{"id":663872,"date":"2026-05-11T12:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/663872\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:54:10","slug":"what-are-the-3-best-bills-games-ahead-of-2026-nfl-schedule-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/663872\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the 3 best Bills games ahead of 2026 NFL schedule release?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NFL is going to reveal the 2026 schedules for all 32 teams in the coming days. The league announced the slate will be released on Thursday.<\/p>\n

While every team has known their\u00a0opponents and locations<\/a>\u00a0for games in 2026 for months, the order is not yet set.<\/p>\n

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That coming intel will play a big part in terms of the importance and how attractive each game is from a fan perspective. But we still have most of the information relating to next season, so on paper, which outings for Buffalo<\/a> look like they will be the best games to come in 2026?<\/p>\n

Here is Bills Wire’s<\/a> ranking of the three best games on next season’s schedule:<\/p>\n

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Dec 14, 2025; Foxborough, Massachusetts, USA; New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye (10) meets Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen (17) on the field after the game at Gillette Stadium. Mandatory Credit: David Butler II-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

The Bills lost the AFC East for the first time in five years in 2025 as the Patriots won it. While these two teams will face off twice in 2026, as usual, let’s take the home game.<\/p>\n

Why? The Pats upset the Bills in this outing in Orchard Park last season on “Sunday Night Football.” It was Buffalo’s first loss of the campaign.<\/p>\n

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And you hate to admit it: The Patriots did make it to the Super Bowl…<\/p>\n

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Jan 12, 2025; Orchard Park, New York, USA; Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen (17) throws downfield as Denver Broncos linebacker Justin Strnad (40) defends during the third quarter in an AFC wild card game at Highmark Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Mark Konezny-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Easy enough choice. The Broncos knocked the Bills off during the postseason last season in this exact game which was also played in Denver. Revenge.<\/p>\n

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Nov 2, 2025; Orchard Park, New York, USA; Buffalo Bills running back James Cook III (4) runs with the ball in the second half against the Kansas City Chiefs at Highmark Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Mark Konezny-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Despite the sincere storylines against the Patriots and Broncos… it’s still the Chiefs and it’s once more quarterbacks Josh Allen<\/a> and Patrick Mahomes<\/a> dueling. Similar to Tom Brady<\/a> against Peyton Manning<\/a> once upon a time, this is one of the marquee games every year in the NFL.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Bills Wire: 2026 NFL schedule release: Naming the 3 best Bills games next season<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL is going to reveal the 2026 schedules for all 32 teams in the coming days. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,13246,320697,42498,1256,6580,1240,1231,593,6584,8109,85,19864,41710,30663],"class_list":["post-663872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bills","tag-bills-wire","tag-buffalo","tag-denver-broncos","tag-josh-allen","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-patrick-mahomes","tag-peyton-manning","tag-sports","tag-the-bills","tag-the-nfl","tag-tom-brady"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}