{"id":28161,"date":"2025-05-06T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/28161\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T11:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T11:00:10","slug":"where-do-indianapolis-colts-rank-in-2025-nfl-strength-of-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/28161\/","title":{"rendered":"Where do Indianapolis Colts rank in 2025 NFL strength of schedule?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How does the <a href=\"https:\/\/coltswire.usatoday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Indianapolis Colts&#039;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Indianapolis Colts&#8217;<\/a> strength of schedule for the 2025 season compare to the rest of the NFL?<\/p>\n<p>With Las Vegas oddsmakers now having projected win totals for each team, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sharpfootballanalysis.com\/analysis\/nfl-strength-of-schedule\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sharp Football;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sharp Football <\/a>was able to calculate the strength of schedule for all 32 teams.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Colts would come in at No. 12 on this list, right above the line that Sharp Football called &#8220;easier than average.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Below is a look at who the Colts&#8217; home and road opponents are this season:<\/p>\n<p>The Colts will face seven playoff teams from the 2024 season, and five of those games will come on the road.<\/p>\n<p>Going beyond who the Colts play, other elements that can impact the difficulty of a schedule include any extended home or road stretches, multiple games in a row against top-tier opponents, when the bye week is, and how many miles over the course of the season the Colts will be traveling.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The teams with the easiest strength of schedule include San Francisco at No. 1, followed by New England and New Orleans. The teams with the most difficult schedules are the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-york-giants\/351\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York Giants;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">New York Giants<\/a>, followed by Cleveland and Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Colts Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/coltswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/colts\/2025\/05\/06\/where-do-indianapolis-colts-rank-in-2025-nfl-strength-of-schedule\/83470040007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:2025 NFL strength of schedule: Where do Indianapolis Colts rank?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">2025 NFL strength of schedule: Where do Indianapolis Colts rank?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How does the Indianapolis Colts&#8217; strength of schedule for the 2025 season compare to the rest of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[220,390,254,85,2005,258,146,7,253,2004,392,2381,125,110,7297,4099,1744,251,1167,896,56,6,57,261,11917,10736,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-28161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-arizona-cardinals","10":"tag-atlanta-falcons","11":"tag-cleveland","12":"tag-colts","13":"tag-denver-broncos","14":"tag-detroit","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-houston-texans","17":"tag-indianapolis","18":"tag-indianapolis-colts","19":"tag-indianapoliscolts","20":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","21":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","22":"tag-la-chargers","23":"tag-la-rams","24":"tag-las-vegas","25":"tag-miami-dolphins","26":"tag-new-england","27":"tag-new-orleans","28":"tag-new-york-giants","29":"tag-nfl","30":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","31":"tag-seattle-seahawks","32":"tag-sharp-football","33":"tag-strength-of-schedule","34":"tag-tennessee-titans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114460546122527819","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28161","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=28161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}