NFL playoff schedule: Conference championship game dates, times, TV info

nate davis, usa today

Mon, Jan 22, 2024, 6:49 PM·2 min read

Football's Final Four? The Super Bowl semis? However you want to frame it, the NFL has reduced its 2023 season's playoff field to its elite quartet, the Baltimore Ravens, San Francisco 49ers, Detroit Lions and Kansas City Chiefs all advancing from the divisional round into next weekend's conference championship games.

For the Niners and K.C., this is familiar territory. The Chiefs are headed to their sixth consecutive AFC title game, that run of success correlating to two-time MVP Patrick Mahomes' promotion to starting quarterback in 2018. San Francisco will play in its fourth NFC championship game in the past five seasons. The 49ers have only won it once during that span, though that occurred at Levi's Stadium, where they'll be facing Detroit on Sunday.

This is certainly rarefied air for the Lions, whose only previous appearance in the NFC title round occurred 32 years ago, when they were waxed 41-10 by eventual Super Bowl champion Washington. The Ravens are 2-2 in AFC championship game since they came into existence in 1996, but they've never hosted one in Baltimore, Charm City last witnessing a conference champ when the 1970 Colts beat the Oakland Raiders before winning Super Bowl 5.

Here's a full look at the championship game matchups and the rest of the NFL playoff schedule: