Top 10 Playoff Upsets!
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The Giants beating the Patriots for the first time is still the greatest upset in NFL history
18-1
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The teams played a month before that game and the pats barely won. Nobody should’ve been surprised it went the other way the second time.
No way, see #1
@@mjf2891thank you! People keep pretending like the Giants didn't match up well against the Pats earlier in the season
Giants beating the Pats in 2007 and 2011 will forever be remembered
Especially in 2007. The 18-0 team losing was huge
@beani24329 As a Chargers fan, long may it reign. I despise the Pats
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Super Bowl XLII’s still my favorite Super Bowl of all-time.
2011 is forgettable but 2007 isnt
Justin Herbert just did his best Dan Fouts impression against Houston
Didn’t realize there was history between the Chargers vs Houston in the playoffs (I guess a new chapter was recently written) 😊
The Chargers and overrated quarterbacks is a tradition
@@mst3k54 As long as Stan "the man" Humphries is apart of that tradition 😭Still the only QB in Chargers history to take them to there only SB appearance.
You gotta remember, the 1996 Jaguars and Panthers were only in their second year. It took the Texans 9 years just to make the playoffs *at all!*
*Panthers and Jaguars
@@jamtop1105 why? The Jaguars were the one who got the bigger upset they deserve to go first.
@@OvSpP No...
@@jamtop1105 explanation by you. And until you can imma think you’re trippin.
@@OvSpP Cool story bro, I said what I said
Jets beating the Patriots in 2010 was a shocker.
Yep thanks Bill for benching Welker!
@@Shatamx bill belichick use to do some questionable things
@@Shatamx and was in BB’s doghouse after the missed catch in SB 46
Cardinals thrashing the Panthers in 2008 divisional round is a forgotten upset. Cardinals were 10-point underdogs on the road, 0-5 on the east coast that season, 1-4 against playoff teams in the regular season, and the Panthers were undefeated at home. Cardinals went onto to make the Super Bowl while the loss signaled the beginning of the end for Jake Delhomme and John Fox in Carolina.
0:21 #10 Bengals at Chiefs, 2021 AFC Championship
2:12 #9 Broncos vs. Packers, 1998 Super Bowl XXXII
4:46 #8 Vikings at 49ers, 1987 NFC Divisional
5:55 Honorable Mention: Seahawks vs. Saints, 2010 NFC Wild Card
6:20 Honorable Mention: Titans at Ravens, 2019 AFC Divisional
6:41 Honorable Mention: Colts at Chiefs, 1995 AFC Divisional
7:04 #7 Chiefs vs. Vikings, 1970 Super Bowl IV
8:07 #6 Falcons at Vikings, 1998 NFC Championship
10:04 #5 Oilers at Chargers, 1979 AFC Divisional
12:46 Honorable Mention: Chargers at Colts, 2007 AFC Divisional
13:03 Honorable Mention: Rams at Cowboys, 1979 NFC Divisional
13:23 Honorable Mention: Jets at Patriots, 2010 AFC Divisional
13:47 #4 Jaguars at Broncos, 1996 AFC Divisional
15:04 #3 Patriots vs. Rams, 2002 Super Bowl XXXVI
17:02 #2 Giants vs. Patriots, 2008 Super Bowl XLII
19:12 Honorable Mention: Giants at 49ers, 1990 NFC Championship
19:36 Honorable Mention: Patriots at Dolphins, 1985 AFC Championship
20:04 #1 Jets vs. Colts, 1969 Super Bowl III
When SF was upset by GB as a double digit home favorite in the 1995 Divisional, many at the time called it the biggest upset since Super Bowl III. Interesting how history has forgotten this one.
Historically I get that 69 Jets have to be #1. But man, those 07 Giants truly proved the adage of “On any given Sunday”
Even without the historic value, the jets playing the colts was looked at like a formality for the colts to be Super Bowl champs.
Like if the chiefs won the 2023-24 afc championship game and then for the Super Bowl, they had to play the 2023-24 falcons to receive the honor of being SB champs
No man, there's no caveats. That upset will NEVER be topped.
