Las Vegas Raiders vs New England Patriots, Week 5 2026

Raiders vs Patriots kicks off at 1:00 PM ET on Sunday, October 11 at Gillette Stadium, and New England has picked this particular afternoon to honor Adam Vinatieri.

CBS has the broadcast. From the opening snap this page keeps itself current: live score, real time score, game leaders, box scores, play-by-play with the game flow chart and team statistics, every panel updating on its own without anyone hitting refresh.

Raiders vs Patriots also brings the two franchises together in a season when both are marking championship anniversaries, twenty-five years apart.

Raiders vs Patriots Start Time, TV Channel and Live Stream

CBS carries Raiders vs Patriots in the early window, which is the standard placement for a game between two AFC teams. The travel is the lopsided part: a 1:00 PM kickoff in Foxborough is a 10:00 AM start on Las Vegas body clocks, and the Raiders make that trip three times this season.

Adam Vinatieri, Twenty-Five Years On

The Patriots will mark Vinatieri's induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame with a halftime ceremony, and they scheduled it for the same afternoon they celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Super Bowl XXXVI team.

The opponent is not a coincidence anyone in New England will need explained. The run to that title went through Oakland in January 2002, in a snowstorm, in a game remembered for a fumble that a referee decided was not a fumble. Vinatieri then kicked a forty-five yard field goal through falling snow to tie it, and won it in overtime. Two games later he kicked the one that ended Super Bowl XXXVI as time expired.

There is one more layer. Mike Vrabel, who coaches this team now, played linebacker on that Super Bowl XXXVI roster. Raiders vs Patriots puts the head coach on the sideline for a ceremony honoring a championship he won as a player, against the club New England had to beat to get there.

Las Vegas Brought a Veteran and a Heisman Winner

The Raiders held the first pick in the draft and used it on Fernando Mendoza, who arrived with about as much college resume as a quarterback can carry. He led Indiana to the first undefeated season and national championship in the program's history, led the country with forty-one passing touchdowns, completed seventy-two percent of his throws and won the Heisman Trophy.

He is not starting. Klint Kubiak settled that early: "When we go out to practice, Kirk Cousins is the starting quarterback. He's the guy, and he deserves it because he's played really good football." Cousins signed in free agency, is a four-time Pro Bowler, sits in the top six among active quarterbacks in both passing yards and passing touchdowns, and spent three seasons working with Kubiak in Minnesota. Aidan O'Connell is behind them both, and Kubiak has asked all of them to push.

The one thing to watch before Raiders vs Patriots is Ashton Jeanty, who left a late-August practice after landing awkwardly reaching for a pass. Kubiak said afterward that the running back is on the mend.

Raiders vs Patriots: Fifty Years and Twenty-Five

Both clubs spend this season looking backward at a trophy. New England is at twenty-five years from Super Bowl XXXVI, the win that started everything that followed. Las Vegas is at fifty from Super Bowl XI, and is spending the year telling stories about the 1976 team.

New England has kept adjusting the present in the meantime. The Patriots traded receiver Kayshon Boutte to Houston in the final week of August, taking back safety Jaylen Reed and a draft pick, which is a roster move about depth rather than a statement. Drake Maye enters his third season with the offense built around him. Raiders vs Patriots is the sort of afternoon where the ceremony is the headline and the football underneath it is quietly important to both records.

Rosters are set. The cut to 53 passed on August 30. Follow the Raiders and Patriots pages, and check the NFL standings five weeks into the season. The rest of the slate sits on the 2026 NFL schedule.

The Museum Next to the Stadium

If a Hall of Fame ceremony sends anyone looking for the rest of the history, it is a short walk. The Patriots Hall of Fame presented by RTX sits at Patriot Place beside Gillette Stadium, open daily from ten in the morning until five in the afternoon, and it is a working museum rather than a trophy case bolted to a concourse.

All six Vince Lombardi trophies are on display there as part of the Super Bowl Experience exhibit, which is a strange and slightly overwhelming thing to stand in front of on the day the club is honoring the kicker who decided two of them. The building also runs school field trips, a summer reading challenge and a STEM teacher award, which is not what most people expect from a team museum.

The club's own inductions happen there too. Rob Gronkowski goes into the Patriots Hall of Fame on Saturday, November 7. Anyone building a day around Raiders vs Patriots can find admission and directions on the Patriots Hall of Fame site.

Raiders vs Patriots FAQ

Raiders vs Patriots is a ceremony, an anniversary and a football game, in that order for anyone old enough to remember the snow. Come back on game day for inactives and the live score.

Last updated: August 27, 2026