‘Sunday Night Football’: All the Games Scheduled for 2023 NFL Season

The NFL recently released its schedule for the 2023 NFL season, and there are a lot of fun matchups for NBC’s Sunday Night Football. It all starts on a Thursday, Sept. 7, when the Kansas City Chiefs take on the Detroit Lions to kick off the season. Another game that stands out is the Buffalo Bills vs. Los Angeles Chargers and that game will be played on Saturday, Dec. 23 exclusively on Peacock. The broadcast team for the Sunday Night Football games includes Mike Tirico, Cris Collinsworth and Melissa Stark. 

Mike North, vice president of NFL broadcast planning and scheduling, recently appeared on The Season with Peter Schrager and explained why the Chiefs are playing the Lions to start the season and not the Philadelphia Eagles. “The last we saw of those two teams, they were playing an all-time great Super Bowl, and I think we all would have felt as fans, ‘Man, let’s just keep going. Let’s play another quarter,’” North said, per the Kansas City Star. “And we thought long and hard quite honestly about using that game as the Kickoff Game. It was the last game of last year, first game of this year. Let’s pick up right where we left off.

“But you could also see how Philly-Kansas City might be one of those games you can save until December. You’ve got to figure both of them are in the mix. And if you could put that in a national window in December with maybe a couple of one seeds on the line, what a great use of that asset.” Here’s a look at the Sunday Night Football schedule for the 2023 NFL season.  Note: All games start at 8:20 p.m. ET.

Week 1- Week 3

Kickoff Game – Detroit Lions at Kansas City Chiefs

Week 1 (Sept. 10) – Dallas Cowboys at New York Giants 

Week 2 (Sept. 17) – Miami Dolphins at New England Patriots 

Week 3 (Sept. 24) – Pittsburgh Steelers at Las Vegas Raiders

Week 4 – Week 6

Week 4 (Oct. 1) – Kansas City Chiefs at New York Jets 

Week 5 (Oct. 8) – Dallas Cowboys at San Francisco 49ers 

Wee 6 (Oct. 15) – New York Giants at Buffalo Bills 

Week 7 – Week 9

Week 7 (Oct. 22) – Miami Dolphins at Philadelphia Eagles 

Week 8 (Oct. 29) – Chicago Bears at Los Angeles Chargers 

Week 9 (Nov. 5) – Buffalo Bills at Cincinnati Bengals 

Week 10 – Week 12

Week 10 (Nov. 12) – New York Jets at Las Vegas Raiders 

Week 11 (Nov. 19) – Minnesota Vikings at Denver Broncos 

Week 12 (Nov. 23, Thanksgiving) – San Francisco 49ers at Seattle Seahawks

Week 12 (Nov. 26) – Baltimore Ravens at Los Angeles Chargers

Week 13 – Week 15

Week 13 (Dec. 3) – Kansas City Chiefs at Green Bay Packers

Week 14 (Dec. 10) – Philadelphia Eagles at Dallas Cowboys 

Week 15 (Dec. 17) – Baltimore Ravens at Jacksonville Jaguars 

Week 16 – Week 18

Week 16 (Saturday, Dec. 23) – Cincinnati Bengals at Pittsburgh Steelers (4:30 p.m. ET)

Week 16 (Saturday, Dec. 23 on Peacock) – Buffalo Bills at Los Angeles Chargers (8 p.m. ET)

Week 17 (Dec. 31) – Green Bay Packers at Minnesota Vikings 

Week 18 (Jan. 7) – TBD

Overview

One person commented: “I’m ready for week 18. Where the XFL and USFL meet in the NFL for the first time.”