{"id":289290,"date":"2026-05-12T08:57:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/289290\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T08:57:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:57:34","slug":"giants-and-cowboys-to-face-off-in-week-1-on-sunday-night-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/289290\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants and Cowboys to face off in Week 1 on Sunday Night Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NFC East matchup will be the first time the Giants and Cowboys face off in Week 1 since 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to that, the two division foes went through a streak of opening the season against each other six times in an eight-year span (2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019).<\/p>\n<p>The Giants and Cowboys split their two matchups last season, with Dallas picking up a 40-37 overtime victory in the Week 2 contest at AT&amp;T Stadium. They met again in the season finale at MetLife Stadium, where Jaxson Dart accounted for 262 total yards (230 passing, 32 rushing) and two passing touchdowns on the way to a 34-17 victory.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the Giants&#8217; 2026 schedule is set to be released Thursday, May 14 (7:30 p.m. ET) on the Giants&#8217; website, app, and social media channels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFC East matchup will be the first time the Giants and Cowboys face off in Week 1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[105237,102,104,103,226],"class_list":["post-289290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-2026-schedule-release","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-homepage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}