How Long Is the NFL Football Season?
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The NFL season is seventeen weeks long, which includes a bye week for each team. The regular season starts the week after Labor Day and ends the week after Christmas.
The NFL Season
The regular season
The regular season of the National Football League (NFL) began on September 5, 2019, with the NFL Kickoff Game. The regular season will end on December 29, 2019. It will consist of 256 games, played over a seventeen-week schedule. Each of the league’s 32 teams plays a 16-game schedule, with one bye week for each team. The slate also features games on Monday Night Football, Thursday Night Football and Sunday Night Football.
The playoffs
The NFL playoffs are a single-elimination tournament held after the end of the regular season to determine the NFL champion. From 1933 to 1966, the NFL playoffs generally included three teams, with two teams receiving byes in the first round. In 1967, the league expanded to four teams, with two byes, and then further expanded in 1978 to include eight teams. Since 1990, the tournament has included twelve teams, with four byes. The team that wins the Super Bowl is crowned the NFL champion for that year.
How long does the NFL season last?
The NFL season typically lasts about 17 weeks, from September to December, with each team playing 16 games. The playoffs then begin in January, culminating with the Super Bowl in early February. So, the NFL season is about 20 weeks long in total.
The regular season
The regular season is seventeen weeks long, with each team playing sixteen games and having one bye week. The bye week is a scheduled break for each team during the regular season, where they do not play any games. The NFL season typically starts the first week of September and ends the first week of January, although the exact dates vary from year to year.
The NFL playoffs are held after the regular season ends, and typically involve the top six teams from each conference. The playoffs are single-elimination, meaning that once a team loses a game, they are out of the playoffs. The playoff bracket is set up so that the top seed from each conference plays the bottom seed from the other conference, and so on. The winners of each playoff game then advance to the next round until only two teams are left – these teams face off in the Super Bowl.
The playoffs
The NFL playoffs are a single-elimination tournament held after the end of the regular season to determine the NFL champion. From 1933 to 1966, the NFL championship game was held in a different city each year. Since 1967, it has been held in only four cities: New York, Miami, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. The playoffs consist of six teams from each conference: four division winners and two wild card teams. The two wild card teams play each other in the first round, while the division winners are given a bye and advance to the second round. The second round features matchups between the division winners from each conference. The winners of those games advance to the conference championship games, with the winners of those games meeting in the Super Bowl.
When does the NFL season start?
The NFL season typically starts in September and ends in December or early January. The regular season is 16 games long, with each team playing 16 games. The NFL playoffs are a single-elimination tournament consisting of six teams from each conference. The four divisional winners and two wild card teams from each conference compete in the playoffs. The playoffs culminate with the Super Bowl, the league’s championship game.
The regular season
The National Football League regular season typically begins on the weekend following the Labor Day holiday. For example, the 2016 season began on September 8, 2016.
Each team plays 16 games during the regular season. They are divided into two formatted schedules:
-An annual inter conference schedule that matches teams from NFC against AFC. This is done on a rotating three-year basis.
-An intraconference schedule that matches teams within each conference based on their standings from the previous season. This schedule is also done on a rotating three-year basis.
The NFL playoffs follow a tournament format. The six highest ranked teams from each conference—four division winners and two wild card teams—enter the playoff tournament. The wild card teams are seeded fifth and sixth, while the division winners are seeded first through fourth based on their overall won-lost-tied record, with the better record receiving the higher seed. As of 2014, home field advantage does not necessarily belong to the higher seed; it is now based on record instead, with division winners guaranteed to host at least one playoff game. The playoffs are bracketed by two rounds: Wild Card weekend and Divisional Playoffs weekend, followed by Conference Championships weekend and finally Super Bowl Sunday.
The playoffs
The NFL playoffs are a single-elimination tournament held after the end of the National Football League (NFL) regular season to determine the NFL champion. Twelve teams from the NFC and AFC qualify for the playoffs based on regular season records, and a tie-breaking procedure exists in the case of equal records. The tournament culminates in the Super Bowl, played between the champions of the NFC and AFC.
In the 2014–15 NFL playoffs, the New England Patriots defeated the Seattle Seahawks 28–24 in Super Bowl XLIX, winning their fourth championship.
