Super Bowl LIV is over, but that doesn’t mean football has to stop. The inaugural XFL season has kicked off, restarting from its failed business almost 20 years ago.
Vince McMahon, WWE billionaire maestro and creator of XFL, hopes to join forces with XFL commissioner and league CEO Oliver Luck will help avoid the pitfalls that have condemned the professional development league there is almost two decades old. They successfully executed their project In late October, nearly 800 players launched their names in the pool. The XFL will play an average of two games a day – playing on Saturdays and Sundays – and the playoffs are expected to start in mid-April.
Here is an overview of the full schedule, as well as dozens of games that have been played, the dates and times for the playoffs and the XFL Championship.
Week 1
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D.C. Defenders 31, Seattle Dragons 19 |
Saturday February 8 |
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Houston Roughnecks 37, Los Angeles Wildcats 17 |
Saturday February 8 |
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New York Guardians 23, Tampa Bay Vipers 3 |
Sunday February 9 |
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St. Louis BattleHawks 15, Dallas Renegades 9 |
Sunday February 9 |
Week 2
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Defenders 27, Guardians 0 |
Saturday February 15 |
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Dragons 17, Vipers 9 |
Saturday February 15 |
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Renegades 25, Wildcats 18 |
Sunday February 16 |
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Roughnecks 28, BattleHawks 24 |
Sunday February 16 |
Week 3
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Roughnecks 34, Vipers 27 |
Saturday February 22 |
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Renegades 24, Dragons 12 |
Saturday February 22 |
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BattleHawks 29, Guardians 9 |
Sunday February 23 |
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Wildcats 39, Defenders 9 |
Sunday February 23 |
Week 4
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Goalkeepers 17, Wildcats 14 |
Saturday February 29 |
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BattleHawks 23, Dragons 16 |
Saturday, February 29 (5 p.m. ET) |
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Roughnecks at Renegades |
Sunday, March 1 (4 p.m. ET) |
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Defenders at Vipers |
Sunday, March 1 (7 p.m. ET) |
Week 5
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Dragons at Roughnecks |
Saturday, March 7 (2 p.m. ET) |
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Guardians at Renegades |
Saturday, March 7 (5 p.m. ET) |
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BattleHawks at Defenders |
Sunday, March 8 (3 p.m. ET) |
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Vipers at Wildcats |
Sunday, March 8 (9 p.m. ET) |
Week 6
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Roughnecks at Guardians |
Saturday, March 14 (2 p.m. ET) |
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BattleHawks at Vipers |
Saturday, March 14 (5 p.m. ET) |
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Renegades at Defenders |
Sunday, March 15 (4 p.m. ET) |
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Wildcats at Dragons |
Sunday, March 15 (7 p.m. ET) |
Week 7
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Renegades at Vipers |
Saturday, March 21 (2 p.m. ET) |
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Wildcats on BattleHawks |
Saturday, March 21 (5 p.m. ET) |
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Guardians at Dragons |
Sunday, March 22 (3 p.m. ET) |
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Defenders at Roughnecks |
Sunday, March 22 (6 p.m. ET) |
Week 8
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Vipers at Defenders |
Saturday, March 28 (2 p.m. ET) |
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BattleHawks at Guardians |
Saturday, March 28 (5 p.m. ET) |
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Roughnecks at Wildcats |
Sunday, March 29 (3 p.m. ET) |
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Dragons at Renegades |
Sunday, March 29 (6 p.m. ET) |
Week 9
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Renegades in Roughnecks |
Thursday, April 2 (8 p.m. ET) |
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Defenders at Guardians |
Saturday, April 4 (2 p.m. ET) |
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Vipers at BattleHawks |
Sunday, April 5 (12:00 p.m. ET) |
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Dragons at Wildcats |
Sunday, April 5 (6 p.m. ET) |
Week 10
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Wildcats at Renegades |
Thursday, April 9 (8 p.m. ET) |
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Roughnecks at Dragons |
Saturday, April 11 (2 p.m. ET) |
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Defenders at BattleHawks |
Sunday, April 12 (3 p.m. ET) * |
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Guardians at Vipers |
Sunday, April 12 (6 p.m. ET) * |
Playoffs
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East No. 2 to East No. 1 |
Saturday, April 18 (3 p.m. ET) |
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West # 2 to West # 1 |
Sunday, April 19 (3 p.m. ET) |
Championship
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East vs West in Houston |
Sunday, April 26 (3 p.m. ET) |
It is essential to note that the schedules for the week 10 battles on Sunday are subject to change.
As you can see, the XFL is made up of eight teams that will compete on the weekend afternoon so that the right is the last to stand on April 26. The most discerning eye will notice that the season begins immediately after Super Bowl 54, which affirms their reluctance to face the juggernaut that is the NFL. Their will be a week off between playoffs and the championship, and it also coincides (or not so much) as to prevent a clash with the 2020 NFL draft in Las Vegas – which will take place from April 23 to 25.
The XFL championship game will take place a day after the NFL draft closes, and it will be interesting to see how the performance of players in the former affects the scouts and general managers’ decisions regarding the latter. If there are outstanding veteran players in the XFL, this could prompt some NFL teams to think twice about the value they place on certain players and / or positions in the college prospect pool; and this could be particularly true in later cycles and free agency not written.
This is, of course, if the XFL can succeed the season without suffering the same fate as the AAF.
To their credit, although they only lasted one season in 2001, they played it until its conclusion, but hope that this time their stay will not be as short. And so on, the XFL is “back for the first time” on Saturday, February 8.
Football has no offseason in 2020.
