{"id":702782,"date":"2026-01-25T01:11:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T01:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/702782\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T01:11:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T01:11:19","slug":"colts-with-one-of-the-easier-schedules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/702782\/","title":{"rendered":"Colts with one of the easier schedules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated Jan. 24, 2026, 8:45 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In a way too early look ahead to the 2026 NFL season, how difficult is the<a href=\"\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\"> Indianapolis Colts&#8217;<\/a> schedule?<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">DraftKings recently compiled those rankings based on the 2025 winning percentage of each team&#8217;s opponents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">For the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/indianapolis-colts\/338\" data-autotag=\"d3fda36a-3eb5-4700-8763-caba831c06ae\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Colts<\/a>, on paper anyway, they have one of the easier schedules in football. The combined winning percentage of the Colts&#8217; 2026 opponents is .464. By this metric, this is the eighth easiest schedule in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Below is a look at who the Colts&#8217; 2026 opponents are.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Going beyond who the Colts opponents are, how the specific schedule shakes out can also impact how difficult the season ends up being, with long road trips, a lot of travel, and where the bye is located, all factoring in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">We also know that each season, teams that are projected to be good struggle, and there are a few that always surprise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Presumably, it&#8217;s now or never for the current iteration of this Colts team &#8212; although we&#8217;ve thought that before. A big reason that this team is back together again is because of the belief that the <a href=\"http:\/\/coltswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/colts\/2026\/01\/05\/why-carlie-irsay-gordon-indianapolis-colts-retained-gm-chris-ballard\/88037626007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">early-season success<\/a> the Colts had in 2025 is repeatable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Jan. 24, 2026, 8:45 a.m. ET In a way too early look ahead to the 2026 NFL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[95878,2005,7,2004,392,2381,6,49915,95900,95882,95898,95913,95957,95953,95903,95936,95951,95988,95896,95891,95888,95895,95906,95902,95883,95889,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-702782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-colts","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-indianapolis","12":"tag-indianapolis-colts","13":"tag-indianapoliscolts","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnflcolts","16":"tag-sstsncolts","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagbaltimore-ravens","19":"tag-tagcincinnati-bengals","20":"tag-tagcleveland-browns","21":"tag-taghouston-texans","22":"tag-tagindianapolis-colts","23":"tag-tagjacksonville-jaguars","24":"tag-tagmiami-dolphins","25":"tag-tagminnesota-vikings","26":"tag-tagnational-sports","27":"tag-tagnew-york-giants","28":"tag-tagnfl","29":"tag-tagnfl-hub","30":"tag-tagoverall-positive","31":"tag-tagsport-scores-statistics","32":"tag-tagsports-news","33":"tag-tagtennessee-titans","34":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702782","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=702782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}