Tennessee Titans to host Cincinnati Bengals in divisional round of NFL playoffs
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The Tennessee Titans’ playoff opponent has been set.
With the Chiefs topping the Steelers Sunday night, the top-seeded Titans will host the fourth-seeded Bengals in the divisional round at Nissan Stadium, as Cincinnati is the lowest remaining seed left in the AFC after Super Wild Card Weekend.
Titans-Bengals will be played Saturday (3:30 p.m. CT, CBS). The Chiefs will host the Bills in the other AFC divisional-round matchup. The AFC Championship game is Jan. 30.
The Bengals went 4-11-1 in 2020 but won 10 games this season to win the AFC North, their first division title since 2015. Cincinnati’s victory over Las Vegas on Saturday marked its first playoff win since it beat the Houston Oilers – now the Titans – in the 1990 AFC Wild Card on Jan. 6, 1991.
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Coming off a first-round bye, the Titans ended the regular season winning three straight games and four of their last five. They’re also expected to have Derrick Henry for the divisional round, though he remains on injured reserve for now. The star running back missed the last nine games of the regular season with a foot injury.
The Titans last played the Bengals in 2020, falling to Cincinnati 31-20 in Week 8.
Against Cincinnati, Tennessee will aim for its first conference championship game berth since the 2019 season, when it fell to the Chiefs for the AFC’s bid to Super Bowl LIV. The Titans lost to the Ravens in the wild-card round last season.
Ben Arthur covers the Tennessee Titans for The USA TODAY Network. Contact him at barthur@gannett.com and follow him on Twitter at @benyarthur.
This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Tennessee Titans vs. Cincinnati Bengals: NFL playoffs divisional round
