{"id":465957,"date":"2025-12-23T05:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T05:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/465957\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T05:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T05:40:12","slug":"jaguars-clinch-playoff-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/465957\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaguars Clinch Playoff Appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>JACKSONVILLE<\/strong> \u2013 The Jaguars are back in the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>The Jaguars, winners of six consecutive games and seven of their last eight, clinched a spot in the AFC playoff field on Monday night when the Indianapolis Colts lost to the San Francisco 49ers, 48-27, in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p>The Jaguars (11-4) are assured of at least an AFC wild-card spot. They lead the AFC South by a game over the Houston Texans (10-5) and can clinch the division with a victory at Indianapolis Sunday if the Texans lose to the Los Angeles Chargers (11-4) on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Jaguars currently hold the AFC&#8217;s No. 3 seed, a game behind the AFC West-leading Denver Broncos (12-3) and the AFC East-leading New England Patriots (12-3). The Jaguars will be the No. 1 seed with a first-round bye if they win their final two regular-season games \u2013 at Indianapolis Sunday and at home against the Tennessee Titans (3-12) in Week 18 and if the Broncos and Patriots each lose once.<\/p>\n<p>The Jaguars beat the Broncos, 34-20, in Denver Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the ninth postseason appearance in franchise history, with previous appearances coming in the following seasons: 1996-1999, 2005, 2007, 2017 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p>They won the 1998-1999 AFC Central titles, then won AFC South titles in 2017 and 2022. They made the postseason as a wild-card team in 1996-1997, 2005 and 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE \u2013 The Jaguars are back in the postseason. The Jaguars, winners of six consecutive games and seven&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":465958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,211995,3188,723,57224,7310,58963,61384,130189,58960,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-465957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-article-2025-playoff-picture","10":"tag-fl","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-front-page-headline","13":"tag-jacksonville","14":"tag-john-oehser","15":"tag-news-front-page-headline","16":"tag-news-game-week","17":"tag-news-jaguars-news","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115767281484802222","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}