{"id":673368,"date":"2026-01-13T06:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T06:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/673368\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T06:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T06:41:13","slug":"date-time-for-rams-bears-playoff-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/673368\/","title":{"rendered":"Date, time for Rams-Bears playoff game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updated Jan. 12, 2026, 8:40 p.m. PT<\/p>\n

On Monday night, the NFL finalized the divisional round schedule for the four games that will be played on Saturday and Sunday. We already knew that the Los Angeles Rams and Chicago Bears<\/a> would square off in one of the two Sunday windows, but we finally know the time of kickoff.<\/p>\n

The Rams<\/a>–Bears<\/a> game will be at 6:30 p.m. ET on Sunday at Soldier Field. It\u2019s the second of the two NFC games to be played this weekend, with the Seahawks<\/a> and 49ers playing at on Saturday. Rams-Bears will be broadcast<\/a> on NBC.<\/p>\n

Below is the full schedule of games for the upcoming weekend, beginning with Bills-Broncos on Saturday afternoon and wrapping up with Rams-Bears on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n

NFL divisional round schedule<\/p>\n

This is the first playoff meeting between the Rams and Bears since the 1985 NFC Championship Game, which Chicago won 24-0 at home. The Rams and Bears last met in the regular season in 2024, which was won by Caleb Williams and Chicago.<\/p>\n

Expert NFL picks: Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a>\"\"\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Jan. 12, 2026, 8:40 p.m. PT On Monday night, the NFL finalized the divisional round schedule for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2070],"tags":[95878,374,692,391,2493,7,6,95922,95923,95882,96164,95946,96089,96085,96082,95924,95944,95896,95888,95895,95906,95977,96177,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-673368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bears","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-bears","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-bears","12":"tag-chicagobears","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnflrams","16":"tag-sstsnrams","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagcaleb-williams","19":"tag-tagcalifornia-gold-rush","20":"tag-tagchicago-bears","21":"tag-taglive-sporting-events","22":"tag-taglocal-affiliate-arts-entertainment","23":"tag-taglos-angeles-rams","24":"tag-tagnational-football-conference","25":"tag-tagnational-sports","26":"tag-tagnfl","27":"tag-tagnfl-hub","28":"tag-tagoverall-positive","29":"tag-tagseattle-seahawks","30":"tag-tagsmg-breaking-wire","31":"tag-tagsports-news","32":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115886429720257941","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673368","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=673368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}