{"id":703790,"date":"2026-01-25T11:34:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T11:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/703790\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T11:34:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T11:34:21","slug":"where-does-jaguars-2026-strength-of-schedule-rank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/703790\/","title":{"rendered":"Where does Jaguars&#8217; 2026 strength of schedule rank?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 24, 2026, 8:49 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\">Jacksonville Jaguars&#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 Jaguars, on paper anyway, they have one of the easier schedules in football. The combined winning percentage of the Jaguars&#8217; 2026 opponents is .467. By this metric, this is the ninth-easiest schedule in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Below is a look at who the Jaguars&#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 Jaguars&#8217; 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\">The Jaguars are coming off a 13-win season and have established a very strong foundation in Year 1 under Liam Coen that should provide this team with a jumping-off point heading into 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 24, 2026, 8:49 a.m. ET In a way too early look ahead to the 2026 NFL season,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2060],"tags":[95878,7,212,125,2401,213,6,31186,95933,95882,95898,96089,95913,95957,95886,95953,95903,95936,95935,95896,95891,95888,95895,95906,95902,95883,95889,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-703790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville-jaguars","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jacksonville","11":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","12":"tag-jacksonvillejaguars","13":"tag-jaguars","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnfljaguars","16":"tag-sstsnjaguars","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagbaltimore-ravens","19":"tag-tagchicago-bears","20":"tag-tagcincinnati-bengals","21":"tag-tagcleveland-browns","22":"tag-tagdenver-broncos","23":"tag-taghouston-texans","24":"tag-tagindianapolis-colts","25":"tag-tagjacksonville-jaguars","26":"tag-tagliam-coen","27":"tag-tagnational-sports","28":"tag-tagnew-york-giants","29":"tag-tagnfl","30":"tag-tagnfl-hub","31":"tag-tagoverall-positive","32":"tag-tagsport-scores-statistics","33":"tag-tagsports-news","34":"tag-tagtennessee-titans","35":"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\/703790","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=703790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}