NFL Playoffs 2015: Odds and Bracket Scenarios for Conference Championships

While the Super Bowl is two weeks away, the conference title games serve as the de facto Super Bowl Eve, a joyous holiday in its own right, which often showcases some of the most compelling football you'll see all year. 

Sunday's action should be no exception, as the two best teams in the NFC this season face off, while the league's most decorated postseason quarterback takes on its next big thing. Are you excited yet?

You should totally be excited. To help pump you up even more, below you'll find the schedule, odds and an overview of the action. It's gonna be fun.

Schedule

Odds

Matchup	Spread
Green Bay Packers at Seattle Seahawks	Seahawks (-7.5)
Indianapolis Colts at New England Patriots	Patriots (-7)

Overview

There are a lot of things the Green Bay Packers need to be worried about heading into their matchup against the Seattle Seahawks.

Seattle's seven-game winning streak. Their 17-2 record at home over the past two years. The league's best secondary and arguably its best defense for the second year in a row. Marshawn Lynch's bruising running style. Russell Wilson's escapability and uncanny knack for extending the play and finding a receiver down the field or a running lane to exploit.

But perhaps more than anything, the Packers need to worry about the health of Aaron Rodgers, who remains less than 100 percent as he recovers from a calf injury.

Rodgers is as good at improvising and making a play when things break down as any other quarterback in the league, but his mobility is going to be limited against Seattle. Even with a fully healthy Rodgers, Green Bay would be an underdog heading to Seattle. With a hampered Rodgers, it's hard to see them beating the defending Super Bowl champions. 

It's just as hard to see the Indianapolis Colts going into New England and getting the better of Bill Belichick, Tom Brady and the Patriots. You could make the argument that the Colts likely wouldn't have even beaten the Denver Broncos were Peyton Manning healthy, but that unfairly diminishes the Colts' achievement and they could only beat the team on the field they were facing. 

Indy is a good team, led by the league's brightest young star in Andrew Luck. But Luck is 0-3 against the Patriots in his career, including the 42-20 shellacking the Pats put on the Colts earlier in the year, when New England rushed for 246 yards. 

The Colts simply have more holes than the Patriots, which is compounded by the fact that the Patriots are 17-1 at home in the past two seasons. And the fact that Belichick is an evil genius. And Brady always comes up huge in these games. And Rob Gronkowski is arguably the most impossible matchup in the league. And Darrelle Revis has the ability to completely take his wide receiver assignment out of the game. And...

Well, you get the point. It would be a huge shock if the Colts knocked off the Patriots. Expect to see Seattle versus New England in the Super Bowl.