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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant uncertainty about the upcoming National Football League season.

In a typical season, there would be 256 games played -- 16 games played between 32 teams over a 17-week period. As of June 25, the schedule released by the NFL includes all 256 games.

How many total games will be played in 2020-2021 regular season?

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• There is no fixed date where the final regular season game must be played by -- we will consider all non-postseason games to be 'regular season' games, regardless of date.

• If no games have been played by December 31, 2020, this question will resolve to 0.

• Partial games that are suspended mid-game and not resumed/played to completion will not be counted.

• The official source for the number of games played will be ESPN.

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