The three games on Tampa Bay’s 17-game schedule that were determined by matching division standings became a home date against the NFC East champion Philadelphia Eagles and road trips to play the NFC North-winning Detroit Lions and the AFC South-winning Houston Texans. The Buccaneers will also travel to play the Los Angeles Rams and Buffalo Bills, champions of the NFC West and AFC East, respectively. Tampa Bay’s final opponent wasn’t determined until Detroit beat Minnesota in Week 18 to win their division.<\/p>\n
That fleshes out a schedule that also includes the usual six intradivision games in the NFC South plus matchups with the four teams in the NFC West and the four teams in the AFC East.<\/p>\n
To be more specific, here are the opponents for the Bucs’ 17 regular season games in 2025:<\/p>\n
Arizona Cardinals
\nAtlanta Falcons
\nCarolina Panthers
\nNew England Patriots
\nNew Orleans Saints
\nNew York Jets
\nPhiladelphia Eagles
\nSan Francisco 49ers<\/p>\n
Atlanta Falcons
\nBuffalo Bills
\nCarolina Panthers
\nDetroit Lions
\nHouston Texans
\nLos Angeles Rams
\nMiami Dolphins
\nNew Orleans Saints
\nSeattle Seahawks<\/p>\n
The Buccaneers play nine games on the road in 2025 because it is the AFC’s turn to host all of the “17th games” that were added to the schedule in 2021. Each year, that game is an interconference matchup for every team with the two conferences alternating from year to year as the home teams. The Bucs’ 17th game is their matchup against the Texans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The three games on Tampa Bay’s 17-game schedule that were determined by matching division standings became a home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[146,113,2506,198,7,147,6,38570],"class_list":{"0":"post-195747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-lions","8":"tag-detroit","9":"tag-detroit-lions","10":"tag-detroitlions","11":"tag-featured","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-lions","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-week-18-2024-saints"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114828163646677595","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}