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I tune in to Sunday Night Football on NBC, which stands alongside Monday Night Football and Thursday Night Football as one of the three weekly primetime NFL broadcasts. Since it’s on NBC, I can watch the full 2024 season without needing a cable subscription.
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For National Football League fans, Sundays are sacred. And the day culminates with Sunday Night Football. Unlike the other games airing that day in their own markets, Sunday Night Football puts two teams on the national stage. So fans naturally want access.
Thanks to live streaming services like Fubo and DIRECTV, it’s easy to watch Sunday Night Football without cable. Let’s take a closer look.
| Date | Time (ET) | Teams |
| Sun Aug 25 | 8:00 pm | PRE New England Patriots at Washington Commanders |
All Sunday Night Football matchups air on NBC. This means that in most areas in the United States, you can watch for free by setting up an antenna. Sling TV will even give you one free.
If that’s not a viable option for you, NBC is widely available on streaming services. We recommend Fubo or DIRECTV, which offer it just about everywhere. But you have other options that we discuss below.
All the following streaming services offer your local NBC affiliate and much more:
Sunday Night Football will also stream live on Peacock. However, you will need to sign up for the Peacock Premium service for $10.99/month. See our Peacock review for complete details.
If you don’t mind watching on a mobile device (phone or tablet), NFL+ is a good deal. For $6.99/month, you get to live stream all your local Sunday afternoon games.
And you also get to live stream all the primetime games — Sunday Night Football, Monday Night Football, and Thursday Night Football.
You can even watch on-demand replays. They come in handy if you can’t catch the game live, or you just want to watch a replay of one of your favorites. Our NFL+ review has all the details.
All the live TV streaming services we’ve discussed above, as well as Peacock, support the vast majority of streaming devices in use today. These include the following:
Note that DIRECTV does not support LG, Vizio, and Xbox. Hulu + Live TV, YouTube TV, and Peacock also support PlayStation units.
Sunday Night Football is NBC Sports’s NFL brand. It mostly features all the Sunday night games of the regular season. But it also shows preseason and post-season games, as well as some Thursday night regular season matchups.
Sunday night games on NBC are preceded by Football Night in America, NBC’s long-running pre-game show.
The first Sunday Night Football game aired in 2006 with the Hall of Fame game. This is the first (preseason) game each year. It is always a Sunday Night Football game, except for years when there are scheduling conflicts (normally because of NBC’s coverage of the Olympics or other live sports). This is the case in 2024.
In addition to airing all the Sunday night games, NBC also airs two Thursday night games: the first of the season and the Thanksgiving game. This will be the case for at least the next few years.
Sunday Night Football features Mike Tirico doing the play-by-play announcing — taking over from Al Michaels, who has moved to Thursday Night Football. Michaels still commentates some special NBC sporting events.
Doing analysis with him is former Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Cris Collinsworth. Rounding out the group is Melissa Stark who does sideline reporting. Former ref Terry McAulay provides rules analysis (he also serves in this role for Amazon’s Thursday Night Football).
This season, two of the NBC Sunday Night Football games will actually air on Thursday: September 5th (Ravens @ Chiefs) and November 28th (Dolphins @ Packers). That’s the season opener and one of the Thanksgiving day games. And there is one Saturday afternoon game on December 21st (Texans @ Chiefs)
Here are all the SNF matchups on the NFL schedule. All the games air on NBC and with, except for the preseason and Saturday afternoon games, start at 7:00 pm with kickoff at 8:20 pm — all times Eastern.
