Super Bowl 43 – Beginning of January

The crowning event of the National Football League is by far the biggest soccer game in the world and possibly the biggest event in all of sports in the United States.

The Titans started the season with a perfect 10-0 record before being beaten 34-10 at home by the New York Jets. They have rallied to win their last two games with an impressive 12-1 record, good for a two-game lead over the Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC.

In each conference, four division winners qualify for the playoffs along with the two teams with the next best records. If it ended now, the Giants, Panthers, Arizona Cardinals and Minnesota Vikings would all be hailed as winners of the NFC division. The Giants and Cardinals have already secured their respective division crowns. The Tampa Bay Bucs and Dallas Cowboys would qualify as the two wild card teams. In the AFC, the Titans, Steelers, Jets and Denver Broncos would be crowned division champions if the playoffs started today. The Baltimore Ravens and Indianapolis Colts would win the last two positions.

Securing one of the top two records in each conference is critical, as teams that accomplish that task earn byes in the first round of the playoffs. The other four playoff teams in each conference must play an opening game in the postseason to reach the conference semifinals, where the top two seeds will be waiting. As a result, the Giants and Panthers currently have the best chance of reaching Super Bowl 43 outside of the NFC, while the Titans and Steelers look good in the AFC.

The Giants are seeking their second consecutive Super Bowl trophy. Last season they stunned the New England Patriots, who were unbeaten 18-0 going into the final game. This year, New England is 8-5 and fighting for its division title along with the Jets and Miami Dolphins. Missing out on the playoffs would deny New England the chance to win its fourth Super Bow in the last nine years. Tennessee has never won the NFL’s biggest prize, but the Titans last made it to the Super Bowl in 2000, when they fell to the St. Louis Rams.

There are three weeks left in the NFL regular season as all 32 teams continue to battle for playoff position. When the season wraps up at the end of December, the playoffs will begin the first weekend of January, and that’s when the road to Super Bowl 43 really begins.