A AFC presently consists of Sixteen teams, organized into quaternion divisions (N, South, East, & West) of quaternion teams every. Apiece team plays a more teams in their section twice (page & away) during the regular season in addition to 10 other games/teams assigned to their schedule by the NFL in the May before. Ii one games come assigned on the basis of the teams' final record in the last year. A unexpended Ogdoad games come split between a roll of deuce more NFL divisions. This assignment shifts both season. E.g., in the 2005 regular year, both team in the NFC East will play a game for each one against each team within both a AFC West and the NFC West. In that way section competition consists of most common opponents, by owning a exception of the Ii games assigned on the nature and severity of the both team's prior year record.

At a prevent of both football season, there are playoff games involving a top sextet teams in a AFC (the quaternion section champions by place standing & the top deuce remaining not section prizewinning teams ("wildcards") by record). Them teams left play in the AFC Championship game with a winner getting the Lamar Hunt Trophy. A AFC Champion plays a NFC Champion in the Super Bowl.