new england patriots won the afc championship game in the 2015 nfl season.
new england patriots won the afc championship game in the 2015 nfl season.
who won the afc championship game in the 2015 nfl season?
new england patriots
on january 10, 2010, the baltimore ravens beat the patriots 33–14 here giving the patriots their first home loss in the playoffs in gillette stadium. the patriots suffered their second home playoff loss on january 16, 2011 in a 28–21 new york jets victory. during the 2012 nfl playoffs, the patriots defeated the denver broncos, 45–10, and again hosted the afc championship, where they won against the baltimore ravens, 23–20. however, the new york giants ruined the patriots' season by beating them in the super bowl for the second time. the following year, they again hosted the afc championship game, where they lost 28–13 to the baltimore ravens. during the 2015 nfl playoffs, the patriots avenged their previous defeat by the baltimore ravens by edging the ravens 35-31. they then defeated the indianapolis colts, 45-7 in the afc championship. the stadium hosted its sixth afc championship game during the 2016 playoffs, as the patriots defeated the pittsburgh steelers 36–17. in all, the patriots are 16–3 at gillette stadium in the playoffs. the seventh afc championship hosted at gillette stadium came the next year, when the patriots knocked off the jacksonville jaguars by a score of 24-20. in the 2018 season, gillette stadium hosted a divisional round game, as the patriots knocked off the los angeles chargers by a score of 41-28. their success has involved several alleged cheating scandals, but only one that has been substantiated: a 2007 violation regarding equipment being incorrectly placed within the stadium (which resulted in both fines and a stripped draft pick).
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the colts were the first number 5 seed to advance to a conference championship game since the 1990 playoff expansion. it would mark the first time since the 1970 merger that no team that was a member of the american football league at any point in its history participated in the afc championship game, as both the colts and steelers were with the "old" nfl before moving to the newly formed afc in 1970 to even out the two conferences. (since then, only the 2008 afc championship game between the steelers and their archrivals, the baltimore ravens, has the afc title been played for between two non-afl teams.) the game was a rematch of the week 3 contest between the two teams from the previous season, which the steelers won at home, 31–21. the 1995 afc championship game would be the second of four consecutive seasons in which the two teams met in pittsburgh, an uncommon sight for non-division rivals.
1995 afc championship game