Each year, the NFL waits until the penultimate week of the regular season has been decided to set the final dates and times of the Week 18 slate to make sure the premier matchups get the better time slots.
This year, the final matchup of the 2023 regular season for the Miami Dolphins is a battle with the Buffalo Bills, and due to Miami’s loss and Buffalo’s win in Week 18, that game will decide the winner of the AFC East.
With all of the ramifications that will come from the meeting, the NFL has announced that the game will be played on Sunday night (January 7), at 8:25 p.m. ET at Hard Rock Stadium.
The winner of this game will host their first playoff game of the upcoming postseason, which, depending on the result of some other games, could be a third matchup between these two.