The Cincinnati Bengals will visit the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC championship on Sunday, January 30 at 3 p.m. ET.
That bit of housekeeping went final on Sunday night as the Kansas City Chiefs defended Arrowhead Stadium and escaped with a 42-36 victory over the Buffalo Bills in an instant classic that went to overtime.
Those Bengals had upended the Chiefs in early January so a rematch would have been interesting. Perhaps a game against the Bills would have been even more of an exciting unknown for onlookers since we’ve yet to see Joe Burrow vs. Josh Allen.
In the end, it’s Burrow vs. Patrick Mahomes for the second time. Mahomes had predicted the Bengals and Chiefs would see each other again, too.
The Bengals, of course, are through to the conference title game for the first time since ’88 thanks to upending the Las Vegas Raiders in the wild card round and the Tennessee Titans on the road in last Saturday’s divisional round.
