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The Texans can lose up to two games and still make the playoffs. Winning the AFC South for the third straight season? It's much more complicated.
Over at DraftKings, the Jaguars are -165 to win the division, while the Texans are +150 and the Colts are +2200. And as of this writing, our friends at Sportsline give the Jaguars a 47% chance to win the division, while the Texans have a 34% chance and the Colts are down at 17%.
The NFC playoff picture shifted a bit on Thursday night, as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers fell to the Atlanta Falcons. Tampa ceded the top spot in the NFC South with the loss and saw its playoff chances take a hit.
The Patriots can clinch the division with a win on Sunday. The post How Patriots’ odds to win division, get AFC’s No. 1 seed can be impacted in Week 15 appeared first on Boston.com.
(kicking off at 1 p.m. ET), the New England Patriots (11-2) face the Buffalo Bills (9-4) at Gillette Stadium and are expected to win but by less than a TD, 26-23 (according to our computer prediction).
If the Panthers can beat the Saints on Sunday, they would be positioned to clinch the NFC South the following week against the Buccaneers.