So long, 256 games. Hello, 272.
The NFL's expanded regular-season schedule is now a reality, with the league on Wednesday announcing a slate that includes 17 games for all 32 teams.
The defending Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers will open the season on Sept. 9 by hosting the Dallas Cowboys. The Buccaneers will have a number of other prime-time games, but their marquee matchup comes with an Oct. 3 clash against the New England Patriots. That contest will serve as a reunion between Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady and Patriots coach Bill Belichick, who combined to win six Super Bowls during their 20-year run together in New England before Brady left for Tampa last offseason.
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The NFL will also be resuming its International Series after holding all games stateside last season amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Atlanta Falcons will play the New York Jets on Oct. 10, and the Jacksonville Jaguars will face off against the Miami Dolphins on Oct. 17. Both games will be played at London's Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
The league will once again have three games on Thanksgiving: Chicago Bears at Detroit Lions, Las Vegas Raiders at Cowboys and Buffalo Bills at New Orleans Saints. Christmas will also feature two games: the Cleveland Browns at Green Bay Packers and Indianapolis Colts at Arizona Cardinals.
The extra week of the regular season will be tacked onto the end of the slate, leaving Jan. 9 as the wrap-up date. Specific dates - two Week 18 games will be played on Saturday - and times will be determined after the penultimate week of games.
The full schedule below (all times ET):
WEEK 1
Thursday, Sept. 9
Dallas at Tampa Bay, 8:20 p.m. (NBC)
Sunday, Sept. 12
Philadelphia at Atlanta, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Pittsburgh at Buffalo, 1 p.m. (CBS)
New York at Carolina, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Minnesota at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. (FOX)
San Francisco at Detroit, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Jacksonville at Houston, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Seattle at Indianapolis, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Arizona at Tennessee, 1 p.m. (CBS)
L.A. Chargers at Washington, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Cleveland at Kansas City, 4:25 p.m. (CBS)
Miami at New England, 4:25 p.m. (CBS)
Green Bay at New Orleans, 4:25 p.m. (FOX)
Denver at N.Y. Giants, 4:25 p.m. (FOX)
Chicago at L.A. Rams, 8:20 p.m. (NBC)
Monday, Sept. 13
Baltimore at Las Vegas, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN/ABC)
WEEK 2
Thursday, Sept. 16
N.Y. Giants at Washington, 8:20 p.m. (NFLN)
Sunday, Sept. 19
New Orleans at Carolina, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Cincinnati at Chicago, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Houston at Cleveland, 1 p.m. (CBS)
L.A. Rams at Indianapolis, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Denver at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Buffalo at Miami, 1 p.m. (FOX)
New England at New York, 1 p.m. (CBS)
San Francisco at Philadelphia, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Las Vegas at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Minnesota at Arizona, 4:05 p.m. (FOX)
Atlanta at Tampa Bay, 4:05 p.m. (FOX)
Dallas at L.A. Chargers, 4:25 p.m. (CBS)
Tennessee at Seattle, 4:25 p.m. (CBS)
Kansas City at Baltimore, 8:20 p.m. (NBC)
Monday, Sept. 20
Detroit at Green Bay, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN)
WEEK 3
Thursday, Sept. 23
Carolina at Houston, 8:20 p.m. (NFLN)
Sunday, Sept. 26
Washington at Buffalo, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Chicago at Cleveland, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Baltimore at Detroit, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Arizona at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. (FOX)
L.A. Chargers at Kansas City, 1 p.m. (CBS)
New Orleans at New England, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Atlanta at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Indianapolis at Tennessee, 1 p.m. (CBS)
New York at Denver, 4:05 p.m. (CBS)
Miami at Las Vegas, 4:05 p.m. (CBS)
Tampa Bay at L.A. Rams, 4:25 p.m. (FOX)
Seattle at Minnesota, 4:25 p.m. (FOX)
Green Bay at San Francisco, 8:20 p.m. (NBC)
Monday, Sept. 27
Philadelphia at Dallas, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN)
WEEK 4
Thursday, Sept. 30
Jacksonville at Cincinnati, 8:20 p.m. (NFLN)
Sunday, Oct. 3
