The full New York Giants’ 2025-2026 schedule. See it below, with some thoughts on key parts of it.

Rough way to start

The Giants won’t have an easy start to the season. The Giants start the season with back-to-back road games against NFC East rivals, first the Washington Commanders and then the Dallas Cowboys.

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Things don’t get easier when they return home. They open at home against the AFC champion Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday Night Football (Sept. 21, 8:20 p.m. ET, NBC), then face Justin Herbert and the Los Angeles Chargers.

A mile high reunion

The Giants will face the Philadelphia Eagles at home in Week 6 on Thursday Night Football. That will, reportedly, be followed by a trip out to face the Denver Broncos in Week 7. While the Steelers played the Broncos last year, it was while Russell Wilson was still recovering from injury. So this will mark the first reunion — or perhaps “showdown” — between Wilson and Sean Payton since their ill-fated stint together.

These two back-to-back games will also be a brutal test of the Giants’ belief that their offense is just a quarterback away. The Eagles and Broncos were the top two defenses in yards per play, as well as the second and third teams in points allowed, last year.

Closer against the Cowboys

As usual, the Giants will reportedly finish the season with an NFC East game. This one is against the Dallas Cowboys.

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Will this game be meaningful to the Giants in the standings? Will Dart be the starting quarterback? Will there be planes circling MetLife Stadium with messages for co-owner John Mara? Will this be Brian Daboll’s final game as Giants’ head coach?

So many questions.

Flex scheduling rules

Sunday Night Football: Allowed up to twice between Weeks 5-10; any week during Weeks 11-17.

Monday Night Football: May be used any week in Weeks 12-17.

Thursday Night Football: Allowed up to twice between Weeks 13-17.

Sunday afternoon: Games may also be moved between 1:00 p.m. and 4:05 p.m. or 4:25 p.m. ET, as well as moved to Sunday night, Monday night, or Thursday night.

Week 18: the scheduling of the Saturday, Sunday afternoon, and the Sunday night games will be announced at the conclusion of Week 17

Flex timing, per NFL.com:

For Sunday Night Football in Weeks 5-13 and for Monday Night Football in Weeks 12-17, the NFL will decide and announce no later than 12 days in advance of the game, which game will be played on Sunday night and which game will be played on Monday night.

For Sunday Night Football in Weeks 14-17, the flexible scheduling decision will generally be made no later than 6 days prior to the game.

For Thursday Night Football in Weeks 13-17, the flexible scheduling decision will generally be made no later than 21 days prior to the game.

International games

After playing in Germany last season, the Giants will stay on U.S. soil this time.

Giants’ 2025 schedulePreseason

Pre 1: @ Bills (Date & Time TBD)
Pre 2: Jets (Saturday, Aug. 16, 7 p.m.)
Pre 3: Patriots (Thursday, Aug. 21, 8 p.m.)

Regular season

Week 1 (Sept. 7, 1 p.m.) — at Washington Commanders
Week 2 (Sept. 14, 1 p.m.) — at Dallas Cowboys
Week 3 (Sunday, Sept. 21, 8: 20 p.m., NBC) — vs. Kansas City Chiefs
Week 4 (Sunday, Sept. 28, 1 p.m.) — vs. Los Angeles Chargers
Week 5 (Sunday, Oct. 5, 1 p.m.) — at New Orleans Saints
Week 6 — (Thursday, Oct. 9, 8:15 p.m., Amazon Prime Video) — vs. Philadelphia Eagles
Week 7 (Sunday, Oct. 19) — at Denver Broncos, 4 p.m.
Week 8 (Sunday, Oct. 26) — at Philadelphia Eagles
Week 9 (Sunday, Nov. 2) — vs. San Francisco 49ers, 1 p.m.
Week 10 (Sunday, Nov. 9) — at Chicago Bears, 1 p.m.
Week 11 (Sunday, Nov. 16 ) — vs. Green Bay Packers, 1 p.m.
Week 12 (Sunday, Nov. 23) — at Detroit Lions, 1 p.m.
Week 13 — (Monday, Dec. 1, 8:15 p.m., ESPN) — at New England Patriots
Week 14 — BYE
Week 15 — (Sunday, Dec. 14, 1 p.m.) — vs. Washington Commanders
Week 16 — (Sunday, Dec. 21, 1 p.m.) — vs. Minnesota Vikings
Week 17 (Saturday, Dec. 27, TBD) — at Las Vegas Raiders
Week 18 (Sunday, Jan. 4, TBD) — vs. Dallas Cowboys

Expected win total

Entering the schedule release, FanDuel has the over/under for Giants’ victories in the 2025-26 season at 5.5.

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Here are odds from FanDuel at a variety of win totals:

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