The Super Bowl is in two weeks, and should you additionally get pleasure from sporting occasions with tail-wagging, toy-tugging and miniature limbs, you’ll be able to watch good girls and boys face off within the twenty second Pet Bowl.
Pet Bowl XXII will showcase 150 pooches from 72 shelters — the most important canine cohort but — earlier than the Tremendous Bowl airs on Sunday, Feb. 8 at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT. The aggressively cute rivals will vie for the Lombarky trophy as a part of both Workforce Ruff or Workforce Fluff. If the small print of this dog-palooza have gained you over, this is easy methods to watch the 2026 Pet Bowl.
The way to watch Pet Bowl 2026
Pet Bowl 2026 will start at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT on Sunday, Feb. 8 and will likely be simulcast throughout HBO Max, Discovery Plus, Discovery, Animal Planet, TBS and TruTV. A Pet Mix pregame present will air at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT.
What to anticipate throughout Pet Bowl 2026
The three-hour spectacle will embody play-by-play commentary from sportscasters Steve Levy and Taylor Rooks, pet cheer squads, adoptable animals and a halftime occasion centered on senior canine. Workforce Oldies and Workforce Goldies will lend their paws to a first-ever exhibition recreation centered on older canines.
The 2026 Bowl will embody 15 particular wants pups. It can additionally spotlight some furry athlete backstories, which features a section with Buffalo Payments extensive receiver Khalil Shakir and Button, a Boston terrier-beagle included within the Pet Bowl. Like final 12 months, there will likely be a Pet Mix pregame present, the place 10 canine will participate in apply drills in hopes of being the highest choose within the Pet Bowl draft.
There are three variations of HBO Max: Fundamental With Adverts, which prices $11 per 30 days or $110 per 12 months, Normal, which prices $18.50 per 30 days or $185 per 12 months, and Premium, which prices $23 per 30 days or $230 per 12 months. You possibly can go for a bundle of HBO Max, Hulu and Disney Plus or a HBO Max student discount. Learn our evaluate of the streaming service here.
Outdoors of HBO Max, Discovery Plus is a approach to stream content material from manufacturers like HGTV, Meals Community, TLC, ID, Animal Planet and Discovery Channel. The service prices $6 per 30 days with adverts and $10 per 30 days with out adverts.
Philo is a dwell TV streaming service that means that you can watch Discovery and Animal Planet, which can each have the Pet Bowl. Whereas it carries not as many channels as dearer rivals resembling YouTube TV, it does have Lifetime, TLC, Recreation Present Community, Hallmark Channel, A&E, AMC and extra. A $33 per 30 days Philo subscription additionally comes with entry to ad-based HBO Max and Discovery Plus.
The dwell TV streamer Sling TV will grant you entry to TBS no matter whether or not you could have the Orange plan, which prices $46, or the Blue plan, which prices as much as $55, depending where you live. Blue additionally contains the Pet Bowl-having channels Discovery and truTV.
