NFL Playoff Picture: Will Packers, Steelers Meet in Super Bowl XLV Rematch?

Only once in modern NFL history have two teams met in the Super Bowl in back-to-back years, the Dallas Cowboys and Buffalo Bills in 1993 and 1994.

It's a difficult feat for both teams to achieve in the ever-changeable league, but there's a chance that last year's Super Bowl contestants, the Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers, can pull off the unlikely rematch.

The Packers, at 14-1, are heavy favorites to repeat as Super Bowl champions, and while it's going to be a difficult path for the team to win out this year, they have as good a shot as any team to do so in recent years.

They've shown no sign of the dreaded "Super Bowl Hangover" this season, instead stomping opponent after opponent thanks to the overwhelming strength of their Aaron Rodgers-led offense.

The Steelers, in contrast, haven't been as dominant as the Packers this year, but have lost just four games to three of the league's best teams.

However, the Steelers could easily face two of those three teams in the playoffs and they'll of course need to fare better than they did the first time around (and second, as far as the Baltimore Ravens are concerned) if they hope to represent the AFC in the Super Bowl for the second consecutive year.

It will be no cakewalk for the Packers either, despite their regular-season record.

The NFC's playoff teams are extremely strong this year, and Green Bay could be facing the likes of the San Francisco 49ers and their hard-hitting, turnover machine of a defense, the New Orleans Saints and their Packer-rivaling offense or the Detroit Lions, up-and-comers with serious talent on both sides of the ball.

There's a reason why two teams have met in the Super Bowl in two consecutive years only once—it's just so difficult to do it. Even with last year's Super Bowl teams both in the playoffs, and both favored to return for very different reasons, the odds are still quite slim.

Pittsburgh has more recent postseason—and Super Bowl—experience than any of the other teams in the playoffs this year and the Packers have the most momentum.

However, with more than a month until the Super Bowl and a number of playoff games yet to be played, it's hard to say that a rematch is all that likely.

The Packers may return, the Steelers may return, but there are 10 other teams working hard so that doesn't happen. I'd say there's just a 30 percent chance the teams meet in the Super Bowl again this year.