Countdown to Kickoff: Less than 26 days until the NFL’s preseason Hall of Fame game Jaguars-Raiders

With less than 26 days until the first game of the National Football League preseason, it is now time to begin the countdown to kickoff of the 2022-2023 NFL season. Each day for the next 26 days, I will write a story featuring each matchup for that week’s scheduled NFL games. I may also offer my predictions on who will win for each game.

By: Evan Troxel

The National Football League’s 2022 annual preseason Hall of Fame Game will take place on Thursday, August 4th, 2022 between the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Las Vegas Raiders.

The game will take place at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton, Ohio, and starts at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time and will be televised on NBC.

The Raiders are locked in as the home team for this game.

By all accounts, it appears that this will be the first all-time meeting in preseason history (and in franchise history) between the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Las Vegas Raiders.

Jacksonville leads the regular season all-time series 5-4.

In their last meeting, the Jaguars won on December 15th, 2019, 20-16 at the then Oakland Raiders. That game was the last NFL game played in Oakland.

Jacksonville is on a one-game winning streak against the Raiders and the then Oakland Raiders won the previous three regular season games.

Both teams have also never played each other in the playoffs before.

In the only previous appearance in the preseason Hall of Fame game for the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Carolina Panthers (the road team) defeated the Jacksonville Jaguars 20-14 in the Hall of Fame game on Saturday, July 29th, 1995.

Meanwhile, the Raiders have played in the Hall of Fame game three times previously and won all three games.

They won as the Oakland Raiders on July 28th, 1979 in which they defeated the Dallas Cowboys 20-13.

Then on July 31st, 1993, they defeated the Green Bay Packers 19-3 as the Los Angeles Raiders.

In their only Hall of Fame game as the road team, the Oakland Raiders defeated the Philadelphia Eagles 16-10 on August 6th, 2006.

In the 2021 regular season, Jacksonville went 3-14 while Las Vegas won ten games and lost seven games.

The Jaguars lost their first ever meeting against the Raiders, but then the Jaguars won the next four games against the Raiders.

The Raiders are 3-3 all-time as the home team against the Jaguars.

Based on everything that has already happened, I think the Las Vegas Raiders are going to win this preseason game.

The only reason to pick Jacksonville to win this game is because they won the last matchup these two teams played against each other and they have never had just a one-game winning streak against the Raiders yet (it has always been a longer winning streak than that).

Next scheduled post: 2022-2023 NFL Preseason Week 1 Sunday, July 10th at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time (or whenever I get it done)