The New England Patriots are going back to the Super Bowl after downing the Denver Broncos in the AFC championship game. Here's how it happened.

A third-quarter field goal from Andy Borregales proved to be the difference as the Patriots earned a hard-fought, 10-7 victory on the road.

It's a pair of heavyweight battles with the highest of stakes. And just as they have all season long, Bleacher Report NFL analysts Gary Davenport , Kris Knox , Maurice Moton and Brent Sobleski have the biggest takeaways, winners and losers from the AFC and NFC Championship Games.

The Super Bowl 60 matchup is set, with both the Patriots and Seahawks prevailing Sunday. But who were the biggest winners and losers of the day?

The Denver Broncos were already at a serious disadvantage heading into their AFC Championship game against the New England Patriots. Not having their starting quarterback, Bo Nix, going into their biggest game of the season to date was going

DENVER — The Patriots are going to the Super Bowl. For the better part of the 2000s, that news would have been met with a yawn and the question, “So, what else is new?’’ Those were the Tom Brady-Bill Belichick Patriots that went to nine Super Bowls and won six of them,

Sunday's AFC Championship Game between the New England Patriots and Denver Broncos started with sunshine before the snow rolled around and changed the outlook at Mile High Stadium.

Both the New England Patriots and Denver Broncos felt the effects of Mother Nature during the AFC championship game on Jan. 25.

As offense became laughable amid a second-half snowstorm, the Broncos’ early fourth-down decision became magnified and cost them a trip to the Super Bowl.

The Patriots are going to the Super Bowl after outlasting the Broncos in a defensive battle in the AFC Championship Game.

CBS had a good idea on Sunday for its broadcast of snowy conditions in the AFC championship. But the network quickly and wisely abandoned it as the execution caused more problems then it solved.