Sunday Night Football schedule, TV channel, time, streaming information for Minnesota Vikings vs Dallas Cowboys NFL Week 15 game on Dec. 14, 2025.

Week 17 – vs Dallas Cowboys (Thursday, December 25th, 1 p.m., Christmas Day, Netflix)

Head to NBC and Peacock to watch the Vikings vs Cowboys game. Live coverage begins with Football Night In America at 7 PM ET.

The Minnesota Vikings severely damaged the Dallas Cowboys playoff hopes with a 34-26 win in Arlington on "Sunday Night Football." J.J. McCarthy now has back-to-back games with three total touchdowns,

Each conference will have seven playoff teams: four division winners (No. 1 through No. 4) and three at-large teams, called wild cards (No. 5 through No. 7). The division winners are ranked by best record to worst and will each host at least one playoff game.

NFL schedule set up perfect Buccaneers, Panthers finish for NFC South standings originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. The NFL schedule makers like to backlog the calendar with divisional matchups. But even then, there's no guarantee that those games will have any meaning.

This time, they watched those postseason hopes all but vanish. J.J. McCarthy threw for two touchdowns and ran for a score, C.J. Ham had the go-ahead TD on his first carry of the season and the Minnesota Vikings put Dallas on the brink of elimination with a 34-26 victory over the Cowboys on Sunday night.

The NFL set its Week 17 schedule by setting up a Saturday doubleheader that could have a significant impact on the playoff picture.