After the Dallas Cowboys’ lost to the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday, their playoff odds dropped to around 1%, according to most postseason projections. That number sparked a natural question: If the Cowboys aren’t officially eliminated, what would actually need to happen for them to make the NFL Playoffs?
I did what I always do when I'm stumped — ask ChatGPT. This is the kind of problem AI is surprisingly good at solving. Because all predictions and opinions aside, playoff races are about conditional logic. Who has to win, who has to lose and how tiebreakers come into play. So I asked ChatGPT to map out the exact scenario keeping Dallas technically alive.
