The tournament will be held from November 7-10, 2012 with the higher seed hosting each match.

The better seed will host each first round match.

The third seed hosted the fourth seed in the first round.

The better seed hosted each first round match.

The first two rounds are played on campus sites with the highest seed usually hosting the four-team regional.

In the first season, the finals was a best-of-five series, with the higher seed hosting the first two and the fifth (if necessary) games.

Each round consisted of two legs, the lower seeded team hosting the first leg, and the higher seed hosting the second.

The one seed hosting the four seed, and the two seed hosting the three seed.

Since the 1975-76 season, the site of the AFC Championship has been based on playoff seeding, with the highest surviving seed hosting.

A wild card team can only host the game if both participants are wild cards, in which case the fifth seed would host the sixth seed.