NFL 2025 Schedule

The NFL has unveiled 18-week NFL 2025 regular-season schedule in which the opener game (Cowboys @ Eagles) at 8:20 PM ET is scheduled for September 4, 2025 and the season concludes on January 4, 2026.

How the NFL Determines 2025 Season Schedule
It’s a complex scheduling challenge each season, balancing over 26,000 variables like stadium logistics, travel, primetime slots, competitive equity, and key rivalries. To find the best possible schedule each year, the league utilizes high-performance computing resources.

32 NFL teams play 17 games and has one “bye week”. Each team plays the other three teams in its division twice, one game against each of the four teams from a division in its own conference, one game against each of the four teams from a division in the other conference, and one game against each of the remaining two teams in its conference that finished in the same position in their divisions the previous season (e.g., the team that finished fourth in its division would play all three other teams in its conference).