The Buffalo Bills will host their divisional round game against the Cincinnati Bengals, who would have had a chance for a higher seed if their Week 17 game wasn't canceled.
With the cancellation of their head-to-head matchup, the Bills and Bengals finished the year with 16 games played instead of 17 like the league’s 30 other teams.Had the Bills beaten the Bengals and followed that up with a Week 18 win over the, they would have clinched the AFC’s No. 1 seed, the coveted first-round bye and home-field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs. They wound up beating the Patriots in Week 18, but the canceled Week 17 game limited their season record to 13-3.
The team entered Week 17 with an 11-4 record. With a win over the Bills and a Week 18 win over the Baltimore Ravens, the Bengals would have been the No. 2 seed at worst. Mix in a Chiefs loss to the Raiders, and the Bengals would have been the No. 1 seed. . As part of the NFL’s updated rules for the AFC playoffs following the Week 17 cancellation, a Week 18 Ravens win in Cincinnati would have prompted a coin toss to determine which AFC North team would host the other in the wild card round.
“The fact that Buffalo and Cincy never got played, they're going to have a different number of games played relative to Kansas City,” league vice president of broadcast planning Michael North said. “But when it comes to Buffalo and Cincinnati playing each other potentially in the divisional round of the playoffs, theyplayed the same number of games – they've both played 16 games. So there wasn't really a conversation about a coin flip relative to the host site.
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