Divisional Round Preview

AXC

Vancouver Vandals (Setherick)
1-0 playoff record (owner)
1-2 playoff record (francise)
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Dakota Blizzard (Cjfred68)
16-6 playoff record (owner/francise)

Way back in 2018 Dakota traveled to Vancouver and won 34-26 on route to their 1st XFL Championship.

Buffalo Skull Crushers (Smirt211)
7-7 playoff record (owner/francise)
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Oakland Outlaws (Crazyrazor)
2-2 playoff record (owner)
11-5 playoff record (franchise)

These two teams have played 5 times in the playoffs with Oakland leading 3 games to 2 over Buffalo. Oakland is 2-1 at home in these matchups.

NXC

Gem City Gangsters (Raidergreg69)
5-3 playoff record (owner)
5-4 playoff record (francise)
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St. Paul Punishers (Wolveraider)
0-1 playoff record (owner)
4-6 playoff record (francise)

These division rivals have never met in the playoffs. They are 3-3 head to head over the post 3 seasons with the home team winning every game.

Vegas Black Aces (Claymore)
1-0 playoff record (owner/francise)
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Brooklyn Hitmen (4343)
3-3 playoff record (owner/francise)

These 2 teams met last season in the playoffs in Brooklyn with the home team winning 20-6.

Good game Gangsters/rg.....aside from the score....the only numbers that mattered....Punishers 6 turnovers....Gangsters 0....we're not going to beat a bad team, much less one of your teams playing like that.

Best of luck the rest of the way.

That's crazy I only won the game by 5 points with a +6 turnover ratio. I'll take the victory but we'll need that same defense, and a much better offense to get past the Hitmen.

GG Smirt. As soon as you broke that long TD run I turned it off. lol
Good luck in the next round. :)

Good game, Crazy Razor. I wrote that play down as a note to deal with the next time I have a streaming service against me. (wasn't this game, I spoke on it recently)

You've battered me up recently and I know we'll have more battles to come, bro.

Well, my road 99% chance ends here. I need a jouameng roster structure to somehow survive a locked in CJ and Randall Cunningham. I'll try my best, though!

Gg Seth....fantastic run you made for just taken over the team. You will be a problem going forward once you get a full offseason under your belt.

Good Game Hitmen

I knew that after the perfect wild card game it would roll to the bad and it was a KFC dumpster fire. with way too many penalties that kept your drives alive. And then throwing five Picks and
your Big plays. Keep it up and get to the Finals

Divisional Round Recap

Vancouver Vandals 8
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Dakota Blizzard 25

Vancouver did a good job running the football but the difference in the game were the big plays. Vancouver's longest play from scrimmage was just 18 yards while Dakota hit big plays of 35, 61 and 68 yards.

Buffalo Skull Crushers 19
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Oakland Outlaws 10

Oakland completely outgained Buffalo 412 to 250 yards and held Buffalo to just 6 1st downs but Buffalo scored on a long run and turned Oakland turnovers into points.

Gem City Gangsters 18
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St. Paul Punishers 13

Gem City rode the leg of their kicker Gustavo Fring to 6 fieldgoals and the win. Four St. Paul interceptions turned into 12 points for Gem City which was the difference.

Vegas Black Aces 15
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Brooklyn Hitmen 40

The game featured a combined 9 turnovers and a kickoff return for a TD. Brooklyn scored early and often and quickly pulled away from Vegas.

Conference Championship Preview

AXC

Buffalo Skull Crushers
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Dakota Blizzard


AXC CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS
2018 Dakota 26 @ Baltimore 3
2019 Dakota 18 @ Oakland 30
2020 Dakota 20 @ Buffalo 24
2021 Buffalo 21 @ Oakland 36
2022 Dakota 13 @ Oakland 6
2023 Pittsburgh 17 @ Dakota 29
2024 Buffalo 24 @ Dakota 55

This is Dakota's 7th AXC Conference Championship game (4-2) and Buffalo's 4th (1-2). The two teams have faced each other twice in this game and split. Every season but 2025 has had at least one of these teams in the Conference championship game.

NXC

Gem City Gangsters
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Brooklyn Hitmen

NXC CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES
2022 Seattle 6 @ Gem City 9
2023 Brooklyn 13 @ Atlanta 20

This is both teams 2nd trip to the Conference Championship game with Gem City winning at home and Brooklyn losing on the road.

Good game, CJ. We actually did a much better job of containing Cunningham but had no shot without Bobby Reynolds. With him I believe it plays out with us getting clipped by a touchdown.