The Chicago Bears‘ Week 16 matchup in opposition to the Green Bay Packers lastly has a kickoff time. On Tuesday, the league introduced the Bears-Packers standalone recreation on Saturday, December twentieth, will start at 7:20 PM CT. Whereas the date for the sport had been identified ever because the schedule got here out, the time was TBD till now. The Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Commanders, the opposite standalone recreation that day, will happen within the earlier slot at 4 PM CT.
This would be the second of the 2 matchups between the Bears and Packers over the approaching weeks. Each groups are battling for the NFC North crown, and this will likely be a pivotal recreation that would resolve who takes the division. The Bears (9-3) presently maintain the highest spot in your entire NFC going into Week 14, whereas the Packers (8-3-1) are proper behind them within the division standings. Their first matchup takes place this Sunday at 3:25 PM CT, and they’ll meet again up two weeks later at Soldier Discipline.
The Bears and Packers aren’t any strangers to the prime-time highlight. From 2006 by way of 2022, these two groups had confronted off at the least as soon as a season in prime time. This would be the first prime-time matchup between the Bears and Packers at Soldier Discipline since Week 1 of the 2019 season.