The AFC championship will mark the third time the teams have faced off with a Super Bowl appearance on the line.

Drake Maye led the Patriots — aided by five C.J. Stroud interceptions — to a 28-16 win over the Texans to earn a date in Denver. Oddsmakers are making the Broncos historic home underdogs. Denver opened as a 4.

The Broncos and their newly-named starting quarterback, Jarrett Stidham, will face the New England Patriots in the AFC Championship game next weekend. Denver will host its first AFC championship game in a decade.

A family in a tight-knit Fort Collins neighborhood sought to repay their community’s unofficial “handyman” by inviting him along to the nail-biter Denver Broncos playoff game Saturday.

The Broncos will host the New England Patriots in Sunday’s AFC Championship in a battle of the conference’s No. 1 and No. 2 seeds. The game will be played at 1 p.m. Mountain Time on CBS.

The city of Denver and Denver Broncos players are already rallying around backup quarterback Jarrett Stidham after the announcement that Bo Nix will be out for the rest of the postseason with a broken ankle. Safety P.J. Locke tweeted out his support for Stidham, hearkening back to 2017 Super Bowl MVP Nick Foles.

NFL rules analyst Walt Anderson explained that league wants "to move the game along" and not have prolonged stoppages in crucial moments.