{"id":660140,"date":"2026-01-07T03:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T03:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/660140\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T03:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T03:57:13","slug":"2026-season-opponents-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/660140\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Season Opponents Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSONVILLE \u2013 The Jaguars&#8217; opponents for next season are set.<\/p>\n<p>The Jaguars in 2026 will play all four teams from the AFC North, all four teams from the NFC East and the first-place teams from the NFC North, AFC West and AFC East. NFL schedules are determined each season by a set, rotating formula \u2013 with teams playing an entire division from their own conference every three seasons and an entire division from the other conference every four seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The Jaguars also will play all three of their AFC South rivals \u2013 the Tennessee Titans, Indianapolis Colts and Houston Texans \u2013 in home and away games.<\/p>\n<p>The Jaguars&#8217; home opponents for 2026: Houston (12-5 in 2025), Indianapolis (8-9), Tennessee (3-14), the Cleveland Browns (5-12), the Pittsburgh Steelers (10-7), the Philadelphia Eagles (11-6), the Washington Commanders (5-12) and the New England Patriots (14-3).<\/p>\n<p>The Jaguars&#8217; away opponents for 2026: Tennessee, Indianapolis, Houston, the Baltimore Ravens (8-9), the Cincinnati Bengals (6-11), the Dallas Cowboys (7-9-1), the New York Giants (4-13), the Chicago Bears (11-6) and the Denver Broncos (14-3).<\/p>\n<p>The Jaguars&#8217; opponents include five 2025 division champions \u2013 Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, New England, Chicago and Denver \u2013 and one more playoff team: Houston.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL will announce the 2026 schedule later in the offseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE \u2013 The Jaguars&#8217; opponents for next season are set. The Jaguars in 2026 will play all four&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2060],"tags":[7,130,212,125,2401,213,134,131,36924,133,6,1918],"class_list":["post-660140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-football","tag-front-page-headline","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-jacksonvillejaguars","tag-jaguars","tag-john-oehser","tag-news-front-page-headline","tag-news-game-week","tag-news-jaguars-news","tag-nfl","tag-sponsor-dream-finders-homes"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115851810865920320","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660140","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=660140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}