If either of those teams win they will be conference champion but they will need to beat the winner of the chiefs vs bengals to be the champion of the entire NFL. The NFL has two conferences AFC and NFC.
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TehWildMan_ t1_j6assbv wrote
The winners of the conference championship matches go on to the Super Bowl, which is the annual championship match between the two conferences.