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When Do the Cowboys Play the Commanders in 2026—and Where Can You Watch?

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The 2026 Cowboys–Commanders series has one fixed Week 2 listing and one Week 18 TBD. Here is how to separate the schedule answer from local viewing availability.

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The 2026 series has two separate schedule answers

The official 2026 schedules list two Cowboys–Commanders meetings. That matters because one game has a fixed kickoff and network, while the other still has an open date and time.

The Dallas Cowboys schedule and NFL team schedule list the Week 2 meeting as Washington at Dallas on Sunday, September 20, 2026, at 4:25 p.m. EDT on FOX. The Commanders’ official 2026 schedule also places it at AT&T Stadium.

Those details answer the basic when and scheduled-network questions. They do not, by themselves, answer whether FOX is available through a particular viewer’s local service.

Why Week 18 cannot be given a precise kickoff yet

The return meeting is Dallas at Washington in Week 18. The official schedules currently mark its date and time as TBD. That is not a missing detail to fill from a secondary listing: the confirmed answer is that the exact kickoff has not been published on those schedule pages.

A precise time—or a watch plan built around one—would go beyond the available official information.

How to check the local viewing answer

The NFL’s official Team Schedules & Where to Watch Every Game guide handles the part a static schedule cannot. It asks for a ZIP code and lets viewers select TV or streaming services, then uses that information to personalize game availability.

The useful order is simple:

  1. Use the team schedule to identify the meeting and its published kickoff or TBD status.
  2. Use the NFL guide with the viewer’s ZIP code and services to check market-specific availability.
  3. Recheck the guide once Week 18 receives a date and time.

This separates two questions that are often collapsed into one. FOX is the listed broadcast network for the Week 2 schedule entry. Local access is a separate lookup, and Week 18 cannot be treated as settled until the schedule supplies the missing date and time.

Bottom line

For 2026, the Cowboys and Commanders are scheduled to meet in Week 2 and Week 18. The Week 2 entry is Sunday, September 20, at 4:25 p.m. EDT on FOX in Dallas. The Week 18 return is at Washington, but its date and time remain TBD. For the practical where-to-watch answer, the NFL’s ZIP-code and service selector is the relevant final check—not a generic channel list.

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