There are 10 weeks of regular season football left to play and no team is out of the mix … mathematically, at least.
The race for the No. 1 seed in the AFC doesn’t look like it’ll be including the New England Patriots or Las Vegas Raiders anytime soon, though. In all likelihood, that competition is a four-horse race between the division leaders all deadlocked at 6-2.
The Jacksonville Jaguars are tied with the Kansas City Chiefs, Miami Dolphins, and Baltimore Ravens for the conference’s best record through eight weeks. The tiebreakers float the Chiefs to the top of the mix, but it’s still too early for most of those — outside of Kansas City’s Week 3 win against the Jaguars — to matter.
There’s also a Week 9 matchup between the Chiefs and Dolphins in Germany, a Sunday night game in Week 15 between the Jaguars and Ravens, and a New Year’s Eve meeting in Week 16 between the Ravens and Dolphins that all loom large.
With nine games left for each team, which has the best shot at coming out on top? Here’s how things stack up heading into the last two months of the season (all odds via BetMGM):