Can you make the playoffs with an 8-8 record?
Aside from the 1982 strike-shortened season, which had two 4-5 teams in the postseason, there have been 14 teams with 8-8 records or worse go to the playoffs in the league's history. Some of them actually ended up winning in the postseason!
No, posting an 8–8 record is a . 500 season. There's nothing to be “considered” about it. If you win exactly as many as you lose, then you have had neither a winning season, nor a losing season.
Originally Answered: What would happen if every NFL team record be 8-8? The playoffs would still happen. If every team went 8–8, each team would have beaten certain teams and lost to others. These would still form rankings for each team, albeit tricky.
Yes, this has happened 5 times in history. The 1998 St. Louis Rams (4-12), 2000 New England Patriots (5-11), 1980 San Francisco 49ers (6-10), 2019 Tampa Bay Buccaneers (7-9) and 2016 Philadelphia Eagles (7-9) all won the Super Bowl the next season after having a losing record.
The Seahawks made history by becoming the first 7–9 team ever to make the playoffs and then did it again by becoming the first to win a playoff game, racking up 31 first downs and 474 yards, including a 67-yard touchdown run by Marshawn Lynch late in the fourth quarter.
The only three 8-seeds to make a run all the way to the Championship Game: 2014: Kentucky. 2011: Butler. 1985: Villanova went on to win the Championship in the first year the NCAA Tournament field expanded to 64 teams.
There have been a total of four teams, 1999 Titans, 2000 Ravens, 2007 Giants and the 2008 Cardinals that have reached the Super Bowl following an 8-8 season and two of those teams, the Ravens and Giants have won the Super Bowl.
500” in terms of a team's overall win-loss record means that they have the same amount of wins and losses, thus having a . 500, or 50%, win percentage. For example, a team that has “gone 500” on the season might have a record of 8-8-1 in the 17-game NFL season, or 6-6 in the 12-game college football season.
No, posting an 8–8 record is a . 500 season. There's nothing to be “considered” about it. If you win exactly as many as you lose, then you have had neither a winning season, nor a losing season.
In a sport that counts 3 for a field goal and 7 for a converted touchdown, a score with 2 or 8 as the final digit is infrequent. In fact, 2 and 8 are the worst football square numbers possible.
Can you be 0 in NFL?
Numbers 0 and 00 are no longer used, though they were issued in the NFL before the number standardization in 1973. Quarterback Johnny Clement, running back Johnny Olszewski, and safety Obert Logan all wore a single-0 jersey in the NFL.
The Chicago Bears and the Arizona Cardinals are tied for playing the most seasons, with 103 seasons.
2015 Kansas City Chiefs
then became the second 1-5 team to make the playoffs, mounting a 10-game run that extended to 11 after a shutout win over the Texans in the wild-card round.
Eight of the 13 3-5 teams to reach the postseason lost in the first round and another four lost in the next. The team that got the farthest: the 1996 Jaguars, who in their second season in the NFL, played in the AFC championship game. They lost to the Patriots 20-6.
Are we witnessing the first team to go 16-0 and eventually hoist the Lombardi Trophy? The '72 Dolphins went undefeated on the way to winning their first Super Bowl in January of 1973.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers (8-9) have clinched a playoff berth.
Yes, many NFL games have ended 0-0. Per Pro Football Reference, 73 games in pro football history have ended in a 0-0 tie. However, the last time it happened was almost 80 years ago, meaning there have been no scoreless ties in the Super Bowl era.
Since the National Football League began in 1920, only one team has played a perfect season (both regular season and playoffs): the 1972 Miami Dolphins, who won all fourteen of their regular season games and three postseason games, including Super Bowl VII, to finish the season 17–0–0.
8 seeds have advanced past No. 1 seeds in Round 1 of the playoffs, beginning with the No. 8 Nuggets' victory over the No. 1 SuperSonics during the 1994 season.
Another fact: the men's NCAA Tournament has never been without a top seed in the Elite Eight since the seeding process started in 1979. The bottom line: it's rare for a Final Four to have no No. 1 seeds, and KU is the only top seed remaining this year, so it seems to be a good omen for the Jayhawks.
Has an 8th seed ever swept a 1 seed?
8 seed defeated a No. 1 seed in a best-of-seven was in 2007 when the Golden State Warriors ousted the Dallas Mavericks, who were considered to be the title favorites going into that year's postseason.
Super Bowl III: New York Jets 16, Baltimore Colts 7
Both teams scored just one touchdown in the game, as the Jets used three field goals to jump out to a 16-0 lead.
The only 6 seeds to ever go on to win the Super Bowl: The 2005 Pittsburgh Steelers and the 2010 Green Bay Packers.
Depending on team policy, waterboys and cheerleaders may receive Super Bowl rings. The winning team will decide to whom they will give a ring. Usually, those will include all players, coaches, board of directors, and general staff.
500 record.” It's a fair point. The generally accepted definition of a . 500 record is simple: equal wins and losses.
