The 8-3 Vikings travel to play the 9-2 Seahawks in a Monday Night Football with plenty of playoff implications.
If the season ended today, the Vikings would be the sixth-seeded team in the NFC and would play the No. 3 9-3 Packers in the wild card round of the playoffs.
With help from our friends at FiveThirtyEight, here are Minnesota’s playoff odds both with a win and with a loss
With a win
Playoff odds: 98%
Division odds: 55%
First-round bye odds: 42%
Super Bowl: 10%
With a loss
Playoff odds: 81%
Division odds: 28%
First-round bye odds: 4%
Super Bowl: 3%
Obviously, a pretty significant game for the Vikings and surely one that many don’t think they will win. But this is a game the Vikings need to win if they want to be taken seriously.
We’ll see if the Vikings can put themselves in the ‘elite’ category after this one.