Green Bay opens at Minnesota in the best game of the Sunday late window. Kickoff is 4:25 p.m. ET at U.S. Bank Stadium on CBS, and the Vikings are favored by just 1.5 in a division game the market sees as close to even.
What time is Packers vs Vikings, and what channel?
Sunday, September 13 at 4:25 p.m. ET on CBS, carried regionally, with streaming on Paramount Plus. Another network worth double checking: an NFC road team would normally be a FOX game, but the league assigned this one to CBS.
The matchup
This is one of the oldest rivalries in the league and the market cannot separate them. Minnesota is laying 1.5 with a moneyline of -118 against -102, which is roughly a 53 to 47 split. Opening a season with a division game indoors at U.S. Bank Stadium is about as difficult a road assignment as Green Bay could draw.
The 45.5 total sits right in the middle of the Week 1 board.
Prediction and odds
Packers +1.5. In a game the market has priced as a coin flip, taking the points with the road team in a rivalry that regularly ends on a field goal is the better value. Minnesota indoors is a real edge, just not a two point one.
Our pick: Vikings 24, Packers 23, Green Bay covers.
The bottom line
The best late window game of the opening Sunday. A tied-in-the-market division rivalry indoors, and the sort of game that decides an NFC North race in January.