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NFL 2026 · Regular season Week 13

What does Packers vs Saints change in the NFL playoff race?

Packers

Green Bay Packers

5-3

1:00 PM ET

Scheduled

Saints

New Orleans Saints

2-5

Sun, Dec 6, 2026 · 1:00 PM ET (Dec 7, 03:00 KST)Caesars Superdome, New Orleans

What's at stake

Current standings (120 games played league-wide) plus this one result, recomputed for the 16 NFC teams. Arithmetic, not odds.

Packers win

Saints win

  • PackersNFC #7→#8 seedwild-card spot→outside the top 7
  • SaintsNFC #15→#14 seed
6 more teams

Tie

    5 more teams

    Both teams going in

    TeamSeedMagicTragicDivision magic
    PackersNFC #7 seed · 5-37---
    SaintsNFC #15 seed · 2-515-9-

    Magic number = wins left to lock a top-7 seed (division magic: first place); tragic number = losses left until elimination. Ties count against the team in question (official tiebreakers such as head-to-head are not applied; equal records are ordered by BALLDONTLIE seed). How we calculate →

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    Team records

    Season records as listed by BALLDONTLIE.

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    • Seed — seven teams per conference (AFC, NFC) make the playoffs. The four division winners take seeds 1–4 whatever their records; the best three of the rest take seeds 5–7.
    • Wild card — seeds 5–7, earned on record without winning the division. Only the No. 1 seed skips the first round (the Wild Card round).
    • Tie — a regular-season game still level after a 10-minute overtime ends as a tie, counted as half a win in winning percentage.
    How we calculate →

    Game data: BALLDONTLIE. Magic numbers, tragic numbers and seeds are computed by this site.