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Seattles win over New England on Sunday night was billed as both a Super Bowl rematch and a possible Super Bowl preview, and for once, the latter phrase was not hyperbole. Both teams certainly looked like they were ready to play deep into January, and in the end they were separated by only a goal-line stand.How likely is it that well see these two teams again in Houston for Super Bowl LI? As part of our playoff odds report each week, Football Outsiders also tracks the odds of every Super Bowl rematch. Seattle-New England pops up in 13.7 percent of this weeks simulations. Heres a look at the other rematches that have better than 100-to-1 odds at this point.Philadelphia-New England (XXXIX): 4.6% Dallas-Denver (XII): 2.6% Seattle-Denver (XLVIII): 2.2% Dallas-Miami (VI): 1.8% Philadelphia-Oakland (XV): 1.5% New York Giants-New England (XLII/XLVI): 1.5% Atlanta-Denver (XXXIII): 1.2%However, the most likely Super Bowl matchup right now would not be a rematch, even though it would be the record-breaking ninth Super Bowl for each franchise. Dallas and New England meet in Super Bowl LI in 14.9 percent of this weeks simulations.In other news, this is the first week that we have two teams with a big fat zero for playoff odds. Although Cleveland and San Francisco are not technically out of the race, neither team makes the postseason in any of our 50,000 simulations this week.Each week from now until the end of the regular season, well be taking a look at the playoff odds for all 32 teams in the NFL. For a full explanation on how we calculate each teams playoff odds, see the bottom of the article.AFC PLAYOFF PREDICTIONSFAVORITES1. New England Patriots (7-2)Odds of making playoffs: 97.3 percentThe loss to Seattle cut the Patriots odds of getting the AFCs No. 1 seed, but they still earn it in 54.2 percent of our simulations. Thats better than even odds despite the presence of three other seven-win teams in the AFC. Why are the Patriots such a heavy favorite? Not only are they the best AFC team by our DVOA ratings, but they also have one of the five easiest remaining schedules in the league. Meanwhile, the three seven-win AFC West teams will have to all play a round-robin with one another, not to mention the still-frisky Chargers. The Raiders, Chiefs and Broncos will likely have to run the table on the rest of their divisional games if they want to challenge the Patriots for seeding. 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HELSINKI, Finland -- Defending champion Russia was upset 2-1 by France, which shocked a team dominated by NHL and KHL players at hockey worlds on Thursday. Russia lost to a group of mainly French league players, who ended its 13-match winning streak at the world championship. "Its so big for French hockey, its hard to describe," France coach Dave Henderson said. France wasnt good enough to play Russia or the Soviet Union until 1992. It had lost all six previous games, the last 7-2 in 2009. All the goals on Thursday were scored in the middle period. Alexander Perezhogin gave Russia the lead at 6:57, shortly after teammate Aleksandr Radulov missed a penalty shot. France forward Damien Fleury evened the score at 9:52 with a slap shot. Antoine Roussel, Frances lone NHL player, scored the winner at 16:48 when he broke in from the left and backhanded through Vasili Koshechkins legs. Both teams fielded their third-string goalkeepers. Frances Florian Hardy fiinished with 28 saves, and Koshechkin 17.dddddddddddd "It was my first start, an unbelievably good result for us," Hardy said. "I dont know what to say, Im so happy. When I watched the clock with five minutes to play, I thought that this is for real, that it is possible to win. "All the team played an unbelievable game defensively. When the Russian player took the penalty shot and I stopped it, I just followed the puck and that was it." Frances second win in four games gives it a good chance of staying in the premier group at the worlds and an outside chance of making the quarterfinals with a top-four finish in its group. It still has to play the United States, Latvia and Germany. In Stockholm, the Czech Republic beat Denmark 2-1 after a shootout, with Zbynek Irgl scoring on his teams fifth and sixth shots. Zbynek Michalek scored in the last period for the Czechs and Morten Poulsen tied the game with four minutes to go. ' ' '