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1990–91 NFL playoffs — Wikipedia (en)

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The National Football League playoffs for the 1990 season began on January 5, 1991. The postseason tournament concluded with the New York Giants defeating the Buffalo Bills in an all-New York matchup in Super Bowl XXV, 20–19, on January 27, at Tampa Stadium in Tampa, Florida. The league expanded its playoff system from a 10-team to a 12-team tournament, which remained in use through the 2019–20 NFL playoffs. With these changes, three wild card teams (those non-division champions with the conference's best won-lost-tied percentages) qualified from each conference, up from two the year before. The format consisted of the following: The three division champions from each conference were seeded 1–3 based on their regular season won–lost–tied record. Three wild card qualifiers were seeded 4, 5, and 6 within the conference. With the addition of the third wild card team, the lowest-seeded division winner would be guaranteed a home playoff game as they would host the lowest-seeded wild-card team in what was now the Wild Card Round; after the introduction of a second wild card team for 1978, all three division winners would receive a bye to the Divisional Playoffs, but the third-seeded team would have to play on the road against either the first or second seeded teams (this all depended on whether the Wild Card Game winner came from the same division as the top seed, as teams were not allowed to play wild card winners from their divisions) and could only host the conference championship game provided that they were the highest remaining seed. The Divisional Playoffs did away with the previous rule that prohibited inter-divisional matchups. Instead, the lowest-seeded winner from the Wild Card Round would be paired against the top seed in one game, and the second seed would play the other winner with the highest remaining seed hosting the conference championship the following week. In each conference, the matchup between the 3 and 6 seeds in the wild-card round dictated where the wild-card round winners traveled to for the divisional round: If the 3-seeded team won, they traveled to the 2-seeded team while the winner of the 4 vs. 5 matchup traveled to the 1-seeded team. If the 6-seeded team won, they traveled to the 1-seeded team while the winner of the 4 vs. 5 matchup traveled to the 2-seeded team. This system was later modified before the 2002–03 NFL playoffs after the league realigned the teams into eight divisions (four per conference). The number of teams in the playoffs remained the same, but now there were four division champions and two wild card teams from each conference. This system was kept until 2020, when the third wild card team was restored, but only the top seed received a bye to the Divisional Playoffs in each conference. As of the 2025–26 playoffs, this is the last postseason in which all division winners won a playoff game.

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Wikidata Q4586569: «NFL seasonal playoff games» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4586569
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