Bowman Football Releases Today, Plus Allen & Ginter and Upper Deck Series 1 Next Week

Bowman Football Is Here

2026 Bowman Football goes on sale September 30 through Topps at noon ET, mixing NFL players and college prospects in one set. It headlines a release calendar that runs through October 13.

2026 Bowman Football at a Glance

• Checklist: 200 NFL cards plus 200 Bowman Prospect cards.
• Hobby box: 20 packs of 8 cards with 2 autographs.
• Jumbo box: 4 autographs.
• Chases: Chrome rookie autographs, Future Script signatures and 1955 All American variations.

Coming October 7

• 2026 Topps Allen & Ginter Baseball: a 300-card set mixing ballplayers with entertainers. Hobby boxes have 24 packs of 8 cards and 2 autographs, relics or Rip Cards. New inserts include Wicked Power and Mini Musical Methods, and cut signatures include Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Willie Mays and Abraham Lincoln.
• 2026-27 Upper Deck Series 1 Hockey: the first 250 cards of the flagship set, with about 6 Young Guns rookies per hobby box. The class includes Anton Frondell, James Hagens, Porter Martone, Konsta Helenius, Cole Hutson and David Reinbacher.
• 2026 Leaf City of Champions also lands that day.

Coming October 9

2026 Leaf Football includes college players and former pros such as Bo Jackson, with 6 packs of 8 cards per box at roughly $200. Signers include CJ Carr, Bo Jackson and Makai Lemon, and Malachi Toney autographs are numbered to 99.

Also Releasing September 30

Other listings for the week include 2026 Pulse Big League Chew Baseball, 2026 Topps Chrome Tennis and 2025-26 Upper Deck Team USA Juniors Hockey. Prizm WNBA and Splendor Hockey are also listed for the same date, and we covered them earlier this week.

Buying Tips

Release dates and box contents can shift, so confirm with your shop or the manufacturer. A local shop can often tell you whether a release is arriving and whether there will be an allocation.

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