1995 packers beating defending champions 49ers in the divisional round and it was candlestick park was a big upset too
The 96 jags beating the broncos that year in Denver really sucked, but it really made Denver upset and they won back 2 back superbowls after that
The Bronco changed their look, signed Neil Smith, an elite DE from the rival KC Cheifs, and former 49ers and Eagles Linebacker Bill Romonowski to shore up that front 7. Big time difference makers.
Romonowski was there in 1996.
I still think the Giants beating the Pats in Super Bowl 42 is the biggest upset. Even though the Jets upset the Colts, those Jets were a great 11-3 team. That Giants team was 10-6, squeaked into the playoffs, and then beat the team that would've gone down, in many people's estimate, the best team ever.
You have to take into account how fans viewed the Jets and AFC back then. Even at that point they still didn’t take AFL teams serious. Colts were considered STACKED that year. 18 point for favorite back then is still insane even today.
@@Shatamxthat doesn’t really change the fact that a wild card team beating an undefeated team with one of the greatest offensive teams in league history with one of the greatest defensive minds in league history in the Super Bowl is the biggest upset ever. First. It’s the Super Bowl. It’s the most important game of the season. Second the giants were under double digit underdogs in every game that playoffs in memory serves correctly. Third. It’s the superbowl. No one cares who won a league championship game unless that team wins the Super Bowl.
@@Jrseydevil People tend to be biased, and guys who watched the Giants beat the Pats are going to say that's the biggest upset. When the Jets beat the Colts the AFC was considered similar to a minor league, it's just hard for anyone who wasnt around way back then to understand how big the Jets winning that game was. Giants beating the Pats was huge, but it's really apples and oranges here. That SB3 completely changed the entire football landscape at the time, unlike the Giants/Pats game, which was also amazing. I watched both games, two different animals. To compare it to basketball, it would be like a G league team beating the 95-96 Bulls
@ I get your point but I gotta disagree man. Yes I completely agree with getting a different feeling/experience being around for both games. Totally valid point. It also kinda makes you biased as well. What’s to say that nostalgia isn’t weighing in on your view? What the giants did was pure magic and a much better storyline. Eli had a 23TD/20INT regular season and then becomes Superman out of no where. He out Tom Bradyed Tom brady. TC out coached the greatest coaches in nfl history. A wild card team beat the team that a lot of people still consider to be the most complete and talented and well coached and just plain old flat out best team in the history of the nfl. I’m all for nostalgia but facts are facts man
@@Heathcoatman Agreed. There wasn't even an AFC back then. It was just the AFL, an entirely separate league considered obviously inferior until SB III. The Jets winning would be akin to the XFL champs team beating the Super Bowl champions, at least as it was perceived back then.
In 1979, the Chargers were the only NFL team that used hand signals from the sidelines to send in the play, trying to be innovative. The Oilers had a defensive coach named Eddie Biles who had successfully deciphered the hand signals. During the playoff game, Wade Phillips, defensive line coach at the time under his dad, Bum, watched the Chargers sideline with binoculars. He was able to relay the info to Biles before each Chargers offensive play. The Oilers basically knew what was coming every time the Chargers snapped the ball. It wasn't considered cheating because there were no rules against it, but in terms of plain football talent, the Chargers, who crushed the Steelers and Rams (both Super Bowl teams), were probably the best team in football. If they had just sent in a guy from the sidelines to the huddle with the play, like every other team at the time, the Chargers probably would have won it all that season.
6:55 THIS is why Jimmy Johnson cut Lin Elliot from the Cowboys in 1993 because of this crap.
The Ravens upset by the Titans was a HUGE upset
Derrick Henry ran and threw a TD in that game!
Take me back!
If Henry gets a ring he could easily be considered a top 5 HB of all time.
Yea 2019 was really supposed to be the first playoff matchup between Lamar and Pat Mahomes, Henry had different plans though.