The following procedures will be used to break standings ties for postseason playoffs and to determine regular-season schedules. NOTE: Tie games count as one-half win and one-half loss for both clubs.
If the score is still tied at the end of the overtime period, the result of the game will be recorded as a tie.
Tie games are listed as part of a team's official record, counting in the team's winning percentage as half a win and half a loss.
If all four remain above . 500 at the end of the season, it would be the first time in NFL history that all of the teams from one division finished with a winning record. That means no NFL division has ever had all of its teams finish with a winning record.
The league's other still-active charter member, the Arizona Cardinals, have recorded the most regular season losses (790), through the end of the 2022 season. The Dallas Cowboys hold the highest regular season win–loss percentage (.574), with a 550–408–6 record through the end of the 2022 season.
What is the rarest score in football?
The lowest possible score is 0-0 and has been achieved 73 times, though the most recent scoreless tie came on Nov. 7, 1943.
9 is usually given to a football team's centre forward or main striker, a prolific goalscorer in any given formation, especially the likes of 4-3-3, 4-2-2 or 4-2-3-1.
A conversion safety by the defense is also possible, though highly unlikely; although this has never occurred, it is the only possible way a team could finish with a single point in an American football game.
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1945: Commissioner Elmer Layden, apparently with way too much time on his hands, decides that NFL players have unsightly legs and decrees that all players must wear long stockings. This rule, still on the books, is why NFL players wear high socks while so many NCAA teams still play bare-legged.
NFL Network insider Mike Garafolo reports that newly-signed Los Angeles Rams quarterback Baker Mayfield will wear jersey No. 17 for the Rams.
The Eagles are now the 28th team in NFL history to start 8-0. They join a list that includes eight Super Bowl champions and seven Super Bowl runner-ups.
In 2001, the Columbus Wardogs made history becoming the first American football team to finish a season 0–16. The Legends Football League (originally Lingerie Football League), whose seasons are only three to four games long for each team, has had eight teams with perfectly bad seasons in three years of play.
The Patriots finished the season 16-0 thanks largely to an offense that scored an NFL-best 36.8 points per game and defeated its first 8 opponents by a combined 204 points. Patriots QB Tom Brady won the league MVP after leading the NFL with 4,806 passing yards and set the single-season record with 50 TD throws.
There have been a total of four teams, 1999 Titans, 2000 Ravens, 2007 Giants and the 2008 Cardinals that have reached the Super Bowl following an 8-8 season and two of those teams, the Ravens and Giants have won the Super Bowl.
Does the 8th seed make the playoffs?
If the 8 seed won the game, it would advance to the playoffs. If the 9 seed won, a second game would be played. Only if the 9 seed won the second game would it advance to the playoffs.
Based on winning percentage, the 1967 Baltimore Colts had the best regular season record at 11-1-2 to not make the NFL Playoffs.
8 seeds have advanced past No. 1 seeds in Round 1 of the playoffs, beginning with the No. 8 Nuggets' victory over the No. 1 SuperSonics during the 1994 season.
2020 Washington Football Team
While this can be classified as a rally by default, this Washington team (7-9) did make some history by winning a putrid NFC East. This is the only team to start 3-7 and make the playoffs.
Villanova is the only 8-seed to not only face a No. 1 seed in the championship, but the only team to win the NCAA Men's Championship as an 8-seed. North Carolina looks to be the second team to ever take down a No. 1 seed in the championship game on Monday.
Adding an eighth playoff team in each conference isn't something that has been discussed, NFLPA Executive Director DeMaurice Smith said during a conference call Thursday, but doing so would require additional bargaining to ensure those eighth team players and the teams that would have received a bye by being the No. 1 ...
The chalk largely held in the end for March Madness as a 1-seed and two 2-seeds reached the Final Four. The outlier was North Carolina, which upset 1-seed Baylor and 4-seed UCLA on its way to the Final Four as an 8-seed.
There have been 73 games in pro football history that ended in a 0-0 tie, according to Pro Football Reference. But it's been nearly 80 years since the last one, meaning there's yet to be a scoreless tie in the Super Bowl era.
Yes, many NFL games have ended 0-0. Per Pro Football Reference, 73 games in pro football history have ended in a 0-0 tie. However, the last time it happened was almost 80 years ago, meaning there have been no scoreless ties in the Super Bowl era.
So far, 1,075 different final scores have been achieved in NFL history. The lowest possible score is 0-0 and has been achieved 73 times, though the most recent scoreless tie came on Nov. 7, 1943.
Has a 1 seed ever lost?
On March 16, 2018, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Retrievers became the first 16-seed to upset a 1-seed when they defeated the Virginia Cavaliers 74–54 in the first round.
UMBC is the only No. 16 seed to ever beat a No. 1 seed since the field expanded to 64 teams in 1985. Entering the 2022 tournament, No.
There has only been one team to win the national championship as a No. 8 seed-- That was No. 8 Villanova in 1985, when the Wildcats won the first-ever tournament that featured 64 teams.
