{"id":289219,"date":"2024-12-15T09:43:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=289219"},"modified":"2024-12-17T14:34:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T20:34:33","slug":"vikings-clinch-2024-playoff-berth-ahead-of-week-15-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=289219","title":{"rendered":"Vikings Clinch 2024 Playoff Berth Ahead of Week 15 Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Minnesota Vikings are heading back to the NFC Playoffs<\/a><\/strong>. There’s still plenty to play for during the remainder of the 2024 season, but Minnesota will have a seat at the table, regardless of what happens in its final four games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Vikings (11-2) are preparing to host the Chicago Bears (4-9) on Monday Night Football<\/em> as Week 15 winds down, but the Packers 30-13 win over the Seahawks on Sunday Night Football<\/em> guaranteed a postseason berth for the Vikings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was one of three playoff-clinching scenarios for the Vikings this weekend (49ers win; or Packers win; or Vikings win). The Rams defeated the 49ers on Thursday Night Football<\/em> to open Week 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minnesota will be making the postseason for the 32nd<\/sup> time in 64 seasons. The Vikings are 21-31 all-time in playoff games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the second time in three seasons under Head Coach Kevin O’Connell for Minnesota to make the playoffs. In 2022, the Vikings won the NFC North with a 13-4 record but were the No. 3 seed after losing a tiebreaker to the Niners (13-4). The Eagles secured the NFC’s top seed with a 14-3 mark and advanced to Super Bowl LVII, and the Vikings were upset by the Giants during the Super Wild Card Round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s quite a bit of competition for the No. 1 seed this season, with the Lions (12-2) and Eagles (12-2) clinching playoff berths in Week 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Detroit entered Week 15 in the driver’s seat for the No. 1 seed thanks to an 11-game winning streak that included a 31-29 victory at U.S. Bank Stadium on Oct. 20. The Lions fell 48-42 at home against the Bills (11-3) on Sunday but still hold tiebreakers on the Eagles and Vikings if those three teams finish with the same record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Philadelphia is in strong position to win the NFC East, owning a three-game lead over Washington (9-5) with three games to play. The Eagles and Commanders face each other next week, and a win or tie will secure the NFC East for Philadelphia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the Vikings win out, they will secure the NFC North and have a shot at the No. 1 seed, depending on what happens with Philadelphia down the stretch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NFC North is the only division with three teams with 10-plus victories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Minnesota Vikings are heading back to the NFC Playoffs. There’s still plenty to play for during the remainder of the 2024 season, but Minnesota will have a seat at the table, regardless of what happens in its final four games. The Vikings (11-2) are preparing to host the Chicago Bears […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":289220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289263,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289219\/revisions\/289263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/289220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}