NFC wild-card predictions: Who advances and who goes home
USA TODAY Sports Chris Bumbaca and Joe Rivera share who they think will make it out of the NFC Wild Card round.
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There wasn’t a “Thursday Night Football” game in Week 18 of the 2025 NFL season. Will that change in the first round of the NFL playoffs?
Amazon Prime is set to broadcast a playoff game for the second consecutive season. While all but one of the streaming giant’s regular-season games was played on a Thursday – the lone exception being the network’s Black Friday game – that trend will not continue during the postseason.
Here’s what to know about the 2025 NFL playoff schedule and whether there will be a game on Thursday night.
Is there a Thursday Night Football game tonight?
There will not be a “Thursday Night Football” game played during the NFL playoffs – at least not one that will actually be played on a Thursday.
Amazon’s season-long slate of Thursday prime-time games came to an end in Week 17, when the Denver Broncos earned a 20-13 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs to close the NFL’s three-game Christmas slate. That marked the last NFL Thursday game until the 2025 regular-season opener in September.
That said, Amazon’s “TNF” crew still has one broadcast remaining. Al Michaels (play-by-play), Kirk Herbstreit (analyst) and Kaylee Hartung (sideline reporter) will be on the call for the Chicago Bears vs. Green Bay Packers playoff matchup on Saturday, Jan. 10 at 8 p.m. ET. It marks the second consecutive season Amazon has been given the rights to the Saturday night wild-card playoff game.
And those looking to satisfy their craving for any sort of Thursday football will be able to tune into the first College Football Playoff semifinal in place of the usual “Thursday Night Football” slate. ESPN will be broadcasting the Ole Miss vs. Miami (FL) at the Fiesta Bowl starting at 7:30 p.m. ET.
Thursday Night Football schedule, recap
The NFL broadcast a total of 21 games on Thursdays throughout the 2025 NFL season. A total of 15 of those contests were broadcast on Amazon while the other five aired on CBS, Fox, NBC and Netflix as part of the NFL’s Week 1 and holiday schedules.
Below is a full look back at the NFL’s Thursday slate for 2025:
- Week 1: Philadelphia Eagles 24, Dallas Cowboys 20
- Week 2: Green Bay Packers 27, Washington Commanders 18
- Week 3: Buffalo Bills 31, Miami Dolphins 21
- Week 4: Seattle Seahawks 23, Arizona Cardinals 20
- Week 5: San Francisco 49ers 26, Los Angeles Rams 23
- Week 6: New York Giants 34, Philadelphia Eagles 17
- Week 7: Cincinnati Bengals 33, Pittsburgh Steelers 31
- Week 8: Los Angeles Chargers 37, Minnesota Vikings 10
- Week 9: Baltimore Ravens 28, Miami Dolphins 6
- Week 10: Denver Broncos 10, Las Vegas Raiders 7
- Week 11: New England Patriots 27, New York Jets 14
- Week 12: Houston Texans 23, Buffalo Bills 19
- Week 13 (Thanksgiving): Green Bay Packers 31, Detroit Lions 24; Dallas Cowboys 31, Kansas City Chiefs 28; Cincinnati Bengals 32, Baltimore Ravens 14
- Week 14: Detroit Lions 44, Dallas Cowboys 30
- Week 15: Atlanta Falcons 29, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 28
- Week 16: Seattle Seahawks 38, Los Angeles Rams 37
- Week 17 (Christmas): Dallas Cowboys 30, Washington Commanders 23; Minnesota Vikings 23, Detroit Lions 10; Denver Broncos 20, Kansas City Chiefs 13
- Week 18: No Thursday game
NFL playoff schedule
Below is a full look at the NFL’s playoff schedule, with all times and matchups set for the wild-card round.
All times Eastern.
Wild-card round
Saturday, Jan. 10
Sunday, Jan. 11
Monday, Jan. 12
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Divisional round
Saturday, Jan. 17
- AFC/NFC divisional game: 4:30 p.m.
- AFC/NFC divisional game: 8:15 p.m.
Sunday, Jan. 18
- AFC/NFC divisional game: 3 p.m.
- AFC/NFC divisional game: 6:30 p.m.
NFL conference championship round
Sunday, Jan. 25
- AFC championship game: 3 p.m.
- NFC championship game: 6:30 p.m.
Super Bowl 60
- TV: NBC
- Date: Feb. 8, 2026
- Location: Levi’s Stadium (Santa Clara, California)
- Time: 6:30 p.m.
