The NFL playoff picture cruises into Week 18, where four divisions are up for grabs. On Jan. 3, Panthers-Bucs could decide the NFC South. If Carolina wins, the Panthers clinch the division. If Tampa Bay wins, the Bucs need a Saints win over Atlanta to secure another division crown.

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The Week 18 NFL schedule and the regular season concludes on Sunday since there is no 'Monday Night Football' this week. It's the final opportunity to set NFL DFS lineups with a full player pool, and some of the big names available on the Week 18 'main slate' include Drake Maye,

The long, winding road to the 2025 NFC South champion concluded in Week 18 among the NFL playoff picture on Jan. 4. Atlanta's win over New Orleans on Jan. 4 clinched the division for the Carolina Panthers despite Carolina's loss at Tampa Bay on Jan. 3.

The Houston Texans are safely in the playoffs, though the team could see its seeding move quite a bit depending on what happens in Week 18. The Texans enter the week as the No. 5 seed in the AFC, though the team could move as high as No. 3 and as low as No. 7 based on what happens during the final week of the regular season.

The San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks will meet on Saturday at Levi's Stadium. Here's who experts think will win the regular-season finale.

The calendar has officially flipped from 2025 to 2026, ringing in the new year as conference games tip off across college basketball. The AP Poll voters got a week off from ranking teams with no real movement last week amid a slow end to non-conference schedules, but things have already ramped back up.

No one would have expected Taylor Swift‘s “The Life of a Showgirl” to lose its grip on the album chart in week 2, and it indeed held on at the top of the Billboard 200, with 338,000 equivalent album units in its second week out. Last week, Swift set ...

The New Orleans Saints hosted a watch party presented by Bud Light for their game against the Atlanta Falcons on Jan. 4, 2026 at Parlay's in New Orleans, Louisiana. Members of the Saints Cheer Krewe and Sir Saint were in attendance and interacting with fans during the event.