2015 NFL season
| Regular season | |
|---|---|
| Duration | September 10, 2015 – January 3, 2016 |
| Playoffs | |
| Start date | January 9, 2016 |
| Super Bowl 50 | |
| Date | February 7, 2016 (tentative) |
| Site | Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara, California |
| Pro Bowl | |
| Date | January 31, 2016 |
| Site | Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, Hawaii |
The 2015 NFL season, the 96th regular season of the National Football League, is tentatively set to begin in September 2015, with the defending Super Bowl XLIX champion's home hosting the annual Kickoff game, the season conclude with Super Bowl 50, the league's championship game on Sunday February 7, 2016 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, CA.
Schedule
Due to the NFL's scheduling format, the intraconference and interconference matchups should be:
Intraconference
Interconference
Highlights of the 2015 NFL schedule include
- 2015 NFL Kickoff Game: The 2015 season will begin on Thursday September 10, 2015 starting at 8:30 p.m. ET (5:30 p.m. PT) on NBC in the Super Bowl XLIX champions home.
Postseason
- Wild Card Round
The wild card round of the playoffs will feature two or three wild card playoff qualilfiers from each conference being hosted by the two or three lowest seeded divisional winners. The one or two seeds in each conference will have first–round byes. The games will be played January 9-10, 2016.
- Divisional Round
The divisional round games will be played on January 16-17, 2016 with the winners of each of the games in the wild card round visiting one of the two top seed teams in each conference.
- Conference Championships
The conference championships will be played on Sunday January 24, 2016, with the AFC Championship Game at 3:00 pm Eastern Time on CBS and the NFC Championship Game following at 6:30 pm Eastern on Fox.
Super Bowl 50
Super Bowl 50, the 50th contesting of the Super Bowl, will decide the 2015 NFL champion on February 7, 2016. The game will take place at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California. The Super Bowl will be televised in the U.S by CBS. with a kickoff around 3:30 pm PST
Media
This will be the second season under a nine–year television contract with CBS, (almost all AFC afternoon games), Fox, (almost all NFC afternoon games), NBC, (Sunday Night Football games, Thanksgiving night game, and the Kickoff Game); and an eight–year contract with ESPN (Monday Night Football games).
Stadiums
This will be the Minnesota Vikings 2nd and final season at TCF Bank Stadium on the campus of the University of Minnesota before moving into their new stadium.