In a similar move to 2016, Tirico filled in for Al Michaels on a few Sunday Night Football games during the 2020 season. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, NBC decided to give Michaels 3-5 “bye weeks”, in order to minimize travel. One of those weeks was due to Michaels failing to pass NBC’s COVID-19 protocols. He also worked one of NBC’s two Wild Card games, albeit remotely, also due to COVID-19 protocols. In addition, Tirico had planned to work NBC’s Thanksgiving game, but it was postponed to Sunday. Tirico then called the originally planned Sunday Night game with his Notre Dame Football on NBC colleagues. Michaels had planned to work the postponed game, but the former game was postponed again to Tuesday, so NBC kept Tirico on duty for the planned Sunday Night game, but also placed him back on duty for the game that was later postponed to Wednesday.