Are you open to the NFL changing the playoff seeding format?
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2026 2:36 am
This seems to get brought up every other year in fan community circles. Especially if a certain fanbase's team has a quality record, but not good enough to win it's own division. For example there was a contingent of 49ers fans last season that complained about the NFL needing to change seeding by record essentially reducing the importance of divisions since the 49ers had won 12 games, but it was only good enough for third in the NFC West. Meanwhile the Panthers won the NFC South with an 8-9 record. Now I'm a traditionalist, and I want the divisions to have meaning, and division rivalries to actually feel like they have legitimate stakes. I'm in the camp, that a team/team's fanbase should only care about the business within their division, first, and foremost. One recent variation I've heard is a team that wins it's division will still get a home game, but if their final record is below .500 (which has to be now since there are 17 games) they sacrifice their home game which then goes to the highest WC qualifier. I'm a bit more open to that, but still I'm not the biggest fan since at first blush that doesn't seem to take into account SOS information, just pure record.
What say you people? For format change? Against it? Don't care???
What say you people? For format change? Against it? Don't care???