Washington at Atlanta, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Houston at Buffalo, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Detroit at Chicago, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Carolina at Dallas, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Indianapolis at Miami, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Cleveland at Minnesota, 1 p.m. (CBS)
N.Y. Giants at New Orleans, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Tennessee at New York, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Kansas City at Philadelphia, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Arizona at L.A. Rams, 4:05 p.m. (FOX)
Seattle at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m. (FOX)
Baltimore at Denver, 4:25 p.m. (CBS)
Pittsburgh at Green Bay, 4:25 p.m. (CBS)
Tampa Bay at New England, 8:20 p.m. (NBC)
Monday, Oct. 4
Las Vegas at L.A. Chargers, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN)
WEEK 5
Thursday, Oct. 7
L.A. Rams at Seattle, 8:20 p.m. (FOX/NFLN/AMAZON**)
Sunday, Oct. 10
New York vs. Atlanta (London), 9:30 a.m. (NFLN)
Philadelphia at Carolina, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Green Bay at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. (FOX)
New England at Houston, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Tennessee at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Detroit at Minnesota, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Denver at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Miami at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m. (CBS)
New Orleans at Washington, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Cleveland at L.A. Chargers, 4:5 p.m. (CBS)
Chicago at Las Vegas, 4:05 p.m. (CBS)
San Francisco at Arizona, 4:25 p.m. (FOX)
N.Y. Giants at Dallas, 4:25 p.m. (FOX)
Buffalo at Kansas City, 8:20 p.m. (NBC)*
Monday, Oct. 11
Indianapolis at Baltimore, 8:15 p.m. ESPN
WEEK 6
Thursday, Oct. 14
Tampa Bay at Philadelphia, 8:20 p.m. (FOX/NFLN/AMAZON**)
Sunday, Oct. 17
Miami vs. Jacksonville (London), 9:30 a.m. (CBS)
L.A. Chargers at Baltimore, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Minnesota at Carolina, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Green Bay at Chicago, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Cincinnati at Detroit, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Houston at Indianapolis, 1 p.m. (CBS)
L.A. Rams at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Kansas City at Washington, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Arizona at Cleveland, 4:05 p.m. (FOX)
Las Vegas at Denver, 4:25 p.m. (CBS)
Dallas at New England, 4:25 p.m. (CBS)
Seattle at Pittsburgh, 8:20 p.m. (NBC*)
Monday, Oct. 18
Buffalo at Tennessee, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN)
WEEK 7
Thursday, Oct. 21
Denver at Cleveland, 8:20 p.m. (FOX/NFLN/AMAZON**)
Sunday, Oct. 24
Cincinnati at Baltimore, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Washington at Green Bay, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Atlanta at Miami, 1 p.m. (FOX)
New York at New England, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Carolina at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Kansas City at Tennessee, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Detroit at L.A. Rams, 4:05 p.m. (FOX)
Philadelphia at Las Vegas, 4:05 p.m. (FOX)
Houston at Arizona, 4:25 p.m. (CBS)
Chicago at Tampa Bay, 4:25 p.m. (CBS)
Indianapolis at San Francisco, 8:20 p.m. (NBC*)
Monday, Oct. 25
New Orleans at Seattle, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN)
WEEK 8
Thursday, Oct. 28
Green Bay at Arizona, 8:20 p.m. (FOX/NFLN/AMAZON**)
Sunday, Oct. 31
Carolina at Atlanta, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Miami at Buffalo, 1 p.m. (CBS)
San Francisco at Chicago, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Pittsburgh at Cleveland, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Philadelphia at Detroit, 1 p.m. (FOX)
L.A. Rams at Houston, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Tennessee at Indianapolis, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Cincinnati at New York, 1 p.m. (CBS)
New England at L.A. Chargers, 4:5 p.m. (CBS)
Jacksonville at Seattle, 4:05 p.m. (CBS)
Washington at Denver, 4:25 p.m. (FOX)
Tampa Bay at New Orleans, 4:25 p.m. (FOX)
Dallas at Minnesota, 8:20 p.m. (NBC*)
Monday, Nov. 1
N.Y. Giants at Kansas City, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN)
WEEK 9
Thursday, Nov. 4
New York at Indianapolis, 8:20 p.m. (FOX/NFLN/AMAZON**)
Sunday, Nov. 7
Minnesota at Baltimore, 1 p.m. (FOX)
