How to buy Cleveland Browns at Houston Texans NFL Playoff tickets

Tickets for the Cleveland Browns vs. Houston Texans Wild Card matchup are still available for as low as $100.

Not only did the Cleveland Browns earn a playoff berth during a season in which they started five different quarterbacks, the team is actually favored in their upcoming Wild Card game.

The No. 5 Browns travel to take on the AFC South champion No. 4 Houston Texans on Saturday, Jan. 13 at 4:30 p.m. EST, as the opening game of Wild Card Weekend.

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As of publication, the cheapest available Texans vs. Browns tickets were priced at $100, a bargain for an NFL playoff game.

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Odds watch: Browns are 10-point underdogs to Chiefs in divisional round of the playoffs

The 55.5 over/under is the highest line of the week

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A week after almost no one gave the Cleveland Browns a chance in facing the Pittsburgh Steelers in the wild-card round, the Browns are even bigger underdogs in the divisional round matchup in Kansas City with the Chiefs.

The Browns have opened as 10-point underdogs against the reigning Super Bowl champs at BetMGM, a line that carries consistently across most sportsbooks. At 55.5, the over/under line is the highest of the upcoming divisional round games.

Kansas City is the AFC’s top seed and earned a bye in the opening weekend. The Browns are the lowest remaining seed at No. 6. Kansas City finished 14-2 while the Browns completed the regular season at 11-5 before trouncing the Steelers in the opening round.

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Browns wild-card playoff schedule: Cleveland at Pittsburgh on Sunday Night Football

Browns wild-card playoff schedule: Cleveland at Pittsburgh on Sunday Night Football

The eagerly anticipated rematch between the Cleveland Browns and Pittsburgh Steelers in the wild-card round will be the national feature game on Sunday night.

The NFL revealed the wild-card weekend schedule of games during the Sunday Night Football matchup between the Eagles and Football Team. That very game will feature the Browns and Steelers in a week. The game is scheduled to kick at 8:15 p.m. ET on NBC’s premier broadcast.

Saturday games

Colts at Bills 1 p.m. ET

Rams at Seahawks 4:40 p.m. ET

Buccaneers at NFC East champ (Football Team or Giants) 8:15 p.m. ET

Sunday games

Ravens at Titans 1:05 p.m. ET

Bears at Saints 4:40 p.m. ET

Browns at Steelers 8:15 p.m. ET

Browns survive Steelers, make the playoffs for the first time since 2002

The longest postseason drought in the NFL is over

Ladies and gentlemen, the Cleveland Browns are in the postseason!

It’s been a long time coming, 18 years to be exact. When Baker Mayfield knelt down inside Pittsburgh territory to end the game, the Browns made the playoffs for the first time since the 2002 season.

It wasn’t easy. The Steelers closed the final margin to 24-22 with a late touchdown, but Mason Rudolph’s pass to Chase Claypool on the 2-point conversion sailed well over the receiver’s head.

There will be ample time to dissect the performance. Kevin Stefanski’s team had Browns fans chomping down fingernails with some shaky execution and interesting play calls, but the Browns ultimately prevailed.

For now, though, we celebrate a long-awaited return to the postseason.

Thank you, Browns!

Browns now have a 97 percent chance to make the postseason

A win over Baltimore in Week 14 all but clinches a postseason berth

Cancel your plans for the first weekend in January, Browns fans. The football team will almost certainly be playing in the postseason for the first time since after the 2002 season.

The 9-3 Browns have the third-best record in the AFC, trailing only the Pittsburgh Steelers (11-0 entering Monday Night Football) and Kansas City Chiefs (11-1). The Browns have a one-game lead on the second-place team in the AFC East (either Miami or Buffalo, who also plays Monday) and the runner-up in the AFC South, either the Tennessee Titans or Indianapolis Colts.

Las Vegas is two games back, Baltimore 2.5. The confluence of records, tiebreakers and probability odds of the upcoming schedule determine the Browns have a 97 percent chance of making the postseason, per NBC.

From NBC’s Sunday Night Football broadcast, a screengrab of Steve Kornacki’s enthusiastic presentation of the AFC playoff odds (via Reddit):

The Browns can’t quite mathematically clinch a postseason berth by defeating the Ravens in Week 14, but it’s an essential lock if Cleveland beats Baltimore.

Browns remaining schedule says Cleveland will still make the postseason

The Browns play 6 of their final 10 games against teams with 0 or 1 win through Week 6

Sitting at 4-2 and still holding the final AFC Wild Card berth after Week 6, the Cleveland Browns remain in good position to snap the prolonged postseason appearance drought. Some of that has to do with the team’s schedule.

Cleveland’s remaining 10 games are one of the easiest slates any of the 32 NFL teams will face the rest of the season. It’s aided by playing half of those games against teams that currently have just one victory through Week 6, as well as a date with the NFL’ only remaining winless team, the New York Jets.

Here’s what is left on the Browns schedule:

Week 7: at Bengals (1-4-1)

Week 8: Raiders (3-2)

Week 9: bye

Week 10: Texans (1-5)

Week 11: Eagles (1-4-1)

Week 12: at Jaguars (1-5)

Week 13: at Titans (5-0)

Week 14: Ravens (5-1)

Week 15: at Giants (1-5)

Week 16: at Jets (0-6)

Week 17: Steelers (5-0)

That works out to an aggregate record of 23-32-2 for the remaining 10 foes, but 15 of those wins are dispersed amongst just three teams.

According to ESPN’s projections, which combine the game locations, records and power rankings through Week 6, the Browns have the easiest road.

Other outlets, including CBS, have the Browns ranked with one of the three easiest roads.

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Browns playoff chances still very much alive

The Cleveland Browns playoff probability jumps to over 50 percent with a win over the Steelers in Week 13

At a record of 5-6, the playoffs might seem like a crazy goal for the Cleveland Browns. But three straight wins, a favorable upcoming schedule to finish out the season and a lack of good teams in the AFC all make the postseason a more realistic outcome than you might think.

The current AFC Wild Card picture is very crowded after the Week 12 Sunday outcomes. Right now the Browns sit at the No. 10 seed, looking up at four teams with 6-5 records. One of those is the Pittsburgh Steelers, who Cleveland faces in Week 13.

Pittsburgh currently holds the No. 6 seed, the final playoff spot. They win tiebreakers over the Tennessee Titans, Oakland Raiders and Indianapolis Colts based on conference record. If the Browns win in Pittsburgh on Sunday, they’ll own the tiebreaker with Pittsburgh based on sweeping the Steelers.

Alas, the picture is more complicated than that. Head-to-head only matters when there are just two teams involved. But the Browns are looking very good in any multi-team tie, too. Like Pittsburgh, the Browns are currently 5-3 against AFC opponents. A win over the Steelers seizes that tiebreaker for Cleveland.

There are still loads of outcomes that will weigh into the race over the next five weeks. The Titans and Colts play in Week 13, and then Tennessee visits Oakland the following Sunday. The Jaguars, Chargers and Jets are all 4-7 and still alive, too.

Football Outsiders calculates the current Browns playoff odds at 26.4 percent. At FiveThirtyEight, the current odds are 30 percent. Their interactive tool allows some ability to project forward, so I ran a scenario of outcomes for Week 13.

The Browns percentage jumps to 54 percent with the following hypothetical results from this coming week:

Cleveland beats Pittsburgh

Tennessee beats Indianapolis

Kansas City beats Oakland

It goes up to 57 percent probability if the Cowboys knock off the 8-3 Buffalo Bills, the current Wild Card leaders.