How Many Games Does An NFL Team Play?
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How Many Games Does An NFL Team Play?
The answer may surprise you.
NFL teams play a total of 16 regular season games. However, they may also play up to 4 preseason games and 3 postseason games, for a total of 23 games.
How Many Games are in an NFL Season?
In an NFL season, each team plays 16 games. This includes a four-game preseason and a four-game regular season. NFL teams also have a bye week, which is a week where they do not play a game. The bye week is usually scheduled in the middle of the season.
Pre-Season
Pre-season games are not counted towards a team’s regular season record.
Regular Season
The NFL regular season typically begins the weekend after Labor Day in early September and ends in late December or early January. Each team plays 16 games during the regular season, which is split evenly between home and away contests.
Post-Season
The NFL season generally runs from early September to late December, with each team playing 16 games and having one bye week. The schedule is carefully orchestrated to ensure that each team plays every other team at least once during the regular season, but crossover matchups between division rivals happen frequently.
The post-season starts in early January with the Wild Card Round, where the four lowest-seeded division winners and the two wild card teams (the two best non-division winners) play each other. The winners of those four games advance to the Divisional Round, where they play the top two seeds in each conference. The winners of those games then advance to the Conference Championships, with the NFC Championship Game and AFC Championship Game taking place on the first Sunday in February.
Finally, the two conference champions face off in the Super Bowl on the Sunday following Valentine’s Day.
How Many Games Does Each Team Play?
There are a total of 256 games in an NFL season. Each team plays 16 games. That means that there are 16 weeks in an NFL season.
Pre-Season
All teams play 4 preseason games. There aren’t any exhibition games during the NFL regular season or playoffs.
Regular Season
During the regular season, each team plays 16 games. These games are spread out over a 17-week period, with each team playing one game per week. There are bye weeks built into the schedule, which means that each team has a week off during the season.
Post-Season
Including the regular season and playoffs, each NFL team can play a maximum of 19 games.
