Bowl 59 will be played on Feb. 9, 2025, and will air at 4:30 p.m. Arizona time.

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Where is Super Bowl 2025?

Super Bowl 59 will be played at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, the home to the New Orleans Saints. It will be the 11th time the Super Bowl has been held in New Orleans since the Saints became an NFL franchise in 1967.

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How to watch Super Bowl 2025

This year’s broadcast will be on Fox. It can also be streamed on FUBO.

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Who’s performing at the Super Bowl 2025 halftime show?

Kendrick Lamar, a 17-time Grammy-winning rapper, will headline the halftime show.

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When do the NFL playoffs start?

The NFL playoffs start on Saturday, Jan. 11, and Sunday, Jan. 12, with the wild-card round.

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What’s the NFL postseason format?

There are eight NFL divisions, four in the NFC and four in the AFC, with each division winner earning a playoff berth in each conference, along with the three non-division winners with the best records in that conference earning wild-card bids into the postseason.

The top overall seed in the AFC and the top overall seed in the NFC earn byes into the division round of the playoffs.

What is the NFL playoff schedule? (All times MST)

Wild-card round

Jan. 11, 2025 – Jan. 13, 2025: Three games will be played on Saturday (11 a.m., 2:30 p.m., 6 p.m.), two will be played on Sunday (2:30 p.m., 6:15 p.m.) and one will be played on Monday (6:15 p.m.)

Divisional round

Jan. 18, 2025 – Jan. 19, 2025: Two games will be played on Saturday (2:30 p.m., 6:15 p.m.) and two will be played on Sunday (1 p.m., 4:30 p.m.)

Conference championship round

Jan. 26, 2025: Both the NFC Championship Game (1 p.m., FOX) and AFC Championship Game (4:30 p.m., CBS) will be played on Sunday.

Super Bowl

Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025: The game pitting the AFC champion and NFC champion will air at 4:30 p.m. on FOX.

Who will be in the NFL playoffs?

Twelve of the 14 teams in the NFL playoffs have been determined with the Kansas City Chiefs, Buffalo Bills, Baltimore Ravens, Houston Texans, Pittsburgh Steelers and Los Angeles Chargers having clinched AFC playoff berths and the Minnesota Vikings, Philadelphia Eagles, Los Angeles Rams, Detroit Lions, Washington Commanders and Green Bay Packers having secured NFC postseason spots.

In the AFC, the Denver Broncos, Miami Dolphins and Cincinnati Bengals are still in contention for the final postseason bid. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Atlanta Falcons are still alive for the last NFC berth entering the final week of the NFL regular season this week.

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