The Super Bowl is in two weeks, and if you also enjoy sporting events with tail-wagging, toy-tugging and miniature limbs, you can watch good boys and girls face off in the 22nd Puppy Bowl.
Puppy Bowl XXII will showcase 150 pooches from 72 shelters — the biggest canine cohort yet — before the Super Bowl airs on Sunday, Feb. 8 at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT. The aggressively cute competitors will vie for the Lombarky trophy as part of either Team Ruff or Team Fluff. If the details of this dog-palooza have won you over, here’s how to watch the 2026 Puppy Bowl.
How to watch Puppy Bowl 2026
Puppy Bowl 2026 will begin at 2 pm ET/11 am PT on Sunday, Feb. 8 and will be simulcast across HBO Max, Discovery Plus, Discovery, Animal Planet, TBS and TruTV. A Puppy Combine pregame show will air at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT.
What to expect during Puppy Bowl 2026
The three-hour spectacle will include play-by-play commentary from sportscasters Steve Levy and Taylor Rooks, puppy cheer squads, adoptable animals and a halftime event focused on senior dogs. Team Oldies and Team Goldies will lend their paws to a first-ever exhibition game centered on older canines.
The 2026 Bowl will include 15 special needs pups. It will also highlight some furry athlete backstories, which includes a segment with Buffalo Bills wide receiver Khalil Shakir and Button, a Boston terrier-beagle included in the Puppy Bowl. Like last year, there will be a Puppy Combine pregame show, where 10 dogs will take part in practice drills in hopes of being the top pick in the Puppy Bowl draft.
There are three versions of HBO Max: Basic With Ads, which costs $11 per month or $110 per year, Standard, which costs $18.50 per month or $185 per year, and Premium, which costs $23 per month or $230 per year. You can opt for a bundle of HBO Max, Hulu and Disney Plus or a HBO Max student discount. Read our review of the streaming service here.
Outside of HBO Max, Discovery Plus is a way to stream content from brands like HGTV, Food Network, TLC, ID, Animal Planet and Discovery Channel. The service costs $6 per month with ads and $10 per month without ads.
Philo is a live TV streaming service that allows you to watch Discovery and Animal Planet, which will both have the Puppy Bowl. While it carries not as many channels as more expensive rivals such as YouTube TV, it does have Lifetime, TLC, Game Show Network, Hallmark Channel, A&E, AMC and more. A $33 per month Philo subscription also comes with access to ad-based HBO Max and Discovery Plus.
The live TV streamer Sling TV will grant you access to TBS regardless of whether you have the Orange plan, which costs $46, or the Blue plan, which costs up to $55, depending where you live. Blue also includes the Puppy Bowl-having channels Discovery and truTV.