King Henry is a Raven now
That and 2006 vs the Colts were blows that were unimaginable. And in that Colts game they were 7 point favorites despite only having a one game differential compared to Indianapolis (Which was only because the Colts defense in theory was garbage, but that was while Bob Sanders was injured). What happened? Just like the Tennessee game the Ravens failed to score a TD and made mistake after mistake.
The Giants Beating The Patriots Will Always Be One Of Greatest Upsets In NFL History
A Tom Coughlin coaching team make the top 4 twice!
Fans have to understand the Colts were NFL pride. Top of the top. No lowly AFL team like the Jets had a shot to beat them that year. Baltimore was a jewel of the original NFL. Before the NFC and AFL merger.
That upset is still legendary. Everyone thought the Jets were toast. Wouldn’t even score a point. Colts were THAT good.
SB 42 is really, REALLY, close. Just upsets happened by then. That Jets win. Nothing was like it.
49ers 2nd biggest comeback vs Giants WC game. That’s the biggest upset in history.
2012 Ravens vs the Broncos should be mentioned. Baltimore won the wild card game and then defeated the 1 overall seed Denver with prime Peyton in the Mile High Miracle, which was an incredible game. Baltimore went on to win the Super Bowl, taking down the Cheater Harbaugh and Colin the Anthem Kneeler.
2007 Giants (wildcard team) against the undefeated Pats
94 afc championship comes to mind. The chargers upset the steelers and got blown out in the super bowl
David killing Goliath wasn't an upset at all. Goliath was the underdog from the start.
#5 Was a Shocking Upset in My Opinion Between Houston and San Diego With The Chargers Throwing 5 Picks While Scoring Only 14 Points
Not even mention 9-7 giants beating the 15-1 packers?
How is the 6th seed Steelers beating the 1st seed Colts not on here? They had control pretty much the entire game too, especially if the Polamalu INT was called correctly.
Great point, should be on here. Especially considering the Colts beat the stuffing out of them on Monday night football in the end of November that year.
Yeah dat
Not even giving backup Nick Foles over the Tom Brady patriots an honorable mention is a travesty
Pats were 5.5 favored. Then lost there #1 outside threat with Cooks going down. Then Bill benching there best tackling DB all game. Which is still a head scratcher. Pats had issues tackling all game.
@@Shatamxstill tho back up qb beating the goat in the Super Bowl gotta atleast be honorable mention
Was wondering if someone was going to mention that! Go birds! 🦅
In other words the NFL reminding us Vikings fans our team still haven’t won a Super Bowl. Whatever the Nintendo Switch 2 was revealed can Madden 26 return to the console please.
Joe Namath guaranteed he was right for his Jets to shock Johnny Unitas and the heavily 18-point favored Colts 16-7 in Super Bowl III! That upset moment will be remembered forever in the history of American professional sports and it definitely tops this list of other postseason upsets without any doubt!
Players say they’re gonna win all the time what was he supposed to do say they would lose. The 2007 giants beating the undefeated patriots in the middle of the greatest dynasty of all time with the greatest quarterback and coach of all time as a wildcard team is so much more impressive
Unitas wasn't the starter that year or game. Former [1968] NFL MVP Earl Morall was. Johnny would come in off the bench to try and save the game, but he was washed as a player by that point. Earl Morall would go on to win the super bowl the next year with the Colts over the Cowboys, then two more [3 in total] with Miami. While Bob was the starting QB for Miami, Earl came in for injuries and continued the undefeated season for the Dolphins.
2001 AFCC? Pats were 10 point underdogs at Pittsburgh and Bledsoe had to manage at QB after Brady got hurt.
Damn 10? That steelers team was a juggernaut wasn’t it?
