Get the cold weather gear ready because the Ravens are traveling north to Buffalo to take on the Bills in the divisional round of the playoffs.
The game is set for 6:30 p.m. Sunday night and will air on CBS and Paramount+.
The No. 2-seeded Bills routed the No. 7-seeded Broncos, 31-7, Sunday afternoon, setting up a heavyweight matchup with the Ravens at Highmark Stadium.
The top billing will be Lamar Jackson versus Josh Allen, a battle between two quarterbacks who have been endlessly measured up to each other in the MVP debate this season.
The game will feature two of the league’s top rushing attacks, driven by a combination of dual-threat quarterbacks and top-tier running backs. The Bills ran for 210 yards in their win over the Broncos.
The two teams met at M&T Bank Stadium in Week 4 with the Ravens running wild in a 35-10 victory. Derrick Henry took the Ravens’ first offensive play 87 yards for a touchdown and he and the Ravens never looked back. Henry finished that game with a season-high 199 rushing yards.
Baltimore’s ground game has only gotten better since. The Ravens racked up 299 rushing yards in their wild-card win over the Steelers.
The Bills offense has been much more formidable since that regular-season meeting, too. In that game, Allen was held without a touchdown and running back James Cook was limited to just 39 rushing yards. But the Bills controlled the line of scrimmage and dominated time of possession in their playoff win over the Broncos. Allen threw two touchdowns.
This will be Jackson’s second playoff trip to Buffalo in the divisional round. The Ravens lost, 17-3, in the 2020 playoffs when the Bills had a 101-yard interception return for a touchdown at the end of the third quarter and Jackson excited the game with a concussion on the next drive after he was hit following a high snap.
Now Jackson and the Ravens will have another chance to knock off the Bills on the road in the playoffs and get to a second-straight AFC Championship game. The top-seeded Kansas City Chiefs will host the No. 4-seeded Houston Texans in the AFC’s other divisional playoff game on Saturday.
Being scheduled on Sunday instead of Saturday gives Ravens top wide receiver Zay Flowers an extra day to try to return from the knee injury that sidelined him for the wild-card playoffs.
