The NFL has finalized its schedule for Week 17, and in a surprise it will not include a Sunday night game.

Instead, the Cincinnati Bengals-Baltimore Ravens, Buffalo Bills-Miami Dolphins and Jacksonville Jaguars-Tennessee Titans games were moved from the 1 p.m. ET time slot to 4:25 p.m. ET. All games still will be broadcast on CBS. The Carolina Panthers-Atlanta Falcons and New Orleans Saints-Tampa Bay Buccaneers games were moved from 1 p.m. ET to 4:25 p.m. ET, and will remain on FOX.

Also surprising is that NBC will not have an NFL game to broadcast in Week 17.

“We felt that both from a competitive standpoint and from a fan perspective, the most fair thing to do is to schedule all Week 17 games in either the 1 p.m. or 4:25 p.m. ET windows,” NFL senior vice president of broadcasting Howard Katz said in a league release. “This ensures that we do not have a matchup on Sunday Night Football on New Year’s Eve that because of earlier results has no playoff implications for one or both of the competing teams.”

This a break from tradition, as the league has typically placed a game with major playoff implications into the Sunday night prime-time TV slot. Going back to the 2003 season — when the league stopped doing Monday night games during the final regular-season week — every season had concluded with a Sunday night game.

Also, this will be the first time since 1977 that the NFL regular season won't end with a prime-time TV game. From 1978-2002, the NFL regular season concluded with a Monday Night Football game, and then a Sunday Night Football game from 2003-2016.

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The NFC South is the only division title that still has to be decided. A Saints win against the Buccaneers clinches New Orleans its first division title since 2011. A Saints loss and Panthers win earns Carolina — which already has earned a playoff berth — a division crown. The Panthers' Week 17 opponent, the Falcons, need a win or Seattle Seahawks loss to clinch a playoff berth.

The Bills are trying to end the NFL's longest playoff drought and make their first postseason appearance since 1999.

In 2006, Week 17 landed on Sunday, Dec. 31. That year, the Chicago Bears hosted the Green Bay Packers for a Sunday night game.

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