{"id":788806,"date":"2026-05-11T13:27:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/788806\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T13:27:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:27:17","slug":"2026-nfl-schedule-dallas-cowboys-at-new-york-giants-is-week-1-sunday-night-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/788806\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NFL schedule: Dallas Cowboys at New York Giants is Week 1 Sunday night game"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK<\/strong> \u2013 The Dallas Cowboys<\/a> are set to visit the New York Giants<\/a> in the first Sunday night game of the 2026 NFL season on Sept. 13.<\/p>\n

The league on Monday announced the Week 1 matchup of NFC East rivals at the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The full schedule will be released Thursday with other games revealed in the coming days.<\/p>\n

This is the eighth time in the past 15 years the Cowboys and Giants are opening the season against each other.<\/p>\n

Dallas is always a national television draw as \u201cAmerica’s Team,\u201d and New York could get more prime time exposure with Super Bowl winner John Harbaugh<\/a> coaching and Jaxson Dart established as the franchise quarterback coming off his eventful rookie year. It is set to be Harbaugh’s Giants debut.<\/p>\n

If healthy, it would also be the first meaningful game between Dart and Dak Prescott. While each started the season finale on Jan. 4, the teams were eliminated from playoff contention by then.<\/p>\n

This also could be the NFL debuts for a pair of former Ohio State teammates<\/a>: Giants linebacker Arvell Reese, taken with the fifth pick, and Cowboys safety Caleb Downs, drafted not long after<\/a> at No. 11.<\/p>\n

Dallas at New York also means neither of those teams will be the visitor at Seattle on Wednesday night<\/a>, Sept. 9, when the defending champion Seahawks unveil their Super Bowl banner and kick off the season. Chicago, Arizona, Kansas City, the Los Angeles Chargers or a title-game rematch against New England are the remaining possibilities.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NFL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NFL<\/a><\/p>\n

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2013 The Dallas Cowboys are set to visit the New York Giants in the first Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":788807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,40676,13555,1596,12949,145208,62,358,3187,61,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-788806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-caleb-downs","10":"tag-dak-prescott","11":"tag-dallas","12":"tag-jaxson-dart","13":"tag-john-harbaugh","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-u-s-news","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116556178868611247","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}