The Carolina Panthers are NFC South champions, a sentence that felt very improbable after yesterday's letdown. They fell short of beating the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, with one horrible playcall and disastrous refereeing hurting alongside a poor offensive performance in the rain.

Chase McLaughlin kicked three field goals and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers kept their chance to win the NFC South alive by beating the Carolina Panthers 16-14 on a rainy Saturday at Tampa.

Seattle finished the regular season with a seven-game winning streak, and it stopped San Francisco's six-game winning streak

The No. 12 North Carolina Tar Heels (13-1, 1-0 ACC) and SMU Mustangs (11-2, 0-0) meet Saturday at 2:15 p.m. ET from Moody Coliseum in Dallas, Texas (The CW Network).

A pair of Western Conference teams square off when the seventh-place Seattle Kraken (18-14-7) visit the 13th-place Calgary Flames (18-19-4) at Scotiabank Saddledome on Monday at 9:30 p.m. ET.

The Pistons will square off against the Cavaliers at 2:00 PM ET on Sunday at Rocket Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.