The AFC North champion Bengals - the conference's No. 4 seed - will host the Las Vegas Raiders in the Wild Card Round at Paul Brown Stadium on Saturday at 4:30 p.m. Eastern on NBC in Cincinnati's first NFL playoff game since the 2015 postseason loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The Bengals will be looking to end the longest playoff-win drought of any National Football League team. They have lost eight consecutive playoff games - including a 1991 loss to the Raiders in Los Angeles to start that streak - and last won a postseason game on Jan. 6, 1991 against the Houston Oilers.
The Bengals also lost to the Oakland Raiders in the 1975 playoffs.
The Raiders defeated the Los Angeles Chargers in overtime on Sunday night to earn the No. 5 seed in the AFC playoffs.
The Bengals-Raiders game will be a rematch of the Week 11 game between the two teams in Las Vegas, won 32-13 by the Bengals.
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The Bengals' loss Sunday to the Cleveland Browns dropped them to 10-7 this season.
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