{"id":462275,"date":"2026-02-08T19:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T19:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/462275\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T19:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T19:09:11","slug":"ranking-every-nfl-team-including-bears-by-2026-strength-of-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/462275\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranking every NFL team (including Bears) by 2026 strength of schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/bearswire.usatoday.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chicago Bears;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Chicago Bears<\/a> concluded the 2025 season with an 11-6 record, where they went from worst to first, won the NFC North title and earned their first postseason win in 15 years in Ben Johnson&#8217;s first season as head coach. And now that the Bears have their head coach-quarterback duo in Johnson and Caleb Williams, the future is burning bright.<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead to the 2026 season, the Bears have the most difficult strength of schedule in the NFL (based on last year&#8217;s results). Their opponents had a win-loss percentage of .550 (which is actually easier than last year&#8217;s .567) and win-loss record of 158-129-2. Chicago will play eight games against playoff teams from last season and 11 games against teams that had a .500+ win percentage.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>So where does that rank among the rest of the league?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s every <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Ivan_Urena1\/status\/1876142264629740029\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NFL team&#039;s 2026 strength of schedule;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NFL team&#8217;s 2026 strength of schedule<\/a>, ranked most difficult to easiest, as the 2025 season comes to a close with Super Bowl LX.<\/p>\n<p>NFL 2026 strength of schedule<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">3. Arizona Cardinals (.538)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">3. Green Bay Packers (.538)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">5. Kansas City Chiefs (.536)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">6. New England Patriots (.531)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">7. Las Vegas Raiders (.529)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">9. Los Angeles Chargers (.522)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">10. Carolina Panthers (.521)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">11. Minnesota Vikings (.519)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">13. Los Angeles Rams (.516)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">14. Seattle Seahawks (.514)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">15. Denver Broncos (.512)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">16. Washington Commanders (.502)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">17. New York Giants (.498)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">18. San Francisco 49ers (.497)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">19. Pittsburgh Steelers (.495)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">20. Dallas Cowboys (.493)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">21. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (.491)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">22. Jacksonville Jaguars (.490)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">23. Philadelphia Eagles (.481)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">24. Baltimore Ravens (.479)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">25. Tennessee Titans (.476)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">26. Houston Texans (.474)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">28. Atlanta Falcons (.465)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">28. Indianapolis Colts (.465)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">30. Cincinnati Bengals (.450)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">31. New Orleans Saints (.434)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">32. Cleveland Browns (.429)<\/p>\n<p>Follow Bears Wire on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheBearsWire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheBearsWire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bearswireusat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Bears Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/bearswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bears\/2026\/02\/08\/nfl-2026-strength-of-schedule-ranking-bears\/88565998007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NFL 2026 strength of schedule: Ranking every team (including Bears);elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NFL 2026 strength of schedule: Ranking every team (including Bears)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Bears concluded the 2025 season with an 11-6 record, where they went from worst to first,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[1745,1766,1742,3165,1748,49,1755,48,1744,1735,1740,1724,1721,1743,3163,1730,1737,1732,1725,1727,1736,2210,1749,1720,1726,1718,1734,1728,1723,514,1747,949,948,1739,82,188918,1733,1741,1758,73249],"class_list":["post-462275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-ben-johnson","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-ca","tag-caleb-williams","tag-canada","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-chicago-bears","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-denver-broncos","tag-detroit-lions","tag-green-bay-packers","tag-houston-texans","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-las-vegas-raiders","tag-los-angeles-chargers","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-new-orleans-saints","tag-new-york-giants","tag-new-york-jets","tag-nfl","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-seattle-seahawks","tag-sports","tag-strength-of-schedule","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","tag-tennessee-titans","tag-washington-commanders","tag-win-percentage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}