Chiefs-Raiders: How to watch Week 8 matchup

The Game

The Kansas City Chiefs and Las Vegas Raiders have been division rivals since the AFL was founded in 1960, when the two teams were formed in Dallas and Oakland to compete with the NFL’s Cowboys and 49ers. Their 128th regular-season matchup is set for Sunday at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. Kickoff is will be at 3:25 p.m. Arrowhead Time on CBS — locally on KCTV/5.

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Just as with the Los Angeles Chargers, this AFC West rivalry has had an entirely different character since head coach Andy Reid took over in Kansas City. Before 2013, the Chiefs held a slight 53-50-2 edge over the Raiders. Since Reid’s arrival, however, Las Vegas has won just four of 22 games.

The most recent was in the two teams’ second matchup of 2023, when the 6-8 Raiders handed the 9-5 Chiefs a 20-14 home loss on Christmas Day. While Kansas City held the upper hand throughout the game, the Raiders collected defensive scores on back-to-back plays in the second quarter, giving the Chiefs their fourth loss in six weeks.

“‘A lot of people would make excuses,” observed Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes the following Wednesday. “That’s why they don’t take that next step — or become better — because of it. When you look at the film — and you made a lot of mistakes that you can’t make in this league if you want to have success — you have to learn from them and get better from them.”

The Chiefs did just that, winning six straight games to win their second straight NFL championship, followed by six more wins to open 2024. Now they face the 2-5 Raiders at their house — and Kansas City offensive coordinator Matt Nagy believes he knows what to expect from them under head coach Antonio Pierce.

“This is a physical football team that flies around,” he said on Thursday. “They live on the personality of Coach Pierce. I think we understand (and know) that this is gonna be a fight. They’re physical and they do a lot of good things well, but [it’s a] division game too, right? That’s massive. So we remember a lot about [the Christmas loss], but we don’t want to make it too big of a moment. We think we have a good thing going. We want to just stay within what we’re doing.”

Nuts and bolts

• Location: Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas, Nevada (Indoor)
• Playing surface: Natural grass
• Game time: 3:25 p.m. Arrowhead Time, Sunday, October 27, 2024
• Matchup history: 71-54-2 Chiefs (regular season)
• Odds: Chiefs -9.5, per FanDuel Sportsbook
• Officials: Referee Adrian Hill (29), umpire Roy Ellison (81), down judge David Oliver (24), line judge Greg Bradley (98), field judge Tra Boger (23), side judge Clay Reynard (18), back judge Greg Steed (12), replay official Kevin Stine and replay assistant Desiree Abrams

• Television broadcast: with Kevin Harlan, Trent Green and Melanie Collins on KCTV (CBS/5-Kansas City), KLAS (CBS/8-Las Vegas) and CBS affiliates nationwide — see coverage map
• Online Stream: Fubo.TV, Paramount+
• Chiefs radio broadcast: with Mitch Holthus, Danan Hughes and Josh Klingler on KFNZ (96.5 FM and 610 AM-Kansas City), WDAF (106.5 FM-Kansas City), Chiefs Mobile App and Chiefs Radio Network affiliates
• Chiefs Spanish radio broadcast: with Oscar Monterroso, Hannah Bassham and Adan Manzano on the Audacy app (“Chiefs en Español”), KSSA (105.9 FM and 1470 AM-Graden City, Kansas), Chiefs Mobile App, Tico-Sports.com and NFL+
• Raiders radio broadcast: with Jason Horowitz and Lincoln Kennedy on KRLV (920 AM-Las Vegas), KOMP (92.3 FM-Las Vegas) and Raiders Radio Network affiliates
• SiriusXM broadcast: Channel 380
• Enemy SB Nation site: Silver and Black Pride
• X: Arrowhead Pride
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