New England at Carolina, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Cleveland at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Denver at Dallas, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Buffalo at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Houston at Miami, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Atlanta at New Orleans, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Las Vegas at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m. (CBS)
L.A. Chargers at Philadelphia, 4:5 p.m. (CBS)
Green Bay at Kansas City, 4:25 p.m. (FOX)
Arizona at San Francisco, 4:25 p.m. (FOX)
Tennessee at L.A. Rams, 8:20 p.m. (NBC*)
Monday, Nov. 8
Chicago at Pittsburgh, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN)
WEEK 10
Thursday, Nov. 11
Baltimore at Miami, 8:20 p.m. (FOX/NFLN/AMAZON**)
Sunday, Nov. 14
Atlanta at Dallas, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Jacksonville at Indianapolis, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Cleveland at New England, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Buffalo at New York, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Detroit at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m. (FOX)
New Orleans at Tennessee, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Tampa Bay at Washington, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Carolina at Arizona, 4:05 p.m. (FOX)
Minnesota at L.A. Chargers, 4:05 p.m. (FOX)
Philadelphia at Denver, 4:25 p.m. (CBS)
Seattle at Green Bay, 4:25 p.m. (CBS)
Kansas City at Las Vegas, 8:20 p.m. (NBC*)
Monday, Nov. 15
L.A. Rams at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN)
WEEK 11
Thursday, Nov. 18
New England at Atlanta, 8:20 p.m. (FOX/NFLN/AMAZON**)
Sunday, Nov. 21
Indianapolis at Buffalo, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Washington at Carolina, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Baltimore at Chicago, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Detroit at Cleveland, 1 p.m. (FOX)
San Francisco at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Green Bay at Minnesota, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Miami at New York, 1 p.m. (CBS)
New Orleans at Philadelphia, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Houston at Tennessee, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Cincinnati at Las Vegas, 4:05 p.m. (CBS)
Dallas at Kansas City, 4:25 p.m. (FOX)
Arizona at Seattle, 4:25 p.m. (FOX)
Pittsburgh at L.A. Chargers, 8:20 p.m. (NBC*)
Monday, Nov. 22
N.Y. Giants at Tampa Bay, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN)
WEEK 12
Thursday, Nov. 25
Chicago at Detroit (Thanksgiving) 12:30 p.m. (FOX)
Las Vegas at Dallas (Thanksgiving), 4:30 p.m. (CBS)
Buffalo at New Orleans (Thanksgiving), 8:20 p.m. (NBC)
Sunday, Nov. 28
Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. (CBS)
New York at Houston, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Tampa Bay at Indianapolis, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Atlanta at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Carolina at Miami, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Tennessee at New England, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m. (FOX)
L.A. Chargers at Denver, 4:05 p.m. (CBS)
L.A. Rams at Green Bay, 4:25 p.m. (FOX)
Minnesota at San Francisco, 4:25 p.m. (FOX)
Cleveland at Baltimore, 8:20 p.m. (NBC*)
Monday, Nov. 29
Seattle at Washington, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN)
WEEK 13
Thursday, Dec. 2
Dallas at New Orleans, 8:20 p.m. (FOX/NFLN/AMAZON**)
Sunday, Dec. 5
Tampa Bay at Atlanta, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Arizona at Chicago, 1 p.m. (FOX)
L.A. Chargers at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Minnesota at Detroit, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Indianapolis at Houston, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Denver at Kansas City, 1 p.m. (CBS)
N.Y. Giants at Miami, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Philadelphia at New York, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Washington at Las Vegas, 4:5 p.m. (FOX)
Jacksonville at L.A. Rams, 4:25 p.m. (CBS)
Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 4:25 p.m. (CBS)
San Francisco at Seattle, 8:20 p.m. (NBC*)
Monday, Dec. 6
New England at Buffalo, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN)
WEEK 14
Thursday, Dec. 9
Pittsburgh at Minnesota, 8:20 p.m. (FOX/NFLN/AMAZON**)
Sunday, Dec. 12
Atlanta at Carolina, 1 p.m. (FOX)
San Francisco at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Baltimore at Cleveland, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Seattle at Houston, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Las Vegas at Kansas City, 1 p.m. (CBS)
