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The winner of Sunday night’s game will be the No. 1 seed in the NFC playoffs and the NFC North champion for the second time in three years. The loser will be the first 14-win wild card in NFL history. There just haven’t been many regular-season games with the magnitude of Sunday night’s matchup between the Vikings and Lions, the final game of a 2024 season where the NFC North has become one of the most competitive divisions in league history. On Sunday night, the Vikings can claim home-field advantage for the first time since 1998, but they’ll need to beat the Lions at Ford Field for the first time since the 2020 regular-season finale.

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