American football schedules

2 leagues: NFL, NCAA FBS. The NFL is one grid. NCAA Division I FBS is 138 teams, which no single grid could hold, so it is split the way the sport is actually followed — 11 conference grids, from the SEC and the Big Ten down to the two independents. Every team across both has a schedule page of its own, 170 in all.

Because 138 teams is 138 rows, and no phone screen — and few desktop ones — can read that. College football is followed by conference anyway: people follow the Big Ten, not "FBS". So each conference has its own grid of a dozen or so teams, and a row shows every game that team plays, including the three to five against teams outside its conference. Those opponents are marked, because they have no row of their own in that table.

Every team page names it, and the grid shows it as the one week with no game in that team's row. An NFL season is 18 weeks long and a team plays 17 games, so each one sits out exactly one week. Where the bye falls matters: late in the year it is rest before the run-in, and in week five it means a long second half without one.

The NFL publishes in US Eastern time. The main Sunday afternoon slot is early evening in the UK and an hour later in central Europe, but the Sunday and Monday night games kick off in the small hours of the following morning — and this site converts every one of them into your own timezone rather than leaving you to do it. A game that lands on the next day where you are carries a +1 mark. Games played in London, Munich or Madrid run the other way: an afternoon kick-off there is a morning one in the United States.

Because a team plays once a week. The season covers about four months and games fall on roughly one day in two, so most cells in any given column are blank. Every column is still a date, the same as on every other grid on this site: it means a team's row reads left to right in true date order, and a Thursday night game sits four columns from the Monday night one rather than in the same week-shaped box.

No — every grid here is the regular season, in both leagues. The NFL playoff bracket is decided round by round as games finish, and college football's conference championship games, bowls and Playoff work the same way, so a grid of either would be mostly empty columns that change shape every week. The regular season is the part that exists in full from the day it is published.

They are refetched every night — the NFL from nflverse, college football from CollegeFootballData.com — and the pages are rebuilt when something has actually changed: a game moved, a kick-off time confirmed, a final score. During the season the previous day's results are in the grid by morning.