Nobody would have predicted the two teams that played in last January's NFC championship game would be under .500 after five weeks.
But that's where the Arizona Cardinals (2-3) and Carolina Panthers (1-4) find themselves. As a result, their Week 8 game in Charlotte has been removed as a nationally televised late-afternoon game.
The game scheduled for Oct. 30 was changed from a 4:25 p.m. ET kickoff to a 1 p.m. start, the NFL and Fox Sports announced Wednesday.
In a corresponding schedule change, Green Bay's game at Atlanta the same day was bumped from 1 p.