Football Pools
Explore the most popular football pool games, including NFL Pick Em, NFL Survivor, NFL Maxout, and NFL Squares. Whether you’re running weekly office football pools or organizing season-long leagues with friends, Gridiron Games makes it easy to find the right format and run your pool online.
NFL Pick’em Pools
The most popular football pool. Each week, players select one team from every matchup. The player with the most correct picks wins the week. It’s simple, fun, and endlessly competitive.
NFL Survivor Pools
The ultimate knockout challenge. Each week, players pick one team to win. If their pick is correct, they advance. If not, they’re eliminated. The last player standing wins the pool.
NFL Maxout Pools
An exciting twist on Survivor. Each week, players pick one team and earn points equal to their score. A loss gets zero. The player with the most points at the end of the season wins the pool.
NFL Squares Pools
The classic party pool. Players pick squares on a 10×10 grid. At the end of each quarter, winners are determined by the last digit of each team’s score. It’s simple, social, and unpredictable.
Frequently Asked Questions
Football pools are social games where groups of players compete by picking NFL matchups throughout the season. Some football pool games focus on weekly picks, while others use season-long elimination rules or randomized grid-style boards. Online football pools are especially popular for offices, friend groups, fundraisers, and season-long NFL leagues.
Learning how to play NFL Pick’em is easy. Each week, players pick one team from every matchup and the player with the most correct picks wins the week. In addition to weekly winners, you can also track picks across the full NFL season and crown a season-long winner in your football Pick’em pool.
On Gridiron Games, you can fully customize your settings to match your favorite NFL Pick’em rules. Play with point spreads, confidence points, flexible pick deadlines, and custom tiebreakers to make the game more strategic and fun.
Learning how to play NFL Survivor is easy, but mastering it is the challenge. Each week, players pick one team they think will win, but the twist is you can only pick a team once per season. If your team wins, you survive. If they lose, you’re eliminated.
Most football Survivor pools end when a single player remains, but on Gridiron Games you can customize your NFL Survivor pool rules to play with double elimination or mulligans to keep things competitive all season long.
Learning how to play NFL Squares with friends, family, or coworkers is quick and easy. A standard football Squares pool uses a 10×10 grid, where each player picks one or more squares. Once all squares are filled, numbers 0–9 are randomly assigned to the rows and columns. At the end of each quarter, the last digit of each team’s score determines the winning square.
If you don’t want to run your pool online at Gridiron Games, we also offer free printable Super Bowl Squares templates for in-person parties or office events.
For most office football pools, NFL Pick’Em is the best place to start because it’s easy to understand and keeps everyone involved each week. NFL Survivor is another popular option for offices that want a season-long strategic format, while NFL Squares works well for simpler game-based fun that anyone can enjoy, regardless of their knowledge of football.
No. NFL football pools can work well for small groups, large offices, or fundraiser events of any size. Some formats, like NFL Pickem and NFL Survivor, are flexible enough to work with almost any group size.
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Players can join your NFL pools at any time from the Join Existing Pool page by entering your Pool ID and Password. If you want to invite players directly, you can send them your unique invite link or email them from the Members page of your pool.
Yes. If you’re not ready to run your pool online, visit our Football Templates page for free printable templates. We offer several options, including NFL Pick Em Weekly Pick Sheets, Super Bowl Squares Templates, and Super Bowl Bingo Cards.
These printable football templates are designed for NFL office pools, friend groups, Super Bowl parties, school events, and community fundraisers.