The season ended with the Detroit Lions' 26–7 victory over the New York Giants in the NFL Championship Game.
The standardization of the league's schedule was formalized the following year and has continued ever since, with the number of games being slowly increased to 14 by 1961, 16 by 1978, and 17 by 2021.
This marked the last season until 2023 that every team in one division finished with a winning record, in this case the NFL West.
With the loss of the Cincinnati franchise and its St. Louis successor at the end of the 1934 NFL season, the league stood with a total of just 9 teams, split into divisions of unequal sizes.
[1] In the Eastern Division, the key game took place on Thanksgiving Day at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, as the 5–4 Dodgers hosted the 6–3 Giants.