NFL Playoffs: Top 10 Divisional Playoff games in NFL history

Best divisional round games in NFL history:  1. Chiefs 42, Bills 36 (OT) (AFC: 2021)

While last year’s Wild Card Round featured plenty of blowouts, the final seven games of the 2021 NFL postseason featured six games decided by three points and one decided by six points in overtime. That latter contest was highlighted by numerous standout offensive performances, most notably by two of the league’s top quarterbacks.

The Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs were meeting in the playoffs for the second straight year. In 2020, Andy Reid’s team came away with a 38-24 triumph in the AFC title game. This time around, it was one round earlier and both clubs piled up the yards and the points. The Bills rolled up 422 yards but were substantially outgained by Reid’s club (552).

Late in the third quarter, the Chiefs owned a 23-14 advantage. After the kickoff, Bills’ quarterback Josh Allen found Gabe Davis for a 75-yard scoring strike. Following a field goal by Harrison Butker, Buffalo took a 29-26 lead with 1:54 to play thanks to the third Allen-to-Davis scoring toss.

It took the Chiefs less than a minute to regain the lead thanks to an electrifying 64-yard TD connection from Patrick Mahomes to Tyreek Hill. Buffalo owned a 36-33 edge with 13 seconds to play as Davis came up with his fourth TD grab – an NFL postseason record. But Mahomes was able to get his team into field goal position and Butker nailed a 49-yarder at the gun to send the game into overtime.

In the extra session, Mahomes drove his team 75 yards in eight plays and capped off the march with an eight-yard touchdown pass to tight end Travis Kelce for the win in a game in which neither team turned over the football.