Five months after the start of the 2025 NFL season, the biggest event in American sports has defined its protagonists. Super Bowl LX, the grand finale of professional American football, will face the renewed New England Patriots, an old acquaintance of these instances, and the Seattle Seahawks, the team to beat this season and the favorites to lift the Vince Lombardi trophy. The new NFL champion will be decided this Sunday, February 8 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara (California), with Bad Bunny’s show as the main halftime act.
What time is the 2026 Super Bowl and where to watch it in Mexico
The opening ceremony starts at 5:00 p.m. and will feature the participation of the Californian punk-rock band Green Day, followed by the American national anthem, which in this edition will be performed by singer-songwriter and producer Charlie Puth. After the anthem, Brandi Carlile will sing America The Beautifulwhile R&B star Coco Jones will do the same with Lift Every Voice and Singa theme adopted by the NFL after the events of racism and police brutality in 2020. With the teams already on the field, Super Bowl LX will officially begin at 5:30 p.m. with the kickoff.
In Mexico, the Super Bowl will be broadcast live on open television channels Channel 5 (Televisa) and Azteca 7 (TV Azteca). Cable television sports channels ESPN and Fox Sports will also broadcast the match. In addition, NFL Game Pass, the league’s official streaming service, will offer the duel live with the original American signal, which includes both commercials and the halftime show.
halftime show
Bad Bunny will be in charge of the halftime show. Despite the briefness of the presentation—about 13 to 15 minutes—it is the most watched moment of the broadcast with audience peaks reaching more than 130 million viewers. Although there is no specific time for the start of the show, Bad Bunny will take the stage set up in the center of the field at the end of the second quarter, at approximately 7:10 p.m. The Puerto Rican’s choice has been mired in controversy since Apple Music, organizer of the show, confirmed his participation last September, just as Bad Bunny was ending a historic 31-concert residency in Puerto Rico that consolidated his status as a global superstar and as the most listened to Latin American artist in the world.
The Super Bowl will mark Bad Bunny’s only presentation in the continental United States as part of his DeBÍ TIRAR MORE FOTOS World Tour through Latin America, Oceania, Asia and Europe without passing through the United States, a decision made by the artist in response to the policy of raids and mass detentions of migrants ordered by Donald Trump. Different US Government officials such as Kristi Noem, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, have responded to the singer in a threatening tone and have suggested a deployment of ICE at the Super Bowl, held in a State with a large presence of Latino migrants. The last friction occurred this Monday, after the publication of an interview in which Donald Trump assures that he will not attend the Super Bowl and considers that both Bad Bunny’s show and Green Day’s previous show are a “bad choice” that does nothing but “sow hatred.”
Who is the favorite to win the Super Bowl?
Once the conference champions who will star in the Super Bowl were defined, the betting houses opened with a slight advantage of 4.5 points for the Seattle Seahawks. The duel will also be a reissue of the 2015 Super Bowl, when the New England dynasty forged by the Brady-Belichick duo lifted its fourth Vince Lombardi trophy in a dramatic closing, remembered for Malcom Butler’s interception that sealed the title for the Pats and for the controversial decision by the Seattle offense to throw the ball just one yard short of the touchdown instead of giving it to Marshawn Lynch, their star running back.
