Last year, the San Francisco 49ers received six prime-time games during their campaign to Super Bowl LIV, which certainly wasn’t bad for a four-win team the previous season.
Granted, one of those was the regularly scheduled Thursday Night Football game, and the Niners also had a Saturday night game flexed in against the Los Angeles Rams in Week 16. But based solely off the previous year’s win-loss record, the 2019 49ers had it pretty good in terms of playing in front of a national audience.
In 2020, however, fans across the globe are expecting the defending NFC champions to be good, and the NFL rewarded those expectations for San Francisco as such.