Thanksgiving Week 2025 Sports on TV: What to Watch and When

It’s Thanksgiving week, which means travel, spending time with family and some time off from work. But what if you need to escape from your family for a little bit? What if you can’t take any more stories from your “wacky” Uncle Ted? What if you just need something to watch on TV? Luckily, there’s plenty to watch in the sports world throughout the week, including NFL games on Thursday and Friday and plenty of college hoops.

And don’t forget about all the great content on DraftKings Network, including The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz, All The Smoke, the Ross Tucker Football Podcast, Football America! and more!

DraftKings Network is your home for football talk on Thanksgiving Day leading up to kick off including:

• 11 a.m. ET: Football America!
• 12 p.m. ET: Ross Tucker Football Podcast

Then stay tuned for a Best from the Stash marathon from All The Smoke featuring football greats beginning at 3 p.m. ET on Thanksgiving — including Pat McAfee, Deion Sanders, Reggie Bush, Lawrence Taylor, Travis Kelce, Ricky Williams and Vernon Davis. Another Best from the Stash marathon will air beginning at 9 a.m. ET on Saturday morning.

Check out the full Thanksgiving week sports schedule below.

Monday, November 24

Feast week kicks off with plenty of college basketball, including the start of the second annual Players Era Festival on TNT and truTV and the Maui Invitational on ESPN’s family of networks. Of course, we can’t forget about Christian McCaffrey leading the 49ers as they welcome his former team, the Carolina Panthers, on Monday Night Football as well as an NBA doubleheader on Peacock.

Tuesday, November 25

We’ve got more college basketball, as the Players Era Festival and Maui Invitational roll on … including Kansas taking on Syracuse, St. John’s taking on Baylor and Houston taking on Tennessee. We’ve also got a full day on the pitch, with plenty of UEFA Champions League action on Paramount+, and then NBA Cup action on NBC/Peacock as the Magic take on the 76ers and the Lakers and Clippers square off in the battle of Los Angeles.

Wednesday, November 26

If you’re looking to have something playing in the background as you’re doing your Thanksgiving prep, there’s plenty of sports action to choose from. We’ve got college hoops in Vegas, Maui and the Bahamas, more UEFA soccer including several big names and an NBA Cup tripleheader on ESPN beginning at 5 p.m. ET.

Thursday, November 27

Thanksgiving Day may be a holiday, but that certainly doesn’t mean the world of sports is taking the day off. After you finish up with the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, you have plenty of sports to choose from. That includes our own Football America! and Ross Tucker Football Podcast beginning at 11 a.m., followed by a Best from the Stash marathon from All The Smoke beginning at 3 p.m. We’ve also got three NFL games on the docket, beginning wiht Packers-Lions at 1 p.m. ET, Chiefs-Cowboys at 4:30 and closing with Bengals-Ravens at 8:20. College hoops is working on the holiday as well, including a matchup between UNC and Michigan State at 4:30 and Duke and Arkansas at 8.

Friday, November 28

College football takes over to close out the holiday week, as we get multiple matchups on network TV throughout the day beginning at 12 p.m. ET. That includes Georgia taking on Georgia Tech at 3:30, as well as Texas facing Texas A&M and Indiana squaring off with Purdue at 7:30. On the pro gridiron, we’ve got a Black Friday showdown between the Bears and Eagles on Prime Video at 3 p.m. Moving to the hardwood, we’ve got the Battle 4 Atlantis title game in the college ranks and an NBA Cup doubleheader going down on Prime Video, including Luka Doncic taking on his former team.