@@kevonsidek9737 Not juggernaut like the Rams were but the Steelers were very much elite that season. Steelers could've taken the Rams in Super Bowl 36 for sure. They were 13-3. The offense was 3rd in yards, 2nd in not turning it over, 2nd in not throwing Interceptions, #1 in rushing yards, 7th in points. Their defense was 3rd in points allowed, #1 in Yards, 1st Downs, Rushing Yards, TDs Allowed, and Time of Possession. The Patriots won 24-17 and a blocked field goal for a touchdown to make it 21-3 was the difference maker. Steelers were easily the better team on paper but the Patriots CREATED turnovers and were more timely
@@bostonredsox49 and people act like the raiders would’ve ran over the steelers if the tuck rule never happened lol
the 1975 cowboys vs vikings was a great game
The 2007 Giants were also underdog by 7 points vs cowboys and packers.They shock the entire world that year
*Cowboys, Packers
Possibly the greatest postseason run of all time.
Hopefully the Texans beat the chiefs at home! This weekend
Get Over here Chilfdren! NFL Throwback dropped another Banger
Not the chilfdren!
Cincy shouldve won in 2022
5:57 i’m sorry, but no way this didn’t make the cut.. reigning SB champs against a below .500 seattle team under 1st year HC Pete Carroll, on the road? not to mention one of the most iconic runs in NFL history, literally registering an earthquake giving the play a damn name? no chance this didn’t make the cut. i just know they put this in the list. i know it! come on bruh
I used to watch football a lot, but I kinda left watching the sport a couple of years ago now. But I think I can still break this down a little for the top 2 at least:
For number 2: Personally, the only reason I don’t think the Giants beating the 18-0 Pats is the biggest upset is if you look at that 2007 season, they played each other in the final regular season game, and the giants kept it close all the way through, only losing by 3, and it was high scoring, showing they can compete with the best. They were even up at halftime in that game. So I think there was a decent population of people who actually believed that they could go and win that game against the Pats and the point differential might have not been as absurd as people thought. The argument that Green Bay was the real upset is definitely one that can be made as I feel they were bigger underdogs in that game compared to the Super Bowl against New England.
As for number 1: Statistically yes, it is the biggest upset if the 19 point underdog thing is true. However, I think it’s a sour number 1 because it was literally the game that took the Jets soul. It now has them facing a bad history as if they don’t even make the playoffs by 2029, they will have the longest playoff drought span in NFL history (19 Years). To be honest and this is coming from a former Jets fan myself. I think they really do need to discontinue. Because no matter what happens, everything that was worth seeing in the team and for the future is gone and never coming back. I know it sounds like I was a disloyal fan and maybe that is true and I just had bad feelings, even mentally watching that is, but there are so many more fun things to do in life or watch on TV than a team that will never be back standing tall.
I agree with a lot of what you said. The funniest thing I ever heard about the Jets was a Jets fan got dumped by his girlfriend and his friend asked if he was okay and he said he was okay because no matter how long he goes until he gets a new girlfriend the Jets will always F*** him.
NFL Throwback,
are we gonna get a top 10 coaches of all time list?
are we gonna get running back tree and wide receiver tree (similar to the quarterback tree y’all did)?
are we gonna get a top 10 most dominant season from either a player perspective or a team perspective?
sincerely, a passionate fan
Top Ten Most Dominant Seasons sounds like great content, players and teams both!
Super Bowl 42 is the biggest playoff upset in NFL history bar none.
Look what happened in week 17 of that season.
Giants barely lost to New England in Week 17. The Giants had a better chance of beating New England than the Jets did of beating the Colts.
God, this is the best sports channel hands down. NBA take notes!
Superbowl 52 should at least be an honorable mention on this list. Not every day you see a backup QB win a superbowl against a powerful dynasty like the Patriots.
Ravens over Broncos 2013 Divisional Round. Broncos had one of, if not the highest scoring offense in NFL history and recently destroyed Baltimore a few weeks prior, but the Ravens won in overtime despite starting the game down 0-14
That was next when they had the highest scoring offense
Super Bowl 42 #1
Super Bowl 3 is the biggest upset in the history of all sports
@@michaelleroy92812nd biggest behind Miracle on Ice, but biggest NFL upset.
Really suprised the Steelers 2005 over Indianapolis wasn't on here, let alone an honorable mention. Pittsburgh barely snuck into the playoffs as the 6th Seed and were 8.5 point underdogs against a 14-2, Peyton Manning led, top seeded Indy. The two had played each other earlier that season and the result was a 26-7 Colts mauling of Pittsburgh. It deserves a spot in the Top 10.
