Ravens-Bengals Coin Toss Drama: When and Where to Toss a Coin and Why You Don’t Need It

When NFL Owners Vote Change Friday’s AFC playoffsnot only endorsed a potential AFC Championship game on the Neutral Site, but in another unprecedented act, the owners held a coin toss to determine the potential location of the Bengals vs. Ravens wildcard game. I voted to hold it.

The new approved playoff format will only have a coin toss if two conditions are met:

1. The Ravens beat the Bengals in Week 18 AND

2. The Bengals and Ravens will face each other in a wild card round.

The NFL announced that a coin toss would be played in the event of these two scenarios, but the league did not provide details of the coin toss. Details have emerged. I got an inside look on Sunday morning about how the coin toss works.

• 1. If the Ravens beat the Bengals, there will be a coin toss at Peycoe Stadium after the game. The NFL wants the toss to happen before the Chargers and Broncos kick off at 4:25 p.m., so the toss will happen almost immediately after the game (if the Ravens win on Sunday, the Chargers will Los Angeles is also affected somewhat here, as a loss could move them up to the 5th seed.)
• 2. There are 5 people in the coin toss room. On each team he will have two representatives and one representative from the NFL. There’s another witness, and that’s NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, who sees everything virtually.
• 3. As division champions, the Bengals will call it “heads or tails.”

If the Bengals win on Sunday, there will be no coin toss, so you can’t forget everything you just read. You can host wildcard games on

If the Ravens win and the Chargers lose to Denver, the result of the coin toss doesn’t matter because Cincinnati and Baltimore won’t meet in the playoffs. In that case, the No. 5-seeded Ravens would move to Jacksonville in the wildcard round, while the Bengals would host the Chargers.

If the Ravens and Bengals meet at any point in the playoffs after the Wild Card Round, there will be no coin toss to determine game locations. The Bengals could host it as a better seed.

bengals Frustrated by the NFL’s rule change We plan to include a coin toss this year, but a win over the Ravens could make that part of the rule change irrelevant.