Bills Biggest Favorite of Wild Card Playoffs: Full Schedule, Teams, Times, Dates, Odds

Buffalo Bills Biggest Favorite of Wild Card Playoffs: Full NFL Schedule, Teams, Times, Dates, Odds

It's was a long climb back to the top. And it wasn't easy. But the Buffalo Bills are "back where they belong,'' certainly in the eyes of Bills Mafia as four-times-straight AFC East champs.

And the oddsmakers see Buffalo as being on top as well, as the Bills are favored in the most lopsided way of NFL Wild Card Weekend.

The Josh Allen-led Bills were all about clutch in winning at Miami last weekend, sending, the Dolphins tumbling toward possible trouble to start these NFL playoffs. Meanwhile, Buffalo is at home and it set up as a whopping 9.5-point favorite against a Steelers team that squeaked its way into the postseason.

Here’s a look at how the weekend in Buffalo and beyond shapes up ...

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AFC PICTURE: The Baltimore Ravens sit with the AFC No. 1 seed and sit out. The No. 2 Buffalo Bills will host the No. 7 Pittsburgh Steelers. The No. 6 Dolphins will travel to Kansas City to face the defending champs and No. 3 seed. The No. 5 Cleveland Browns are at the No. 4 Houston Texans.

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NFC PICTURE: The Packers are the No. 7 seed and oppose No. 2 Dallas. The third-seeded Lions will play host to the sixth-seeded Rams. And the No. 5 Philadelphia Eagles will travel to face the No. 4 Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Sitting and waiting are the San Francisco 49ers, who secured the NFC’s No. 1 seed, a first-round bye and home-field advantage.

Game times, TV info, Wild Card round (all times ET)

Saturday, Jan. 13 Game 1: Cleveland Browns (-2.5) at Houston Texans, 4:30 p.m. (NBC) Game 2: Miami Dolphins at Kansas City Chiefs (-3.5), 8 p.m. (Peacock)

Sunday, Jan. 14 Game 3: Pittsburgh Steelers at Buffalo Bills (-9.5), 1 p.m. (CBS) Game 4: Green Bay Packers at Dallas Cowboys (-7), 4:30 p.m. (Fox) Game 5: Los Angeles Rams at Detroit Lions (-3), 8 p.m. (NBC)

Monday, Jan. 15 Game 6: Philadelphia Eagles (-2.5) at Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 8 p.m. (ABC, ESPN)


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Mike Fisher
MIKE FISHER

Mike Fisher - as a newspaper beat writer and columnist and on radio and TV, where he is an Emmy winner - has covered the NFL since 1983. He is the author of two best-selling books on the NFL.