By Kamila Hinkson, Ben Burrows and Jon Machota

The road to a Super Bowl repeat for the Philadelphia Eagles will begin with a familiar foe: the Dallas Cowboys.

The defending world champions will kick off the 2025 season by hosting their NFC East rivals on Thursday, Sept. 4.

The league made the announcement Monday ahead of the full schedule release Wednesday. The details were revealed on NBC’s “Today” show; NBC and Peacock will broadcast the game.

We’ll be waiting all summer for this INCREDIBLE NFL Kickoff showdown.

Cowboys. Eagles. Sept. 4. @NBC and @peacock. pic.twitter.com/LXjpEAfDHm

— Sunday Night Football on NBC (@SNFonNBC) May 12, 2025

The game will likely mark Dak Prescott’s return to the field for the first time since the hamstring injury that ended his 2024 season in Week 9.

Philadelphia beat Dallas in both meetings in 2024: a 34-6 victory at AT&T Stadium in November and a 41-7 win at Lincoln Financial Field in December. Prescott missed both games.

The NFL will tease aspects of its schedule over the next two days ahead of a three-hour schedule release special on NFL Network on Wednesday, beginning at 8 p.m. ET.

The matchups and dates for each international game will be announced on Tuesday on NFL Network’s “Good Morning Football.” That includes two regular season games at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium (with the New York Jets and Cleveland Browns as the designated teams), and one game each in Berlin (Indianapolis Colts), Madrid (Miami Dolphins), Dublin (Pittsburgh Steelers), São Paulo (Los Angeles Chargers) and at London’s Wembley Stadium (as part of the Jacksonville Jaguars’ multi-year commitment to playing a game in the U.K.).

The 32 NFL clubs know their opponents for the upcoming season, but where the matchups fall on the calendar will come with the schedule announcement.

Super Bowl LX will be played on Feb. 8, 2026, at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif.

Playing for ratings?

The Cowboys haven’t done anything recently on the field to deserve playing in such a notable regular season game, but they get eyeballs. When the Cowboys play, they still draw some of the biggest numbers in all of television. Heck of a way for Brian Schottenheimer to begin his head coaching career.

While the Eagles have clearly been the better franchise recently, the Cowboys have performed well against Philadelphia when their franchise quarterback is healthy. Prescott is 9-4 against the Eagles. Dallas’ players will enjoy this opportunity, not just because it’s a marquee game, but this means the Cowboys won’t have to travel to Philadelphia late in the year and potentially have to deal with bad weather. … Well, unless they meet again in the playoffs. — Jon Machota, Cowboys beat writer

This story will be updated

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