Imagine telling Minnesota Vikings fans before this season that their favorite team would control their own destiny in the NFC North title race with one game left on the schedule.
That’s where the Vikings find themselves ahead of their ” Sunday Night Football ” regular-season finale. But that final game is also one of their biggest challenges with extraordinarily high stakes.
If Minnesota beats the Detroit Lions on the road, it will earn the division crown and the NFC’s No. 1 seed.
If the Vikings lose in Detroit, they will fall to second place in the NFC North and enter the playoffs as the NFC’s first wild-card team and No. 5 seed. Instead of receiving a first-round bye, they would play a wild-card playoff game on the road next week.
Here’s a full look at the Vikings’ playoff outlook entering their final game of the regular season:
Vikings NFC North odds
There are no specific odds given explicitly for the Vikings’ NFC North title odds, perhaps because their route to do so is so straightforward. They are currently the underdogs as the away team in the final edition of “Sunday Night Football” – the one game Minnesota must win to take home the division crown.