You’ve waited a long time to find out who’s playing on Sunday Night. Here are the NFL games that’ll be part of Sunday Night Football this upcoming season.
Outside of the matchup featuring your favorite team, the NFL game we look forward to the most each week is the one taking place in primetime on NBC. Yes, Sunday Night Football has eclipsed Monday Night Football in terms of national relevance over the last decade-plus. With Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth in the booth, it’s about as good as it gets from an viewing standpoint.
To play on Sunday Night Football is something every NFL fanbase should be fired up over. Everybody and their brother is watching your team take on someone else pretty good in a standalone game. Some of the best moments we’ve seen in primetime of late have been a part of this telecast.
So who’s playing on Sunday Night Football this year? Here are the 16 games taking place this year.
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Week 1 should be a spectacle, as the most popular team in America will face the one with the coolest new stadium. The Dallas Cowboys will take on the Los Angeles Rams at brand-new SoFi Stadium in Inglewood. It’ll be mostly Cowboys fans in attendance, but it’ll be a great welcome to the NFL for one of the future homes of Super Bowls.
Frankly, there are no bad games on the slate this year. While only 18 of the 32 teams play on Sunday night, four franchises play in this game three times this fall: Dallas, the Green Bay Packers, the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers. 10 teams will play on Sunday Night Football more than once, including the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Having Tom Brady aboard makes the Buccaneers relevant for the first time in years. His new team will take on Drew Brees‘ New Orleans Saints in Tampa on Week 9. The Buccaneers also have a date with former head coach Jon Gruden’s Las Vegas Raiders in Week 7 at brand-new Allegiant Stadium in Sin City.
While they will get a 17th game in the final week of the season based on how the regular season shakes out, the final game on Sunday night we know about will be the one between Mike Vrabel‘s Tennessee Titans and former offensive coordinator Matt LaFleur’s Green Bay Packers in Lambeau. Though games can be flexed in and out of Sunday Night Football, they’ve got a good slate here.