RENTON — Somehow, though the teams are in different divisions and a country apart, the Seahawks always seem to find themselves facing the Carolina Panthers at a key time of the season.
Through some oddities of NFL scheduling, the two teams have played seven times in the regular season since 2010 and twice more in the playoffs.
Some of the regular-season games have been among the more meaningful wins in recent team history — the comeback win to open the 2013 season and set the tone for the march to the Super Bowl title (as well as proving critical later in securing homefield advantage in the playoffs that year); the 2014 win the week after the Percy Harvin trade that kicked off a stretch of nine wins in 10 games to propel another Super Bowl run; and last season’s comeback when Seattle was just 5-5.