21.   Hedican said he had been told prior to the season that if the Panthers were out of the playoff picture he could be moved.

22.   Heading into the final week of the regular National Football League season, the playoff picture has cleared up significantly.

23.   Houston went from a bench-warming draft-day disappointment to the catalyst that nearly vaulted Detroit back into the playoff picture.

24.   How important their fourth straight victory was going to be in pulling them back into the playoff picture.

25.   However, it would still take a miracle, if not more, to get the Dodgers into the playoff picture.

26.   If approved by the league, the trade bolsters Portland standing in the Western Conference playoff picture.

27.   If that is true, then that will definitely change the complexion of the playoff picture.

28.   In perhaps the strangest weekend of a season that is setting some sort of record for the bizarre, almost no progress was made in clearing the playoff picture.

29.   It is a plateau with great meaning in the Division I-AA playoff picture.

30.   It was their fifth win in the last seven games, but their second consecutive shaky effort after putting themselves back in the Western Conference playoff picture.