New Orleans at New York, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Jacksonville at Tennessee, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Dallas at Washington, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Detroit at Denver, 4:05 p.m. (FOX)
N.Y. Giants at L.A. Chargers, 4:5 p.m. (FOX)
Buffalo at Tampa Bay, 4:25 p.m. (CBS)
Chicago at Green Bay, 8:20 p.m. (NBC*)
Monday, Dec. 13
L.A. Rams at Arizona, 8:15 p.m. ESPN
WEEK 15
Thursday, Dec. 16
Kansas City at L.A. Chargers, 8:20 p.m. (FOX/NFLN/AMAZON**)
Saturday, Dec. 18
TBD, 4:30 p.m. (NFLN)
TBD, 8:15 p.m. (NFLN)
Saturday Pool Date/Time/Network TBD
Carolina at Buffalo
Las Vegas at Cleveland
New England at Indianapolis
New York at Miami
Washington at Philadelphia
Sunday, Dec. 19
Green Bay at Baltimore, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Arizona at Detroit, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Houston at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Dallas at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Tennessee at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Cincinnati at Denver, 4:05 p.m. (CBS)
Atlanta at San Francisco, 4:5 p.m. (CBS)
Seattle at L.A. Rams, 4:25 p.m. (FOX)
New Orleans at Tampa Bay, 8:20 p.m. (NBC*)
Monday, Dec. 20
Minnesota at Chicago, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN)
WEEK 16
Thursday, Dec. 23
San Francisco at Tennessee, 8:20 p.m. (NFLN)
Saturday, Dec. 25
Cleveland at Green Bay, 4:30 p.m. (FOX/NFLN/AMAZON**)
Indianapolis at Arizona, 8:15 p.m. (NFLN)
Sunday, Dec. 26
Detroit at Atlanta, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Tampa Bay at Carolina, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Baltimore at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. (CBS)
L.A. Chargers at Houston, 1 p.m. (CBS)
L.A. Rams at Minnesota, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Buffalo at New England, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Jacksonville at New York, 1 p.m. (CBS)
N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Chicago at Seattle, 4:5 p.m. (FOX)
Pittsburgh at Kansas City, 4:25 p.m. (CBS)
Denver at Las Vegas, 4:25 p.m. (CBS)
Washington at Dallas, 8:20 p.m. (NBC*)
Monday, Dec. 27
Miami at New Orleans, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN)
WEEK 17
Sunday, Jan. 2
Atlanta at Buffalo, 1 p.m. (FOX)
N.Y. Giants at Chicago, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Kansas City at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Arizona at Dallas, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Las Vegas at Indianapolis, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Jacksonville at New England, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Carolina at New Orleans, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Tampa Bay at New York, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Miami at Tennessee, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Philadelphia at Washington, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Denver at L.A. Chargers, 4:05 p.m. (CBS)
Houston at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m. (CBS)
L.A. Rams at Baltimore, 4:25 p.m. (FOX)
Detroit at Seattle, 4:25 p.m. (FOX)
Minnesota at Green Bay, 8:20 p.m. (NBC*)
Monday, Jan. 3
Cleveland at Pittsburgh, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN)
WEEK 18
Saturday, Jan. 8
TBD, 4:30 p.m. (ESPN/ABC)
TBD, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN/ABC)
Sunday, Jan. 9
New Orleans at Atlanta, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Pittsburgh at Baltimore, 1 p.m. (CBS)
New York at Buffalo, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Cincinnati at Cleveland, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Green Bay at Detroit, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Tennessee at Houston, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Indianapolis at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. (CBS)
New England at Miami, 1 p.m. (CBS)
Chicago at Minnesota, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Washington at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Dallas at Philadelphia, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Carolina at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m. (FOX)
Seattle at Arizona, 4:25 p.m. (FOX)
Kansas City at Denver, 4:25 p.m. (CBS)
San Francisco at L.A. Rams, 4:25 p.m. (FOX)
L.A. Chargers at Las Vegas, 4:25 p.m. (CBS)
TBD, 8:20 p.m. (NBC*)
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