Three Thanksgiving football games fill Thursday 26 November 2026. The Chicago Bears at the Detroit Lions kicks off at 1:00 PM ET on CBS. The Philadelphia Eagles at the Dallas Cowboys follows at 4:30 PM ET on Fox, and the Kansas City Chiefs at the Buffalo Bills closes the day at 8:20 PM ET on NBC. All three are Week 12 games.
TCU at Texas Tech is the one college game on the holiday itself. It kicks off at 8:00 PM ET on ESPN, at Galaxy Stadium in Lubbock.
Thanksgiving Day football schedule
| Kickoff (ET) | Game | Stadium | TV |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1:00 PM | Chicago Bears at Detroit Lions | Ford Field, Detroit, MI | CBS |
| 4:30 PM | Philadelphia Eagles at Dallas Cowboys | AT&T Stadium, Arlington, TX | Fox |
| 8:00 PM | TCU Horned Frogs at Texas Tech Red Raiders (college) | Galaxy Stadium, Lubbock, TX | ESPN |
| 8:20 PM | Kansas City Chiefs at Buffalo Bills | Highmark Stadium, Orchard Park, NY | NBC |
Week 12 opens the night before. The Green Bay Packers play the Los Angeles Rams on Wednesday 25 November at 8:00 PM ET on Netflix, at SoFi Stadium.
The slate continues on Friday 27 November with the Denver Broncos at the Pittsburgh Steelers at 3:00 PM ET on Prime Video. That game has its own page: Black Friday football odds and predictions.
Where the six teams stand
These are the records as ESPN listed them at 1:37 AM ET on Saturday 14 November 2026, before the Week 10 Sunday games. They will move again before the holiday, and this table moves with them.
| Game | Away: record (place in conference, streak) | Home: record (place in conference, streak) |
|---|---|---|
| Chicago Bears at Detroit Lions | 7-2 (2nd in the NFC, W4) | 6-2 (5th in the NFC, W4) |
| Philadelphia Eagles at Dallas Cowboys | 2-7 (16th in the NFC, L7) | 4-5 (10th in the NFC, W1) |
| Kansas City Chiefs at Buffalo Bills | 6-2 (5th in the AFC, W1) | 7-1 (1st in the AFC, W4) |
| TCU Horned Frogs at Texas Tech Red Raiders | 4-5 | 8-1 |
Place in conference is ESPN’s order of all 16 teams in each conference. At the read, places 1 to 7 were playoff positions. Chicago sat second in the NFC and Detroit fifth, so both were inside the top seven. Both also came in on four-game winning streaks, and the early game at Ford Field puts those two runs on one field.
The night game matches the top of the AFC order against the middle of its playoff places. Buffalo was first, on a four-game winning streak, and Kansas City was fifth.
Philadelphia was on a seven-game losing streak and 16th in the NFC, last in the order. Dallas, its host at AT&T Stadium, was tenth, outside the playoff places.
Two weeks moved several records. On 1 November this page had Chicago at 5-2; it now shows 7-2. Buffalo went from 5-1 to 7-1, and Kansas City went from 5-1 to 6-2. Philadelphia went from 2-5 to 2-7.
Thanksgiving football odds
No line was posted on any of the three NFL games at 1:37 AM ET on Saturday 14 November 2026. ESPN’s scoreboard and its odds feed listed no spread, moneyline or total for Bears at Lions, Eagles at Cowboys or Chiefs at Bills. Once the lines go up, this section will carry both sides of every market, with the book and the time read.
The college game has an early spread. DraftKings lists Texas Tech -16.5 and TCU +16.5, the same number it showed on 23 October and 1 November. No price is attached to either side yet, and no moneyline or total is posted.
Our Thanksgiving predictions
At the 14 November read, none of the four holiday games had a prediction. Each gets its own before kickoff, with the price, our number and the call. The NFL games go up on our NFL predictions page, and the full slate sits on the NFL Week 12 odds and predictions post.
TCU at Texas Tech will be on our college football predictions page and the college football Week 13 odds and predictions post. This page links each call as it is published.
Last year’s Thanksgiving results
The 2025 games were played on Thursday 27 November 2025, in Week 13. Detroit and Baltimore lost at home, and Dallas won.
| Game | Final |
|---|---|
| Green Bay Packers at Detroit Lions | Packers 31, Lions 24 |
| Kansas City Chiefs at Dallas Cowboys | Chiefs 28, Cowboys 31 |
| Cincinnati Bengals at Baltimore Ravens | Bengals 32, Ravens 14 |
Last year this page backed the Lions, the Chiefs and the Ravens on the moneyline. All three of those picks lost.
On the Friday after, the Chicago Bears won 24-15 at the Philadelphia Eagles.
Sources: ESPN NFL scoreboard, 2026 Week 12 (schedule, kickoff, TV, stadiums, records), ESPN NFL standings 2026 (conference place, streak, points), ESPN’s NFL odds feed for each Thanksgiving game and ESPN college football scoreboard for 26 November 2026 (TCU at Texas Tech, the DraftKings spread), all read 14 November 2026, 06:37 UTC (1:37 AM ET); ESPN NFL scoreboard for 2025 Week 13 (results), read 23 October 2026.