This is it, football fan! The final week of the 2025-26 NFL regular season has arrived. Two games will take place on Saturday, another 14 will be played on Sunday, and that two-day stretch will put the finishing touches on this year's playoff field.

Per ESPN Research: the 2025 Eagles are the first team since the 1987 Patriots to win multiple games in a season in which they didn’t complete a second half pass. Hurts is the first QB in the play by play era (since 1978) to go 0-7 or worse in multiple games in a season.

So let’s start with the college playoff games, which begin on New Year’s Eve with Miami (Fla., not Ohio) against the Ohio State Buckeyes. The Hurricanes are coming off a rousing 10-3 win over Texas A&M and face the rested Buckeyes,

Case in point: Only the Green Bay Packers know which seed they'll carry into the postseason (No. 7 in the NFC). Every other team in the playoff picture has a chance to move somewhere—up, down or even out—before the curtains fall this weekend.

New England still has an opportunity to secure the No. 1 seed in the AFC, provided it defeats the Dolphins and the Chargers are able to beat the Broncos. Both games will be played at the same time, but Denver's path became even easier with L.A. announcing it will rest Justin Herbert, with its playoff position already locked up.