Green Bay Packers vs Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Week 4 2026

Packers vs Buccaneers puts Jonathan Gannon's new Green Bay defense against a Tampa Bay offense playing its first season without Mike Evans. Two things that were fixtures a year ago are gone, and this is the first Sunday either replacement gets tested away from home comforts.

Kickoff is 1:00 PM ET on Sunday, October 4, on FOX. From the opening snap this page runs itself: live score, real time score, game leaders, box scores, play-by-play with the game flow chart and team statistics, every panel updating without anyone hitting refresh.

Packers vs Buccaneers is also Green Bay walking out of a Wisconsin autumn into Florida at one in the afternoon, which is its own kind of problem.

Packers vs Buccaneers Start Time, TV Channel and Live Stream

Date	Sunday, October 4, 2026
Kickoff	1:00 PM ET / 12:00 PM CT / 11:00 AM MT / 10:00 AM PT
TV	FOX
Venue	Raymond James Stadium, Tampa
Capacity	65,000, expandable to 75,000
Home team	Tampa Bay Buccaneers

FOX carries Packers vs Buccaneers in the early Sunday window, a regional assignment, so the market map decides and Sunday Ticket handles anyone outside it. Green Bay sits on Central time, which makes this a noon kickoff on the visitors' clock and the earlier of the two body clocks in the building.

Jonathan Gannon Runs the Green Bay Defense Now

Matt LaFleur named Gannon defensive coordinator on February 2, replacing Jeff Hafley after Hafley left to become head coach in Miami. Gannon, 43, arrived straight from three seasons as head coach of the Cardinals, and before that spent two years building one of the better defenses in the league in Philadelphia.

LaFleur's reasoning was personal in the useful sense. He had spent years game planning against Gannon's defenses, with the Eagles in 2022 and the Cardinals more recently, and did not enjoy it. Camp suggests the players agree. Jordan Love, now in his fourth year as the starter, said this defense has pushed the Green Bay offense harder than any he has faced in previous camps, and LaFleur has singled out Love's protection adjustments against Gannon's pressure looks.

Packers vs Buccaneers is week four of finding out whether that translates against somebody else's quarterback.

Tampa Bay's First Season Without Mike Evans

Evans left in free agency for San Francisco, which ends the longest run of production in franchise history and hands the receiver room to people who spent years working around him.

Chris Godwin Jr. is the senior figure, entering a tenth season with four 1,000 yard years behind him and, for once, a full healthy offseason. Emeka Egbuka moves into a defined role at the Z after a strong rookie year. Jalen McMillan is past the neck injury that ended his last season early, and third round rookie Ted Hurst gives Zac Robinson another body for the X. Baker Mayfield has spent camp saying the new offense is in a good place, which is what quarterbacks say, but the personnel puzzle underneath it is real.

Packers vs Buccaneers is an early look at who Mayfield actually trusts when the down matters.

Packers vs Buccaneers: Two Teams Rebuilding Opposite Sides

The symmetry is neat. Green Bay changed the voice running its defense and kept its offense largely intact around Love, Josh Jacobs, Matthew Golden and Jayden Reed. Tampa Bay changed the shape of its offense and kept Todd Bowles and a defense that has been adding pieces.

So Packers vs Buccaneers is a straight test of which rebuild is further along four weeks in, with neither side able to lean on last year's tape for much.

Rosters are set. The cut to 53 passed on August 30. Follow the Packers and Buccaneers pages, and check the NFL standings a month into the season. The rest of the slate sits on the 2026 NFL schedule.

A One O'Clock Kickoff in Tampa in October

The calendar says October. Tampa does not care. An early afternoon kickoff on the first Sunday of the month is still a hot, bright, humid football game, and the visiting team flying down from Wisconsin is the one that notices. Sun protection and water matter more here in Week 4 than they will anywhere else on the slate.

The building itself is older than it looks on television. Raymond James Stadium broke ground in 1996 and opened on September 20, 1998, when Tampa Bay hosted the Chicago Bears. It seats about 65,000 and expands to roughly 75,000 for the big events, and it is not the Buccaneers' alone: the University of South Florida plays its home games on the same field, which is why the turf gets more traffic than most NFL surfaces. The Tampa Sports Authority's stadium page covers the venue it owns and operates.

If you are heading to Packers vs Buccaneers, arrive early enough to find shade before kickoff rather than after it.

Packers vs Buccaneers FAQ

Packers vs Buccaneers is a new defense against a rebuilt receiving corps, in heat that will decide more of it than either coach would like. Come back on game day for inactives and the live score.

Last updated: August 27, 2026