{"id":683766,"date":"2026-01-17T08:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T08:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/683766\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T08:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T08:05:13","slug":"do-the-patriots-play-today-schedule-time-channel-for-next-new-england-nfl-playoff-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/683766\/","title":{"rendered":"Do the Patriots play today? Schedule, time, channel for next New England NFL playoff game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do the Patriots play today? Schedule, time, channel for next New England NFL playoff game<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The New England Patriots<\/a>‘ breakout 2025 season continued in the wild-card round of the 2026 NFL Playoffs.<\/p>\n

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Mike Vrabel’s squad took down the Los Angeles Chargers<\/a> 16-3, as the Patriots’ defense put forth a dominant effort to claim the franchise’s first playoff victory in years. However, that also means New England’s Super Bowl contention will roll on.<\/p>\n

The Patriots will be one of eight NFL teams playing in the 2026 divisional round. Just one more win could send New England to the AFC Championship Game in Vrabel’s first year in town and Drake Maye’s second year in the league.<\/p>\n

When will the Patriots play in the divisional round? Here’s what you need to know.<\/p>\n

When is the Patriots’ next game?<\/p>\n

Matchup:\u00a0Patriots vs. Texans<\/p>\n

After the Patriots took down the seventh-seeded Los Angeles Chargers in the wild-card round, their next challenge will be a home game against the Texans<\/a>on Sunday, Jan. 18.<\/p>\n

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The matchup between New England and the Texans is set for kickoff at 3p.m. ET\u00a0and will be aired nationally on ESPN\/ABC.\u00a0Joe Buck will serve as the game’s play-by-play announcer, while Troy Aikman will be the analyst, and Lisa Salters and Laura Rutledge\u00a0will be the sideline reporters. Cord-cutters can find the action on Fubo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

NFL playoff schedule 2026Wild-card round<\/p>\n

Saturday, Jan. 10<\/p>\n

Matchup<\/p>\n

Time (ET)<\/p>\n

TV\/Live stream<\/p>\n

Rams 34, Panthers 31<\/p>\n

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Bears 31, Packers 27<\/p>\n

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Sunday, Jan. 11<\/p>\n

Matchup<\/p>\n

Time (ET)<\/p>\n

TV\/Live stream<\/p>\n

Bills 27, Jaguars 24<\/p>\n

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49ers 23, Eagles 19<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/p>\n

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Patriots 16, Chargers 3<\/p>\n

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Monday, Jan. 12<\/p>\n

Matchup<\/p>\n

Time (ET)<\/p>\n

TV\/Live stream<\/p>\n

Texans 30, Steelers 6<\/p>\n

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Divisional round<\/p>\n

Saturday, Jan. 17<\/p>\n

Matchup<\/p>\n

Time (ET)<\/p>\n

TV Channel<\/p>\n

Bills vs. Broncos<\/p>\n

4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

CBS<\/p>\n

49ers vs. Seahawks<\/p>\n

8 p.m.<\/p>\n

FOX<\/p>\n

Sunday, Jan. 18<\/p>\n

Matchup<\/p>\n

Time (ET)<\/p>\n

TV Channel<\/p>\n

Texans\u00a0vs. Patriots<\/p>\n

3 p.m.<\/p>\n

ESPN\/ABC<\/p>\n

Bears vs. Rams<\/p>\n

6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

NBC<\/p>\n

Conference championships<\/p>\n

Sunday, Jan. 25<\/p>\n

Matchup<\/p>\n

Time (ET)<\/p>\n

TV\/Live stream<\/p>\n

AFC Championship<\/p>\n

3 p.m.<\/p>\n

CBS,\u00a0Paramount+<\/a>,\u00a0Fubo<\/a><\/p>\n

NFC Championship<\/p>\n

6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

Fox,\u00a0Fubo<\/a><\/p>\n

Super Bowl 60<\/p>\n

Sunday, Feb. 8<\/p>\n

Matchup<\/p>\n

Time (ET)<\/p>\n

TV\/Live stream<\/p>\n

TBD<\/p>\n

6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

NBC,\u00a0Peacock<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Do the Patriots play today? Schedule, time, channel for next New England NFL playoff game originally appeared on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[374,422,833,7,262,838,1167,249,2326,2094,6,428,236,208,426,222,45392],"class_list":["post-683766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-england-patriots","tag-bears","tag-divisional-round","tag-drake-maye","tag-football","tag-los-angeles-chargers","tag-mike-vrabel","tag-new-england","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-newengland","tag-newenglandpatriots","tag-nfl","tag-packers","tag-panthers","tag-patriots","tag-steelers","tag-texans","tag-tv-channel"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115909409769283790","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683766","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=683766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}