rest - https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...playoff-formatNFL team owners formally approved a plan Tuesday to expand the postseason to 14 teams, beginning with the 2020 season.
During a conference call to discuss league business after the annual meetings were canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, the owners also awarded one of those extra games to CBS and one to NBC. Three-fourths of the 32 owners needed to approve the change.
The new format changes prior league practice in two ways:
• There will be a total of three wild-card teams per conference, up from two.
• The No. 2 seed in each conference will host the new No. 7 seed in the wild-card round, meaning that only the No. 1 seeds will have first-round byes.