These match ups are pretty stellar. Next stop Super Bowl 49 at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona on Sunday, February 1st at 6:30 PM ET/5:30 PM CT on NBC.

Green Bay Packers (12-4, 4-4 on road) @ Seattle Seahawks (12-4, 7-1 @ home)

CenturyLink Field, Seattle (67,000)

3:05 PM ET/2:05 CT

FOX

Joe, Troy, EA

Refs: Tony Corrente crew

Weather: Showers 60%

Line: Seahawks by 7 1/2

I love this Packers team. ARodg, Jordy Nelson, Randall Cobb and Eddie Lacy are dynamite players. But this is a tall order for any team with this explosive 12th man crowd in Seattle that gives the Seahawks at least a field goal advantage going in. Can the Packers win at Seattle? They could, but with this stifling, lock down defense that the Seahawks employ and the way Russell Wilson just finds a way to make explosive plays and get his team in the end zone enough, I like the Seahawks to return to the Super Bowl. Their secondary with the awesome Richard Sherman and Kam Chancellor are the ultimate game changers. Seahawks advance, but in a good game.

Seattle 28, Green Bay 24

Indianapolis Colts (11-5, 5-3) @ New England Patriots (12-4, 7-1

home)

Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, Massachusetts (68,756)

6:40 PM ET/5:40 PM CT

CBS

Jim, Phil, Tracy

Refs: Walt Anderson crew

Weather: Rain 90%

Line: New England by 6.5

This rain could favor the Colts if it actually transpires. Never know with the 10 day. But this Colts defense can keep it close and Andrew Luck can certainly make plays with receiver T.Y. Hilton and tight end Coby Fleener among others. But Brady looks like he’s on a mission. Ray Lewis’s comment that Brady would never have achieved greatness if it wasn’t for the tuck rule in 2001 when Brady was sacked by the Raiders late in the AFC conference game at snow filled New England and the refs called it an incomplete pass rather than a fumble that would have sealed the game for the Raiders and they would have reached the Super Bowl and not Brady and the Patriots, is a crock. That wasn’t a good rule then and the Raiders got robbed–the rule was rescinded in 2012– but Brady would has achieved greatness regardless of that play. I may have picked the Ravens last week because I thought they could knock off the Patriots, they had a very good team,  but I won’t ever deny Tom Brady’s greatness. He’s a proven all time elite quarterback. Three Super Bowl victories and two more appearances proves his greatness. So while I think the Colts can make this a good game, I like the Patriots to move on to Glendale and face the Seahawks in Super Bowl XLIX . Should be a good game though, particularly if the weather conditions are questionable.

Patriots 27, Colts 24