| Date | Time (ET) | Teams |
| Sun Aug 25 | 8:00 pm | PRE New England Patriots at Washington Commanders |
| Thu Sep 5 | 8:20 pm | Baltimore Ravens at Kansas City Chiefs |
| Sun Sep 8 | 8:20 pm | Los Angeles Rams at Detroit Lions |
| Sun Sep 15 | 8:20 pm | Chicago Bears at Houston Texans |
| Sun Sep 23 | 8:20 pm | Kansas City Chiefs at Atlanta Falcons |
| Sun Sep 29 | 8:20 pm | Buffalo Bills at Baltimore Ravens |
| Sun Oct 6 | 8:20 pm | Dallas Cowboys at Pittsburgh Steelers |
| Sun Oct 13 | 8:20 pm | Cincinnati Bengals at New York Giants |
| Sun Oct 20 | 8:20 pm | New York Jets at Pittsburgh Steelers |
| Sun Oct 27 | 8:20 pm | Dallas Cowboys at San Francisco 49ers |
| Sun Nov 3 | 8:20 pm | Jacksonville Jaguars at Philadelphia Eagles |
| Sun Nov 10 | 8:20 pm | Detroit Lions at Houston Texans |
| Sun Nov 17 | 8:20 pm | Indianapolis Colts at New York Jets |
| Sun Nov 24 | 8:20 pm | Philadelphia Eagles at Los Angeles Rams |
| Thu Nov 28 | 8:20 pm | Miami Dolphins at Green Bay Packers |
| Sun Dec 1 | 8:20 pm | San Francisco 49ers at Buffalo Bills |
| Sun Dec 8 | 8:20 pm | Los Angeles Chargers at Kansas City Chiefs |
| Sun Dec 15 | 8:20 pm | Green Bay Packers at Seattle Seahawks |
| Sat Dec 21 | 1:00 pm | Houston Texans at Kansas City Chiefs |
| Sun Dec 22 | 8:20 pm | Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Dallas Cowboys |
| Sun Dec 29 | 8:20 pm | Miami Dolphins at Cleveland Browns |
Unlike last year, there will be no Sunday night games that are not Sunday Night Football.
Teams not appearing on SNF this season:
After reviewing all the available streaming services for Sunday Night Football, I found that Fubo stands out as the best option for most people. It offers excellent streaming quality, with unlimited cloud DVR storage, and it lets you stream on up to 10 devices at home, which is perfect for families or group settings. Unlike some competitors, Fubo’s lineup includes not only NBC but also other major networks like CBS, Fox, and ESPN, ensuring you get comprehensive coverage for all NFL games. The interface is user-friendly, and the service has a great reputation for reliability. While it’s a bit more expensive, the overall value is solid, especially for sports lovers who want a seamless experience.
All of the regular season Sunday Night Football games stream live on Peacock as well as NBC. It’s slightly more complicated during the playoffs. NBC Sports will air three playoff games. One will be exclusively on NBC, one exclusively on Peacock, and one airing on both.
Yes. There will be two Wild Card games on NBC during the 2025 NFL playoffs. The first is on Saturday, January 11th at 4:30 pm EST. (Note that there is also a streaming-only game on Peacock the same day at 8:00 pm.) The second NBC game is on Sunday, January 12th at 8:15 pm.
Sunday Night Football airs only one preseason matchup. It is on Sunday, August 25th at 8:00 pm and features New England Patriots at Washington Commanders. Otherwise, the schedule is limited to 17 Sunday night, 2 Thursday night, and 1 Saturday afternoon regular season games and two post-season wild card games.
No, NFL Redzone is limited to Sunday afternoon games (the “early” one around 1:00 pm and the “later” one around 4:00 pm). It shows seven hours of “whip-around” coverage of all the most exciting bits of all the games going on any given Sunday afternoon. It does not show entire games, and it does not cover Sunday night games (which are exclusively on NBC).
You can watch free football all day long on Sunday with just an antenna, which costs less than $50. Sunday afternoon games are on Fox and CBS, and Sunday night games are on NBC — all three of those are “OTA” over-the-air, sometimes also called free-to-air. Anyone with the means to pick them up can watch for free.
If you’re interested in watching more than just broadcast channels, you should take a look at Sling TV — prepay one month ($45.99/month) and you can get a free antenna from them.
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