It’s a new normal for the Buffalo Bills — a team led by one of the NFL’s best players in quarterback Josh Allen: One expects to see the Bills playing primetime football games. In 2025, Buffalo will play the majority of its regular-season schedule in front of a national audience.
All told, the Bills are set to play nine national games, with five of them being primetime affairs ( two on SNF, two on TNF and one MNF game) and four during the 4:25 p.m. ET window on Sundays.
Six of Buffalo’s nine home games will be played in these slots, which is bad news for those who love tailgating before a 1 p.m. ET start. But it also means the country will see a lot of the original Highmark Stadium in its last hurrah.
Buffalo Bills’ 2025 national TV schedule
Week 1 (home): Buffalo Bills vs. Baltimore Ravens (NBC) (Sunday Night Football)
(Sunday, September 7 — 8:20 p.m. EDT)
Week 3 (home): Bills vs. Miami Dolphins (Prime Video) (Thursday Night Football)
(September 18 — 8 p.m. EDT)
Week 5 (home): Bills vs. New England Patriots (NBC) (Sunday Night Football)
(Sunday, October 5 — 8:20 p.m. EDT)
Week 6 (away): Bills at Atlanta Falcons (ESPN) (Monday Night Football)
(Monday, October 13 — 8:15 p.m. EDT)
Week 9 (home): Bills vs. Kansas City Chiefs (CBS)
(Sunday, November 2 — 4:25 p.m. EST)
Week 12 (away): Bills at Houston Texans (Prime Video) (Thursday Night Football)
(November 20 — 8:15 p.m. EST)
Week 13 (away): Bills at Pittsburgh Steelers (CBS)
(Sunday, November 30 — 4:25 p.m. EST)
Week 14 (home): Bills vs. Cincinnati Bengals (CBS)
(Sunday, December 7 — 4:25 p.m. EST)
Week 17 (home): Bills vs. Philadelphia Eagles (CBS)
(Sunday, December 28 — 4:25 p.m. EST)
The NFL schedule makers were extremely kind to the Bills as all three shortened weeks come before Thanksgiving and the team’s one Monday Night Football appearance (Week 6 at Atlanta) is followed with a bye week. The primetime games before that bye week will loom large, hosting three games with two divisional opponents and a Ravens team they eliminated last postseason.
Give that, the MVP discourse should pick up right where it left off in 2024. Post-bye, CBS made sure they had control of the Allen-Mahomes yearly matchup and wanted a potential Super Bowl preview against the Eagles to bookend the season.
Week 18 hosting the Jets is also subject to flex into a national TV window if there are potential playoff implications when the Bills host the regular-season finale.