2020 Baltimore Ravens Schedule

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Preseason

DATE TBA – Buffalo, TIME TBA (WBAL-TV, Channel 11)
DATE TBA – at Dallas, TME TBA, (WBAL-TV, Channel 11)
Sun., Aug. 30 – Carolina, TIME TBA (WBAL-TV, Channel 11)
DATE TBA – at Washington, TIME TBA (WBAL-TV, Channel 11)

Regular Season

Sun., Sept. 13 – Cleveland, 1, CBS
Sun., Sept. 20 – at Houston, 4:25, CBS
Mon., Sept. 28 – Kansas City, 8:15, ESPN
Sun., Oct. 4 – at Washington 1, CGS
x-Sun., Oct. 11 – Cincinnati, 1, CBS
x-Sun., Oct. 18 – at Philadelphia, 1, CBS
x-Sun., Oct. 25 – Pittsburgh, 1, CBS
Sun., Nov. 1 – BYE WEEK
x-Sun., Nov. 8 – at Indianapolis, 1, CBS
x-Sun., Nov. 15 – at New England, 8:30, NBC
x-Sun., Nov. 22 – Tennessee, 1, CBS
Thurs., Nov. 26 – at Pittsburgh, 8:20, NBC
Thurs., Dec. 3 – Dallas, 8:30, Fox
Mon., Dec. 14 – at Cleveland, 8:15, ESPN
x-Sun., Dec. 20 – Jacksonville, 1, CBS
x-Sun., Dec. 27 – New York Giants, 1, Fox
x-Sun., Jan. 3 – at Cincinnati, 1, CBS

x – game times subject to change due to flexible scheduling

Postseason

Jan. 9-10 – Wild Card Weekend, date/time TBA (ESPN, NBC, CBS, Fox)
Jan. 16-17 – Divisional Playoffs, date/time TBA (NBC, CBS, Fox)
Jan. 24 – AFC Championship Game, 6:40 p.m. (CBS)
Sun., Feb. 7 – SUPER BOWL 55; AFC champion vs. NFC champion; Raymond James Stadium; Tampa; 6:30 p.m. (CBS)

NOTES: The Ravens will have just five games against teams that had winning records in 2019, as well as five games against 2019 playoff teams. The team will play 15 of its 16 games in the Eastern time zone; Houston is the exception.

This year, the Ravens will not play any games against teams coming out of their bye weeks. Last year, the Ravens played Cincinnati and Houston in consecutive weeks when both teams were coming off their byes. Baltimore won both games as part of a club-record 12-game winning streak.

The Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers will meet just before both teams’ mutual Nov. 1 bye. Cleveland and Cincinnati are off the following week, Nov. 8.

The Ravens are playing five prime-time games, the maximum allowable for each team. Contrary to popular belief, games that begin at 4:25 pm do no count as a prime-time game. This stat is subject to change due to flexible scheduling.

The Thanksgiving night game at Pittsburgh is the Ravens’ first road Turkey Day game in three appearances on that holiday, and the first road game on the holiday by a Baltimore team since the Colts’ trip to Detroit in 1965.

For only the second time in team history, the Ravens are playing all their return division games on the road. The first time it happened, in 2009, Baltimore lost two of the three games but made the playoffs as a wild-card team.

Using the 2019 records of the team’s 2020 opponents, Baltimore has the NFL’s easiest schedule in 2020–a distinction it has never held. That could change, depending on how the 2020 season plays out and that season’s figures are used instead of those from 2019.

The two placement games are determined by a team’s finish during the previous season. The Ravens finished first in the AFC North in 2019. Placement opponents are defined as those who had the same finish in the standings as did the Ravens in divisions from the same conference the Ravens aren’t already playing in their entirety in the coming year. That places New England and Kansas City on the schedule.

Per the league schedule rotation, the Ravens are playing the entire AFC South and NFC East in 2020…

The Ravens have never won a regular-season game in New England, Philadelphia, or Indianapolis–all cities to which they will travel in 2020. In 2019, they got their first-ever wins in Buffalo, Seattle, and at the Los Angeles Coliseum.

About Joe Platania

Veteran Ravens correspondent Joe Platania is in his 45th year in sports media (including two CFL seasons when Batlimore had a CFL team) in a career that extends across parts of six decades. Platania covers sports with insight, humor, and a highly prescient eye, and that is why he has made his mark on television, radio, print, online, and in the podcast world. He can be heard frequently on WJZ-FM’s “Vinny And Haynie” show, alongside ex-Washington general manager Vinny Cerrato and Bob Haynie. A former longtime member in good standing of the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association and the Pro Football Writers of America, Platania manned the CFL Stallions beat for The Avenue Newspaper Group of Essex (1994 and ’95) and the Ravens beat since the team’s inception — one of only three local writers to do so — for PressBox, The Avenue, and other local publications and radio stations. A sought-after contributor and host on talk radio and TV, he made numerous appearances on “Inside PressBox” (10:30 a.m. Sundays), and he was heard weekly for eight seasons on the “Purple Pride Report,” WQLL-AM (1370). He has also appeared on WMAR-TV’s “Good Morning Maryland” (2009), Comcast SportsNet’s “Washington Post Live” (2004-06), and WJZ-TV’s “Football Talk” postgame show — with legend Marty Bass (2002-04). Platania is the only sports journalist in Maryland history to have been a finalist for both the annual Sportscaster of the Year award (1998, which he won) and Sportswriter of the Year (2010). He is also a four-time Maryland-Delaware-District of Columbia Press Association award winner. Platania is a graduate of St. Joseph’s (Cockeysville), Calvert Hall College High School, and Towson University, where he earned a degree in Mass Communications. He lives in Cockeysville, MD.



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