Missing football? That won’t be the case much longer. On April 16, the 2022 USFL season kicks off, when the New Jersey Generals take on the Birmingham Stallions.
That game will begin a full 10-week regular season of football action with three more postseason games to follow. The eight-team spring football league will feature North and South divisions, with each holding four teams that will play each other twice between April and June. The teams will then face the other four teams from the opposite division once before the postseason begins.
The four teams in the North are the Michigan Panthers, New Jersey Generals, Philadelphia Stars and Pittsburgh Maulers, while the South teams are the Birmingham Stallions, Houston Gamblers, New Orleans Breakers and Tampa Bay Bandits. Every game in the 2022 season will be played in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Each of the USFL games will be carried by one of the networks owned by Fox or NBC throughout the season. Fox will broadcast a plurality of the games with 14, while NBC and USA will have the broadcast for nine each. FS1 will have eight games, and Peacock, NBC’s streaming platform, will be the exclusive home for four of the games.
The season opener between the Generals and Stallions will be simulcast between Fox and NBC.
For those who have cut the cord on cable, there will be several live streaming options as well. Fans can find the games on Fox available to stream on Fox Sports Go, while games carried by the NBC family of networks will be available on Peacock and the NBC Sports app. Peacock will be the exclusive platform for four games.
Fans can also can all the USFL action live with fuboTV, which will carry the broadcasts for all the Fox and NBC networks.
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The USFL has announced each of the matchups over the 10-game season, which will run from April 16 through June 19. There will be three playoff games, which will be a pair of divisional games with the winners from each headed to the championship game. Those games will be held in late June and early July.
The only games that have official dates, times and channels are those in the first three weeks of the season. Though the matchups for the rest of the season are known, the information on how to watch them has yet to be released.
Here’s how the 2022 USFL season is currently looking:
Saturday, April 16
Sunday, April 17
Friday, April 22
Saturday, April 23
Sunday, April 24
Saturday, April 30
Sunday, May 1
Below are the matchups for the rest of the 2022 regular season, as well as the expected TV schedule for each week.
Matchups
Friday, May 6
Saturday, May 7
Sunday, May 8
Matchups
Friday, May 13
Saturday, May 14
Sunday, May 15
Matchups
Saturday, May 21
Sunday, May 22
Matchups
Saturday, May 28
Sunday, May 29
Matchups
Friday, June 3
Saturday, June 4
Sunday, June 5
Matchups
Saturday, June 11
Sunday, June 12
Matchups
Saturday, June 18
Sunday, June 19
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The USFL playoffs will take place immediately after the conclusion of the regular season. The first round of the playoffs will take place on Saturday, June 25 with the top two teams in each division facing off. The No. 1 team in the North division will host the division’s No. 2 team while the same thing will happen in the South division. The winner of those two games will then face off in the USFL championship game on Sunday, July 3.
While the USFL’s regular season will be played entirely in Birmingham, Alabama, the playoff games will be at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton, Ohio.
