What Week Is This For the NFL?
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The NFL season is well underway and we’re already into Week 6! Keep up with all the latest news and highlights from around the league with our weekly roundup.
Introduction
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC). The NFL is one of the four major professional sports leagues in North America, and the highest professional level of American football in the world.
What week is this for the NFL?
The week of December 3, 2020 is the NFL’s thirteenth week. This is the week that will see the final regular season games being played. The week will also see the start of the NFL playoffs.
Preseason
The National Football League (NFL) preseason is the period each year during which NFL teams play several not-for-the-record exhibition games before the regular season starts. Beginning with the featured Pro Football Hall of Fame game in early August, five weekends of exhibition games are currently played in the NFL preseason.
Regular season
The regular season of the National Football League (NFL) is the period during which professional American football teams play sixteen games out of a seventeen-week schedule. It begins on the weekend following Labor Day, and ends on New Year’s Eve. The regular season is critical to a team’s success because it determines both their playoff seeding and their position in the draft order.
Playoffs
The NFL playoffs are here, and we’re down to the final four teams vying for a spot in the Super Bowl.
In the AFC, the New England Patriots will take on the Jacksonville Jaguars, and in the NFC, the Minnesota Vikings will face off against the Philadelphia Eagles.
These two matchups will take place on Sunday, January 21st, with the AFC game kicking off at 3:05pm ET and the NFC game at 6:40pm ET.
The winners of these games will advance to Super Bowl LII, which will be played on Sunday, February 4th at 6:30pm ET.
Super Bowl
The Super Bowl is the biggest and most important game in the National Football League (NFL) every year. It is the championship game that determines the league’s annual champion. The game is held at a different locations each year, chosen several years in advance. The host city is selected based on a number of factors, including weather, stadium availability, and other events that may be going on in the city during that time.
Conclusion
The regular season began on Thursday, September 10th.
This means that, as of Sunday, September 27th, we are now in week 3 of the NFL regular season.
