The Green Bay Packers will play the Detroit Lions on Sunday night with a chance to win their fifth straight and punch their ticket to the playoffs. A Packers’ win in the last game of the season would give them the 7th seed in the NFC.
Pack is 23-9 in last game of the season since 1990
Since 1990, the Packers have been the NFL’s best team on the last day of the regular season. They are 23-9 (.719 winning percentage) in Game #16 contests since ’90 (that was the year the NFL went to a 17-week season with each team getting one bye during the regular season). Last season the NFL went to a 17-game schedule over 18 weeks.
In the Aaron Rodgers era (since 2008 when he became the Packers’ starting QB), the team is 9-5 in the last game of the year.
Here’s a look at how many wins each NFL team has had in the last game of the regular season since 1990, 32 years. (Baltimore-26, Carolina-27, Jacksonville-27, Houston-20, and Cleveland-29 had fewer than 32 games because of when they first started playing in the league.)
Most last game of the regular season wins since 1990
23-Green Bay
22-Tennessee
21-Pittsburgh
20-New England, Kansas City
19-L.A. Chargers, Philadelphia, Indianapolis, San Francisco
18-Seattle, Minnesota
17-N.Y. Giants
16-Denver, Cincinnati, Atlanta, Washington
15-Baltimore, N.Y. Jets, Carolina, New Orleans
14-Tampa Bay, L.A Rams, Miami, Buffalo
13-Dallas
12-Detroit
10-Arizona, Las Vegas Raiders, Jacksonville
9-Chicago, Houston, Cleveland
GB is 12-2 at Lambeau in last game of the regular season since ’90
There is more good news: The Packers have one of the better records in home games on the last day of the season since 1990. The Pack is 12-2 (.857) at Lambeau in the last game of the season since ’90. On the Detroit side, the Lions are 5-13 (.278) in road games in the last game of the year since 1990.
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