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Since 1990, the majority of NFL regular-season games are played on Sundays at 1:00 pm, or around 4:05 to 4:25pm ET (see below). The late afternoon (ET) window is usually reserved for games hosted in the Pacific Time Zone or Mountain Time Zone, plus one or more marquee contests.
The two division/conference regular season champions then played in the NFL Championship Game. If two teams tied for the division/conference championship at the end of the regular season, then a one-game playoff was played to determine who would advance to the NFL Championship Game. [20] [21]
Players of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who have the lowest win–loss percentage (.406) in the NFL regular season. The following is a listing of all 32 current National Football League (NFL) teams ranked by their regular season win–loss record percentage, accurate as of the end of week 18 of the 2024 NFL season.
However, the CBA enacted in 2021 expanded the regular season to 17 games with one bye week and introduced at least four neutral site games each year from 2022. [10] Teams will alternate seasons where they host nine regular-season games and one preseason game, or eight regular-season games and two preseason games.
NFL regular season games accounted for 31 out of the top 32 most-watched programs in the fall season and an NFL game ranked as the most-watched television show in all 17 weeks of the regular season. At the local level, NFL games were the highest-ranked shows in NFL markets 92% of the time. [130]
The NFL's international expansion is pushing all the way into yet another continent. The league will hold its first ever regular-season game in Australia in 2026, it announced Wednesday.
The winner of Sunday night's game will become just the ninth team in NFL history to finish a regular season with 15 or more wins. The loser will have the most wins of any wild-card team in history.
In 2017, the NFL shortened overtime from 15 minutes to 10 minutes for regular season games with the intent of reducing the risk of injury. [53] [54] Through Week 16 of the 2024 season, a total of 111 regular season games went to overtime under these rules, 7 (6.3%) of which ended in a tie.