When Does the 2020 NFL Season Start?
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The National Football League (NFL) regular season begins on Thursday, September 10, 2020.
Introduction
The National Football League (NFL) regular season typically begins in September and ends in December. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the start of the 2020 season has been pushed back to September 10th. The NFL Draft will also be pushed back, but no official date has been announced yet.
As of right now, it is still unclear if fans will be allowed in stadiums during the 2020 season. The NFL is reportedly considering various options, such as playing games in empty stadiums or allowing a limited number of fans. However, no decisions have been made yet and it is still too early to say what the 2020 season will look like.
Regardless of what happens with the pandemic, one thing is for sure: the 2020 NFL season will be unlike any other in history.
What Happened Last Season?
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 North American professional sports leagues, the highest professional level of American football in the world.
The 2019 NFL season was the 100th season of the National Football League (NFL). The season began on September 5, 2019 with the NFL Kickoff Game between the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears, and ended with Super Bowl LIV, the league’s championship game, on February 2, 2020 at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida.
Who’s in the Playoffs?
As the regular season comes to a close, the final weeks are crucial for teams vying for a spot in the playoffs.
The NFL playoffs are a tournament held after the end of the National Football League (NFL)’s regular season to determine which teams will compete for the NFL Championship. The tournament brackets are made up of six teams from each of the league’s two conferences: the American Football Conference (AFC) and National Football Conference (NFC). A team’s position in the standings is used to determine its playoff seeding.
In the AFC, the four division winners and two wild-card teams (the two best teams among all those that did not win their division) qualify for the playoffs. In the NFC, the four division winners and two wild-card teams qualify for the playoffs. The NFL does not use a fixed bracket playoff system, and there are no re-seeds. The four divisional playoff games are held on Saturday and Sunday in January, immediately following the Wild Card weekend. The two conference championship games are then held on Sunday, January 22, or if January 22 is a Saturday, then on Saturday, January 21. The game sites rotate each year between AFC home sites and NFC home sites; this schedule will continue through 2022 before reverting back to pre-2013 when NFC home sites had exclusive hosting rights to even years (homefield advantage in Super Bowls always goes to whichever conference has more playoff participants).
The current system seeds teams based on won-lost-tied record without regard to whether a team played more or fewer games than others in its conference or faced easier or tougher opponents within its own division or conference. As such, it can be unfair to compare records from different seasons because they may not have faced exactly equivalent schedules of opponents
Who’s Playing Who?
The 2020 NFL regular season is kicking off on Thursday, September 10th with a game between the Houston Texans and the Kansas City Chiefs. The full schedule has not yet been released, but we do know which teams will be playing each other in the opening weekend.
Here are the match-ups for the first week of NFL action:
-Houston Texans vs. Kansas City Chiefs
-Atlanta Falcons vs. Seattle Seahawks
-Minnesota Vikings vs. Green Bay Packers
-Buffalo Bills vs. New York Jets
-Washington Redskins vs. Philadelphia Eagles
-Tennessee Titans vs. Denver Broncos
-Cleveland Browns vs Baltimore Ravens
How to Watch
The NFL regular season is set to begin on Thursday, September 10th, 2020.
Assuming there are no major schedule changes due to the coronavirus pandemic, all NFL games will be broadcast on one of the following networks: CBS, ESPN, FOX, or NBC.
The NFL Network will also broadcast a limited number of games throughout the season.
If you’re looking to watch NFL games online, you can do so through the website or app of each individual network, as well as through the NFL’s own app and website.
In order to watch NFL games through the league’s own app or website, you’ll need to sign up for NFL Game Pass, which costs $99.99 for the season. With a Game Pass subscription, you’ll be able to watch every game live or on-demand, as well as access a number of other features and perks.
You can also stream NFL games through a number of different live TV streaming services, including AT&T TV Now (formerly DirecTV Now), fuboTV, Hulu + Live TV, Sling TV, and YouTube TV. All of these services offer free trials, so if you’re looking to watch a specific game or two without committing to a full subscription, this may be the way to go.
Conclusion
The 2020 NFL season is set to begin on Thursday, September 10th. The regular season will conclude on Sunday, January 3rd, 2021. The playoffs are scheduled to begin on Saturday, January 9th and the Super Bowl is set for Sunday, February 7th.
