ARLINGTON, Texas (FOX 44) – Don’t plan to eat too much at your Thanksgiving dinner this year, or else you might sleep through one of the biggest matchups of the 2026 NFL regular season!
According to FOX Sports, the Dallas Cowboys will play host to the Philadelphia Eagles on Thanksgiving Day, November 26, on FOX and the FOX One app. The network announced this on Monday, adding a holiday bonus to one of the NFL’s best divisional rivalries.
The matchup should be among the most-watched NFL games this upcoming season, given the holiday window and the fact that it features two of the NFL’s most popular teams. But it should promise to be a thrilling battle between a recent Super Bowl champion and a playoff hopeful, as both games between the Eagles and Cowboys last season were decided by one score.
FOX Sports says Philadelphia is 6-1 all-time in Thanksgiving games, and that .857 winning percentage is the best among NFL teams with more than two such games in its team’s history. The Eagles haven’t played on Thanksgiving since 2015, though. That game featured their lone Thanksgiving loss, falling 45-14 to the Detroit Lions.
A year earlier, the Eagles played a Thanksgiving game against the Cowboys in Dallas, picking up a commanding 33-10 win. LeSean McCoy rushed for 159 yards and a touchdown that day, giving Philadelphia a one-game lead on Dallas in the NFC East. The two teams would meet again 17 days later, with Dallas winning the rematch. The Cowboys would win their last four games of the season and the Eagles would lose their next three, so it was Dallas that won the division at 12-4 and Philadelphia that missed the playoffs at 10-6.
FOX Sports says Dallas and Detroit are annual Thanksgiving hosts, and the Cowboys are 35-22-1 in their history on Thanksgiving — that’s a .612 winning percentage, compared to .571 overall in their history.
Meanwhile, the Cowboys have beaten the Eagles in seven of the last eight meetings in Arlington, with the lone Philadelphia win coming in 2024. Dallas has averaged a ridiculous 34.4 points per game in those seven wins. That’s pretty remarkable considering that the Eagles have given up 37 or more points just six times since December 2020, but four of those are against the Cowboys, and three of them were at AT&T Stadium.
FOX Sports says Prescott has played long enough that he has basically an entire season of games against the Eagles. He’s 10-5 against the Cowboys’ rival, with 3,944 passing yards, 26 touchdown passes and just nine interceptions. It’s reasonable to think Prescott will finish 2026 with the third-most career touchdowns of any NFL quarterback against the Eagles, passing Kirk Cousins (28) and trailing only Sonny Jurgensen (33) and Eli Manning (54).