The final Sunday of the NFL regular season offers a virtual feast for football fans, with 28 of the league’s 32 teams in action and every game televised on the same day. The other four teams played on Saturday.
Most of today’s games carry plenty of meaning when it comes to playoff scenarios. Two playoff spots have yet to be decided, and three teams — the Denver Broncos, New England Patriots and Jacksonville Jaguars — all have a chance to take the No. 1 overall seed in the AFC. Two teams, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Carolina Panthers, face elimination — and neither is even playing today.
All in all, it’s a dream day for NFL fans. But as usual, not everyone will be able to watch every game. Here, below, are the regional listings for all 14 Sunday contests.
Sunday Night Football: The Only Nationwide Telecast
A select few games will air to large parts of the United States, but only one on Sunday will be televised nationwide.
That contest will, in effect, be a playoff game in its own right, as the Pittsburgh Steelers host their archrivals, the Baltimore Ravens, in what has turned out to be a win-or-go-home game.
The winner takes the AFC North title and the No. 4 seed in the playoffs. The loser will have to say, “Wait ’til next year!”
The Ravens-Steelers game airs on NBC Sunday Night Football, with kickoff scheduled for 8:20 p.m. ET on Sunday, January 4. But no other Sunday game will be broadcast to a fully nationwide audience. The announcers, as usual, will be Mike Tirico and Chris Collinsworth.
Early Time Slot Games
Six games will air simultaneously at 1 p.m. ET. Here they are, with networks and regions in which each game will air, along with announcer listings.
Indianapolis Colts at Houston Texans, CBS (streaming on Paramount+). Announcers: Ian Eagle and J.J. Watt. This game will air to most of the country including Alaska and Hawaii, except for the upper Midwest — meaning Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakotas, as well as parts of eastern Montana and Wyoming and most of Iowa, as well as the Philadelphia market. The game will also be blacked out in Ohio, western Kentucky and eastern West Virginia.
Green Bay Packers at Minnesota Vikings, CBS (streaming on Paramount+). Announcers: Spero Dedes and Adam Archuleta. The Packers-Vikings game will air in the upper Midwest markets described above.
Cleveland Browns at Cincinnati Bengals, CBS (streaming on Paramount+). Announcers: Tom McCarthy and Logan Ryan. This game, with both teams eliminated from playoff contention, will air only in the Ohio and adjacent markets described above.
Dallas Cowboys at New York Giants, Fox. Announcers: Kevin Kugler and Daryl Johnston. Despite neither team having a shot at a playoff berth, this traditional rivalry gets a near-national audience, with Alaska and Hawaii included. The game will be blacked out only in the regions described below, where the following two games will air.
Tennessee Titans at Jacksonville Jaguars, Fox. Announcers: Adam Amin and Drew Brees. Fans can watch the Jaguars clinch the AFC South with a win in the Jacksonville market, which encompasses most of northeast Florida, as well as in all of Colorado but the southwest corner, most of Wyoming and parts of western Nebraska.
The Houston, Indianapolis and Nashville markets will also receive the Jaguars-Titans game.
New Orleans Saints at Atlanta Falcons, Fox. Announcers: Chris Myers and Mark Schlereth. See this game across most of the southeastern states, except for eastern Florida. The Tampa Bay market will carry the Saints-Falcons game.
Late Time Slot Games
Seven more games will follow, each with a scheduled kickoff of 4:25 p.m. ET. The No. 1 seed in the AFC is on the line in the Broncos-Chargers game. If the Broncos win, they clinch the top seed and a wild-card weekend bye. If they lose and the Patriots defeat the Dolphins, New England takes the top seed.
Los Angeles Chargers at Denver Broncos, CBS (streaming on Paramount+). Announcers: Jim Nantz and Tony Romo. With the top seed at stake, this game gets a nearly national audience, including in New England, where it goes head-to-head with the Patriots. Alaska and Hawaii also get the game. Otherwise, the eastern seaboard states will have the game blacked out, as will Las Vegas and the Kansas City market.
Washington Commanders at Philadelphia Eagles, CBS (streaming on Paramount+). Announcers: Kevin Harlan and Ross Tucker. This game gets the eastern seaboard markets from South Carolina through Pennsylvania, except for western Pennsylvania. The Tampa area will also see Commanders-Eagles.
New York Jets at Buffalo Bills, CBS (streaming on Paramount+). Announcers: Andrew Catalon, Charles Davis and Jason McCourty. New York City and most of New Jersey, upstate and western New York, and a strip of northwest Pennsylvania will all see the final game at the Bills’ old Highmark Stadium.
Kansas City Chiefs at Las Vegas Raiders, CBS (streaming on Paramount+). Announcers: Chris Lewis and Kyle Long. The Kansas City market — including most of Kansas and western Missouri — and Las Vegas will get this matchup, likely marking the end of the Travis Kelce era in Kansas City on a team that failed to make the playoffs after reaching the Super Bowl five times in six years and winning three.
Detroit Lions at Chicago Bears, Fox. Announcers: Kevin Burkhardt and Tom Brady. Though the Lions missed the playoffs this year after a 15-2 season in 2024, this game airs to most of the country anyway, including Alaska and Hawaii. Only the markets described for the games below will be blacked out.
Miami Dolphins at New England Patriots, Fox. Announcers: Joe Davis and Greg Olsen. The Dolphins are eliminated, but the surprising 13-3 Patriots must win to have a chance at the top AFC seed. New England gets this game, of course, as does all of Florida and the southernmost strip of Georgia. All of Colorado, most of New Mexico and a sliver of northeast Arizona will also receive Patriots-Dolphins, as will the largest portion of eastern Wyoming and a few locations in western Nebraska.
Arizona Cardinals at Los Angeles Rams, Fox. Announcers: Kenny Albert and Jonathan Vilma. The Rams controlled the NFC West for most of the season but have now fallen to the No. 6 seed. But they can move up to No. 5 if they beat Arizona and the Seattle Seahawks defeat the San Francisco 49ers on Saturday night. Viewers will see this game in California and Arizona, except for that state’s northeast corner. Parts of southern Oregon and most of western Nevada will also carry the game.
On Saturday, the Carolina Panthers fell to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers by a 16-14 score, creating a tiebreaker situation in which the winner of Sunday’s Saints-Falcons game will determine who wins the NFC South. A Saints victory gives the division title to Tampa Bay. A Falcons win, and the Panthers grab their first division title since 2015.
Also on Saturday, the Seattle Seahawks powered past the San Francisco 49ers 13-3 to clinch the No. 1 seed in the NFC and a bye for wild-card weekend. The 49ers must wait to see who wins the Rams-Cardinals game. If it’s Arizona, San Francisco stays at the fifth seed. But if Los Angeles wins, it’s the Rams who move up to No. 5 and the 49ers bump down to sixth.
The No. 6 seed will face either the Eagles or the Bears in a wild-card game, while the fifth-seeded team gets either Tampa Bay or Carolina, both of whom finish with losing 8-9 records.
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