AFC Standings 2026 Through Week 8

The American Football Conference as of Week 8: playoff seeds 1-7 as if the season ended today, worked out with the NFL’s tie-breaking procedure, then the division races and all 16 clubs.

Updated with results through Monday, November 2 · next update after the Thursday, November 5 games

Games included: the 121 regular-season games played through : Weeks 1-8, every game. The page rebuilds itself with each new result.

AFC Division Leaders 2026

The club in first place in each AFC division as of Week 8, after the division tie-break where two clubs share a record. The four leaders take seeds 1-4.

Division Leader Record Lead Seed
AFC East BUFBills 6-1 1.5 games ahead of the Patriots 1
AFC North PITSteelers 6-2 0.5 games ahead of the Bengals 3
AFC South JAXJaguars 5-2 3 games ahead of the Texans 4
AFC West DENBroncos 6-2 0.5 games ahead of the Chiefs 2
The lead is in games: half the difference in wins plus half the difference in losses over the second-placed club.

AFC Playoff Seeds 2026: If the Season Ended Today

The four division leaders are seeded 1-4 by record and the three best other clubs are the wild cards, seeds 5-7. Equal records are separated by the steps listed under how ties set the seeds. The other nine follow in the order the same procedure gives.

Seed Team Division W L T PCT CONF DIV SOV SOS Status
1 BUFBills East 6 1 0 .857 4-1 0-1 .422 .453 Division leader
2 DENBroncos West 6 2 0 .750 3-1 2-1 .467 .542 Division leader
3 PITSteelers North 6 2 0 .750 3-2 2-1 .435 .484 Division leader
4 JAXJaguars South 5 2 0 .714 4-2 1-1 .487 .500 Division leader
5 KCChiefs West 5 2 0 .714 5-1 3-1 .342 .426 Wild card
6 CINBengals North 5 2 0 .714 4-2 1-1 .289 .415 Wild card
7 NEPatriots East 5 3 0 .625 5-1 3-0 .500 .557 Wild card
8 CLEBrowns North 5 3 0 .625 3-3 2-1 .436 .484 Level with No. 7
9 LVRaiders West 4 4 0 .500 3-3 1-1 .172 .424 1 GB
10 BALRavens North 4 4 0 .500 2-3 0-2 .281 .443 1 GB
11 HOUTexans South 2 5 0 .286 2-3 2-1 .400 .510 2.5 GB
12 NYJJets East 2 6 0 .250 2-3 0-2 .375 .516 3 GB
13 INDColts South 2 6 0 .250 1-5 1-2 .321 .534 3 GB
14 MIADolphins East 1 6 0 .143 1-4 1-1 .250 .635 3.5 GB
15 TENTitans South 1 7 0 .125 1-5 1-1 .250 .434 4 GB
16 LACChargers West 0 7 0 .000 0-4 0-3 .000 .593 4.5 GB
CONF is the record against AFC opponents and DIV the record in division games. SOV (strength of victory) is the combined win percentage of the clubs a team has beaten and SOS (strength of schedule) that of every club it has played, both from the games so far. GB is games behind the No. 7 seed.

How Ties Set the AFC Seeds

Clubs with the same record are ordered by the NFL’s tie-breaking procedure, applied to the scores so far. Inside a division the steps are head-to-head, division record, common games, conference record, strength of victory, strength of schedule, then rankings in points and net points. For seeds, which compare clubs from different divisions, head-to-head counts only between two clubs that met or when one club beat (or lost to) all the others; then come conference record, common games (at least four), strength of victory, strength of schedule and the points steps. The tiebreakers explainer walks through the full procedure. Every tie that decided a place here, with the values that decided it:

No tie here needed net touchdowns or a coin toss, the two last steps, which this page does not compute.

AFC Standings 2026 by Division

Each AFC division in tie-break order, with each club’s seed (1-7) if the season ended today.

AFC East Standings 2026

Team W L T PCT PF PA NET DIV SEED
BUF Bills 6 1 0 .857 233 181 +52 0-1 1
NE Patriots 5 3 0 .625 184 162 +22 3-0 7
NYJ Jets 2 6 0 .250 170 188 -18 0-2 –
MIA Dolphins 1 6 0 .143 117 181 -64 1-1 –

AFC North Standings 2026

Team W L T PCT PF PA NET DIV SEED
PIT Steelers 6 2 0 .750 180 144 +36 2-1 3
CIN Bengals 5 2 0 .714 206 158 +48 1-1 6
CLE Browns 5 3 0 .625 139 173 -34 2-1 –
BAL Ravens 4 4 0 .500 179 203 -24 0-2 –

AFC South Standings 2026

Team W L T PCT PF PA NET DIV SEED
JAX Jaguars 5 2 0 .714 196 111 +85 1-1 4
HOU Texans 2 5 0 .286 165 170 -5 2-1 –
IND Colts 2 6 0 .250 161 222 -61 1-2 –
TEN Titans 1 7 0 .125 144 199 -55 1-1 –

AFC West Standings 2026

Team W L T PCT PF PA NET DIV SEED
DEN Broncos 6 2 0 .750 172 165 +7 2-1 2
KC Chiefs 5 2 0 .714 167 131 +36 3-1 5
LV Raiders 4 4 0 .500 221 230 -9 1-1 –
LAC Chargers 0 7 0 .000 99 175 -76 0-3 –
How these standings are built: every record comes from the public nflverse game log, refreshed each time the site is rebuilt, and the order comes from the tie-breaking steps above, computed from the scores. On November 4, 2026 every team's record, points, division record and conference record matched ESPN's standings, and so did ESPN's AFC division order and seeds 1-16. The page is only rewritten when ESPN’s order agrees with the one computed here. PCT counts a tie as half a win, NET is points for minus points against. Net touchdowns and the coin toss, the procedure’s last steps, are not computed. The seeds, tie-break steps and the games behind them are in conference-standings-2026.json; every team’s line and game is also in standings-2026.json.

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