{"id":478491,"date":"2025-10-27T01:34:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T01:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/478491\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T01:34:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T01:34:18","slug":"do-the-lions-play-today-time-tv-channel-for-detroit-lions-next-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/478491\/","title":{"rendered":"Do the Lions play today? Time, TV channel, for Detroit Lions next game"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Detroit Lions DT Alim McNeill on his role upon returning from injury<\/p>\n

Detroit Lions DT Alim McNeill said he’s just focused on his own job after the Lions’ win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday, Oct. 20, 2025.<\/p>\n

The Detroit Lions<\/a> are 5-2 after dispatching the Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a>, 24-9, on Monday Night Football<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And after that win, the Lions<\/a> are getting a much-needed break.<\/p>\n

The Lions have a bye in Week 8 of the NFL season, meaning they won’t play a game this week. They return in Week 9 for a Sunday afternoon matchup against the Minnesota Vikings<\/a> at Ford Field on Nov. 2.<\/p>\n

Here’s what you need to know about the Lions’ off week.<\/p>\n

MIDSEASON PICKS: Our Lions predictions for how they’ll finish with Super Bowl 2026 in sight<\/a><\/p>\n

Do the Lions playing today?<\/p>\n

No. The Lions have a bye for Week 8, meaning there will be no Lions game today.<\/p>\n

When do the Lions play next?<\/p>\n

The Lions play the Vikings in a Week 9 home matchup on Sunday, Nov. 2.<\/p>\n

Date: Sunday, Nov. 2.Opponent: Minnesota Vikings.Kickoff: 1 p.m. ET.TV channel: Fox.Location: Ford Field.Lions schedule 2025Week 1:\u00a0L, 27-13<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0Green Bay Packers.Week 2:\u00a0W, 52-21<\/a>\u00a0vs\u00a0Chicago Bears<\/a>.Week 3:\u00a0W, 38-30<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0Baltimore Ravens.Week 4:\u00a0W, 34-10<\/a>\u00a0vs\u00a0Cleveland Browns.Week 5:\u00a0W, 37-24<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0Cincinnati Bengals.Week 6:\u00a0L, 30-17<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0Kansas City Chiefs.Week 7:\u00a0W, 24-9<\/a>\u00a0vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers.Week 8:\u00a0Bye week.Week 9,\u00a0Sunday,\u00a0Nov. 2:\u00a0vs\u00a0Minnesota Vikings, 1 p.m., Fox.Week 10,\u00a0Sunday,\u00a0Nov. 9:\u00a0at\u00a0Washington Commanders, 4:25 p.m., Fox.Week 11,\u00a0Sunday,\u00a0Nov. 16:\u00a0at\u00a0Philadelphia Eagles, 8:20 p.m., NBC.Week 12,\u00a0Sunday,\u00a0Nov. 23:\u00a0vs\u00a0New York Giants, 1 p.m., Fox.Week 13, Thursday, Nov. 27:\u00a0vs Green Bay Packers, 1 p.m., Fox.Week 14,\u00a0Thursday,\u00a0Dec. 4:\u00a0vs\u00a0Dallas Cowboys, 8:15 p.m., Prime Video.Week 15, Sunday, Dec. 14:\u00a0at\u00a0Los Angeles Rams, 4:25 p.m., Fox.Week 16,\u00a0Sunday,\u00a0Dec. 21:\u00a0vs\u00a0Pittsburgh Steelers, 4:25 p.m., CBS.Week 17,\u00a0Thursday,\u00a0Dec. 25:\u00a0at Minnesota Vikings, 4:30 p.m., Netflix.Week 18, Saturday\/Sunday, Jan. 3-4:\u00a0at Chicago Bears, TBD.<\/p>\n

You can reach Christian at cromo@freepress.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detroit Lions DT Alim McNeill on his role upon returning from injury Detroit Lions DT Alim McNeill said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[247,265,210,374,211,692,391,146,113,2506,864,3203,7,1134,20842,2126,147,3198,233,259,677,679,248,267,330,88,6,35196,245,338,3197,818,817,829,9,266,819,678,209,250,3199,693,2132,776,234,2125,1199],"class_list":{"0":"post-478491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-lions","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-bay","11":"tag-bears","12":"tag-buccaneers","13":"tag-chicago","14":"tag-chicago-bears","15":"tag-detroit","16":"tag-detroit-lions","17":"tag-detroitlions","18":"tag-exclude","19":"tag-exclude-from-paywall-logic-testing","20":"tag-football","21":"tag-from","22":"tag-hub","23":"tag-know","24":"tag-lions","25":"tag-logic","26":"tag-minnesota","27":"tag-minnesota-vikings","28":"tag-modular","29":"tag-modular-story","30":"tag-national","31":"tag-national-sports","32":"tag-negative","33":"tag-news","34":"tag-nfl","35":"tag-nfl-hub","36":"tag-overall","37":"tag-overall-negative","38":"tag-paywall","39":"tag-scores","40":"tag-sport","41":"tag-sport-scores-u0026-statistics","42":"tag-sports","43":"tag-sports-news","44":"tag-statistics","45":"tag-story","46":"tag-tampa","47":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","48":"tag-testing","49":"tag-ttp","50":"tag-ttp-what-we-know","51":"tag-u0026","52":"tag-vikings","53":"tag-we","54":"tag-what"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}