I know. And not to mention the Colts starters hadn't played a game in 28 days leading up to that because Dungy rested them for 2 whole weeks.
No NFC Divisional Game from the 2010 season? Atlanta was the #1 seed at 13-3 and had the #5 overall offense and # 5 overall defense, and had previously beaten the Packers in the regular season. Then somehow they got throttled 21-48.
And Somehow Green Bay Got Into The Playoffs In 2010 With a 10-6 Record With a Super Bowl Win Vs Pittsburgh
Its ironic that both the Ravens vs Titans upset and Super Bowl III were on the same day 51 years apart. I'm so glad that this current Ravens team was able to get past the Curse of January 11 last Saturday against the Steelers.
Giants beating the best team ever in the '07 Pats is the greatest upset ever. Nothing else comes close.
Nah the biggest upset is definitely the Giants beating the undefeated Patriots
2nd…
I grew up in the 80's and 90's and remember the NFC Championship game literally being the Super Bowl. NFC was so much better during that period.
As a life long 9er fan that will be no 3 peat still stings
My father rooted for the giants forever. Thru the trash. So me and my older brothers, (I was 6 when the giants beat the broncos, 10 when we beat the bills) could just be happy. Kerry Collins was a tragedy, but when we beat the pats...
... If you're not a giants fan you will never understand what that felt like. EVERYONE on earth that watched that game (that wasn't a pats fan) was a giants fan.
That day, everyone was rooting for my team.
.. and then it happened again 4 years later.
Eagle fans were rooting for the giants.
I'm not gonna lie. I was rooting for the pats in that Philly special game. If aliens came down and threatened all life on earth unless the eagles beat them in a football game...
...
I'm just so frickin' grateful my father wasn't a jet fan.
The Jets beating the Colts is the absolute #1. Great job!!!
how are the giants not number one, the patriots were 18-0 and they were a wild card team????
Not at all a New York Giants fan, but their 1990 team deserves more than an honorable mention on this list. In the playoffs that season, they eliminated 2 all-time great teams in route to a Super Bowl championship: The 49ers and Bills. Some argue the 1990 49ers are the greatest team in that franchise’s history.
This one is recent, but the 7th seed Packers destruction of the Cowboys last year should be in the top 10.
Swap Giants Patriots and Jets Colts and the list is good
You forgot when the 6th seeded Steelers upset the Colts in the divisional round as 10 points underdogs in route to becoming the first 6 seed to ever win a Superbowl. It amazes me how that isnt on this list
In terms of “an underdog finds a level that maybe even they didn’t know they had to defeat a titan” Super Bowl 42 is the biggest upset in pro football history.
But maybe the most “….huh?!?! Where did THAT come from?!?” upset all of all time is the Vikings over the 49ers in the ‘87 playoffs. The ‘87 49ers were a juggernaut. Number 1 offense. Number 1 defense. 13-1 over their final 14 games with the 1 loss a 2 point loss to a 12-3 Dome Patrol Saints team. Anthony Carter with a Jerry Rice impression. It was twilight zone type stuff.
Honorable mention: 1998 wild card between the Cardinals and Cowboys.
Yes even though primetime was injured back when they used to call it turf toe lol rip pat Tillman & simeion rice was on that team in david Boston's rookie year i wanna say
How is there not even an honorable mention of the 2009 Super Bowl between the Colts and the Saints?
That wasn’t a real upset lol that saints team was a juggernaut and brees should’ve won mvp
Last time I came this early, my gf now wife cried.
Yeah, she told me about that
This nostalgic
The reason the Jaguars were able to upset the Broncos in the 1996 playoffs is because they upset the Bills the previous week; an upset never talked about. That was also the last Bills' games for Jim Kelly and Kent Hull; both retired after that game.
Super Bowl 3 is the biggest upset of all time, they didn't put this at #1 for nothing
I'm sorry but the Giants beating the undefeated Patriots in the superbowl was the greatest upset in NFL history.
