How Many Weeks Are In The NFL Season 2021?
The 2021 NFL season will be the 102nd season of the National Football League. How many weeks are in the NFL season?
Introduction
The NFL Season 2021 will be the 102nd regular season of the National Football League (NFL). It is scheduled to begin on September 9, 2021 with the NFL Kickoff Game, and will conclude with Super Bowl LVI on February 6, 2022 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California.
The Length of the NFL Season
The NFL regular season is set to begin on Thursday, September 9th and end on Sunday, January 3rd, 2021. The NFL season is 17 weeks long, with each team playing 16 games and having one bye week. The bye week is a week where a team does not play and is able to rest and prepare for their next opponent.
Pre-Season
Pre-season is when NFL teams play exhibition games. These exhibition games don’t really count, but they give coaches and fans a sense of how the team may do in the regular season. For example, if a team does really well in the pre-season, their fans may get optimistic about how the team will do in the regular season. Usually, NFL pre-season games start in early August and end in late August or early September.
Regular Season
The 2021 NFL regular season will begin on Sunday, September 12th and end on Sunday, January 9th. The NFL Playoffs will then begin on Saturday, January 15th and conclude with Super Bowl LVI on Sunday, February 6th at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California.
Post-Season
The NFL regular season typically runs for 17 weeks, from early September to late December. Each team plays 16 games over that span, with one bye week built in (usually occurring in weeks five or six). This means that, on average, each team plays about 13 games before the playoffs begin.
The NFL playoff format is a single-elimination tournament consisting of six teams: four division winners and two wild-card teams. The four division winners are seeded one through four based on their win-loss records, with the top seed receiving a bye in the first round. The wild-card teams are seeded five and six.
In the first round of the playoffs, the third seed hosts the sixth seed, and the fourth seed hosts the fifth seed. The winners of those games then advance to the divisional round, where they play the top seed and second seed, respectively. The divisional round winners advance to the conference championships, with the winners of those games meeting in the Super Bowl.
The NFL season typically lasts about 21 weeks, from early September to early February.
Conclusion
After doing some research, we have come to the conclusion that the NFL season for 2021 will most likely have 17 weeks.
