When Does the Regular Season NFL Start?
Contents
The National Football League regular season typically begins on the Thursday night following the Labor Day holiday in early September.
When is the regular season NFL start date?
The National Football League regular season typically starts on the Thursday night following Labor Day and ends on the Sunday before New Year’s Day. The 2020 NFL regular season is scheduled to begin on September 10, 2020 and is scheduled to end on January 3, 2021.
How many weeks is the NFL regular season?
The NFL regular season is 17 weeks long.
What happens during the NFL regular season?
The National Football League regular season begins on the week following Labor Day in September and ends in December or early January. During the 17-week regular season, each team plays 16 games and has one bye. The length of the NFL regular season has increased over time, from 11 weeks in 1934 to its current length of 17 weeks.
The NFL playoffs are a single-elimination tournament held after the end of the regular season to determine the NFL champion. Six teams from each conference ( AFC and NFC) qualify for the playoffs based on their regular season records. The four division winners in each conference are seeded 1-4 based on their overall won-lost-tied record, and the two wild card teams are seeded 5-6. Wild card teams are then paired against the lower seeded division winners in the first round of the playoffs (the wild card round), while the top two seeds receive a bye.
In addition to determining the champions of each conference and therefore the Super Bowl participants (AFC vs. NFC), this playoff format also affects which teams will play each other during the regular season.
How do teams make the playoffs?
Most teams in the NFL make the playoffs by winning their division. In each conference, there are four divisions (North, East, South, West). Each division contains four teams. At the end of the regular season, the team with the best record in each division is declared a division winner and is seeded first in their conference’s playoff bracket. The three other division winners from each conference are also seeds 2-4 based on their records. Two additional teams from each conference (for a total of six) make the playoffs as wild card teams. These two teams are seeded 5 and 6 based on their records.
In order for a team to win their division, they must have a better record than all of the other teams in their division. For example, if a team in the NFC East has a 10-6 record, they will win their division over a team like the Dallas Cowboys who also have a 10-6 record but finished second in the NFC East because they did not have a better record than the division winner. The same goes for wild card teams. In order for a team to be a wild card team, they must have a better record than all of the other non-division winning teams in their conference.
What is the Super Bowl?
The Super Bowl is the biggest and most important American football game of the year. It is the annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL). The game is played between the winner of the AFC (American Football Conference) and the NFC (National Football Conference).
