NFL Playoffs Kick Off With Wild-Card Round: What’s on This Weekend in TV Sports (Jan. 12-15)
The NFL playoffs — and pro football’s postseason streaming era — will kick off with what the league bills as “Super Wild Card Weekend,” headlining the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday’s slate of TV sports offerings.
Wild-card playoff weekend begins Saturday with NBC’s Cleveland Browns-Houston Texas game telecast, followed by streamer Peacock’s exclusive telecast of the Miami Dolphins-Kansas City Chiefs game.
On Sunday, CBS will televise the Pittsburgh Steelers-Buffalo Bills game, Fox will air Green Bay Packers-Dallas Cowboys and NBC will offer Los Angeles Rams-Detroit Lions. The 1 p.m. Buffalo Bills-Pittsburgh Steelers game, set to air on CBS, was postponed until Monday at 4:30 due to an expected snowstorm in Western New York.
Monday’s primetime matchup on ABC and ESPN will showcase the Philadelphia Eagles and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
On the ice, ABC will air a Saturday primetime matchup between the New York Rangers and the Washington Capitals, while in the boxing ring, ESPN will televise a light heavyweight bout between champion Artur Beterbiev and Callum Smith.
Men’s college basketball games on tap include top-ranked Purdue hosting Penn State on BTN, second-ranked Houston facing TCU on ESPN, third-ranked Kansas hosting Oklahoma on the Big12 Network, and fifth-ranked Tennessee batting Georgia on ESPN2. On Sunday, fourth-ranked UConn meets Big East rival Georgetown on Fox.
Fox will give Iowa women’s hoops star Caitlin Clark a primetime showcase on Saturday night when the No. 3 Hawkeyes take on Indiana. Also on the women’s hardcourt, Baylor meets Iowa State on Saturday (ESPN Plus); fifth-ranked Colorado plays Stanford on Sunday (Pac-12 Network) and top-ranked South Carolina hosts Kentucky on Monday (SEC Network).
In the NBA, TNT on Monday will televise the Golden State Warriors-Memphis Grizzlies game.
On the tennis court, ESPN2 will offer early-round coverage of the Australian Open, while on the bowling lanes, Fox on Monday will televise the PBA Tour’s Players Championship.