Eli slaying the GOAT in 2 superbowls is tops for me. No one, literally, no one beats the Brady led Pats in the superbowl.
NFC East 3
Tom Brady 0
Ok but dude has 7 championships
Brady beat the Eagles in Super Bowl 39 though, so it's really NFC East - 3, Tom Brady - 1
Peace to the underdogs/long shots.
One of the first sporsbook props I ever placed was on The Giants to beat The Patriots in The 2007 Super Bowl.
98 Atlanta's upset over 98 Vikings (which all things considered wasn't much of an upset do to Atlanta's 14-2 regular season record) and 96 Jags upset over 96 Denver, still hurt till this day, and neither is even my favorite team 😭
Jaguars at Steelers 2017 😊
UCF legend blake bortles was like Trent dilfer that year & almost beat brady
Rams about to be on the new top 10 list
They got the number one upset right. Nobody in the universe but Joe Namath thought the Jets were gonna win that game.
Missing Ravens beating Broncos in the 2012 divisional round automatically makes this list bad... like cmon that was a game for the ages and doesn't even get a MENTION???
Commanders beating the Bucs in 2025 is an upset no one had on their bingo card
How was Seahawks vs Saints an honorable mention? First time ever an under .500 team to make the playoffs and they beat Drew Brees and the Saints against all odds? Literally no one thought the Hawks had a chance.
Good list, but I’m surprised the Browns upsetting the Steelers in the wild card round in 2020 wasn’t in this video!
jerry rice 22 tds and randy moss 23 tds teams both on the list, as well as randy moss rookie td record teams
22 receiving tds in 12 games?!! Rice was a man among boys
How is the Seahawks upset over the Saints just honorable mention? The Saints (11-5) were defending Super Bowl champions and had beaten the Seahawks (7-9) earlier in the season, 34-19. The Saints entered the game as 11-point road favorites (almost unheard of in the NFL) and the Seahawks for most of the week didn’t even know who the starting QB would be. There’s no way this game should be outside the top 10.
The biggest upset by numbers was Jets/Colts. Since it was so long ago though, most ppl will probably think of Super Bowl 42
Some great upsets in this video, and I know its cliche, but nothing can ever top the Giants/Pats upset.
Jets/Colts did.
beastquake... a team with a *losing record* vs the defending champs lol
Texans making the list this weekend 🤞🏼
They forgot to mention that Gary Anderson didn't miss a kick for 2 years prior to that miss.
2:01 Burrow holding the AFC Championship trophy after a 31-year playoff drought is still incredible, even if they came up just short of winning the Super Bowl
31 years?
May not be the first to say this, but the forgotten play in #10 is the 4th down hold before halftime
The Steelers underdog history in the 1970s should’ve been on here💀
Arguably the best dynasty team in franchise history
4 Super Bowl wins in the 1970s..
Texans are gonna be added to this after Saturday
Packers losing to the broncos in 1997 still hurts lol
Super bowl III was not an upset. It was a setup job. An early example of the league rigging game outcomes.
How about the only 7 seed to ever win a playoff game? The 2023 Packers over the Cowboys, and winning in the dominant fashion they did.
Praying for times like these for the chiefs
The 2007 Patriots were declining late in the season. They were an old team and that showed. They were far from impressive in the playoffs versus just an average Jaguars team and an injured Chargers team.
raven's broncos better be in here
This could be labeled top ten Vikings disappointments
I don’t care what anyone says the giants beating the 2007 patriots should be the greatest upset of all time. The patriots were a game away from the perfect season and the only 17-0 season ever. In my opinion They were a better team than the colts were even adjusting for the different eras they played. And the giants were just as much of an underdog because they were 9-7 and squeaked into the playoffs
Giants team was something. They had alligator blood. Just would not go away.
OOOfff Some of these are very painful!
Thumbnail 😢 Not watching this one.
Who does the voice over for this?
Welp as a Bengal fan the first 2:15 of this video just ruined my night 😂
Packers kicking Cowboys' ass?