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Patrick Mahomes and the Super Bowl champion Chiefs will open Week 1 with a rematch from the playoffs.

The Ravens will play at the Chiefs on Thursday, Sept. 5, in the first regular-season game of the 2024 season, the NFL announced on Monday.

The team Kansas City beat on the road in the AFC Championship Game to get to Super Bowl LVIII will be the opponent as the Ravens look to exact some revenge. The game will be broadcast on NBC and kick off on Thursday, Sept. 5, at 8:20 p.m. ET.

This game will be a rematch of the 2024 AFC Championship Game, in which the Kansas City Chiefs defeated Baltimore 17-10 on the road at M&T Bank Stadium. This was Patrick Mahomes’ second consecutive road playoff triumph, as he beat a Ravens team with the best regular-season record and the league MVP, Lamar Jackson.

The Ravens closed out the regular season at 13-4 to earn the AFC’s No. 1 seed entering the postseason.

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Following an 11-6 regular season, the Chiefs, who were ranked third in the conference, proved to be road warriors throughout the playoffs, defeating the Bills in Buffalo during the divisional round to advance to the AFC Championship in Baltimore. Against that Ravens defense, Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes completed 30 of his 39 passes for 241 yards and a score.

Patrick Mahomes And Kansas City Chiefs Have Dominate Record Against The Ravens Ahead Of NFL Season Opener

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The Chiefs, led by Mahomes, are 4-1 versus Lamar Jackson and the Ravens, via Football Database.

The Chiefs made it to their fourth Super Bowl appearance in the previous five seasons thanks to a solid offensive performance from Mahomes and Travis Kelce in the AFC Championship Game and a strong defensive effort from their colleagues to slow down Jackson.

The only victory Jackson has over the Chiefs came in 2021.

NFL Fans Are Losing Their Minds Over FOX’s Way-Too-Early Prediction For Super Bowl 59

Lombardi Trophy being held by Kansas City Chiefs.

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NFL fans had much to say after FOX Sports’ Dave Helman shared his way-too-early prediction for the Super Bowl 59 matchup and winner.

Super Bowl 59 will be held inside the New Orleans Saints’ home venue, the Caesars Superdome, on Feb. 9 next year. The Kansas City Chiefs, fresh off a second straight Super Bowl championship, will aim to become the first team to complete the three-peat.

On the latest edition of the “NFL on FOX Podcast”, Helman shared his early predictions for the 2024-25 postseason. Helman predicted that Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs’ will indeed pull off the three-peat by defeating Jordan Love’s Green Bay Packers in the big dance:

 

And as you would have expected, Helman’s prediction led to a plethora of interesting responses from fans on X/Twitter:

The Packers were one of the top surprises of the 2023 season, claiming the NFC’s final wild card spot with a 9-8 record in year one of the post-Aaron Rodgers era. After crushing the Dallas Cowboys in the opening round, Green Bay gave the top-seeded San Francisco 49ers a scare but fell 24-21 in the Divisional Round.

With Love asserting himself as the new franchise star QB in Titletown, the Packers should definitely be in the mix for a Super Bowl 59 championship in 2024.

The Super Bowl 59 Field Is Wide Open

The Chiefs are obviously the team to beat entering 2024, but the field is loaded with contenders who have a realistic shot at winning Super Bowl 59 in New Orleans.

In the NFC, the San Francisco 49ers, Detroit Lions and Philadelphia Eagles are all bonafide contenders. If Love builds off a career year, the Packers should also contend for the Lombardi Trophy.

It’s even more hectic in the AFC, where the Chiefs, Cincinnati Bengals, Baltimore Ravens, Cleveland Browns, Houston Texans, Buffalo Bills, Miami Dolphins and New York Jets all have legitimate shots of winning it all.