NFL planning 8 international games for 2025 UPD and more in 2026

[Summer Rose]

If the NFL thought they could make more money by hosting games in college stadiums a few times a year they'd have done it by now. As someone said up thread, gate revenue is actually a pretty small fraction of the NFL's total revenue. A bonus of that is that NFL tickets are actually pretty affordable despite it being a huge-revenue league (#1 league in the world if I recall).

The ticket prices if they hosted a game at a college stadium would have to be a significant, I mean significant markup in order for them to come out ahead as opposed to just a regular game at the team's normal stadium.

 

[Big Z Man 1990]

Bringing some top players back to the campuses where they once starred should be a huge selling point for the NFL to start staging games in college stadiums every year. Like my aforementioned proposal to have the Chargers play the Seahawks at Autzen Stadium in 2026 and in the process make it a homecoming for Chargers and former Oregon QB Justin Herbert.

Also, the Chiefs can play the Texans at Texas Tech in 2028, bringing Patrick Mahomes back to the campus where he became a star.

If the Bengals and Saints finish in the same position in their divisions in 2027, they would play the next season, and the NFL could take advantage by placing the game in Tiger Stadium on the LSU campus. Joe Burrow and Ja'Marr Chase of the Bengals were key contributors to the LSU team that won the national championship in 2019.