{"id":314414,"date":"2026-05-13T23:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/314414\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T23:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:07:15","slug":"san-francisco-49ers-favorable-2026-schedule-just-got-a-lot-more-difficult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/314414\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco 49ers’ favorable 2026 schedule just got a lot more difficult"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Francisco 49ers’ favorable 2026 schedule just got a lot more difficult<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

By all accounts, the San Francisco 49ers<\/a> have a favorable schedule during the 2026 season, but one aspect of it will make things more difficult.<\/p>\n

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According to Warren Sharp of Sharp Football Analysis<\/a>, the Niners have the eighth-easiest slate in the NFL based on win totals from Vegas oddsmakers, which is a superior method to using opponents’ 2025 win percentages.<\/p>\n

However, the difficult part of the schedule comes in all the traveling the Niners have to do.<\/p>\n

Bill Speros of Bookies.com crunched the number of travel miles<\/a> for each team in 2026 and San Francisco<\/a> leads the league with 38,105, which is a little over 3,000 miles more than the next closest team, the Los Angeles Rams<\/a> (34,857).<\/p>\n

Of course, the travel miles for the Niners and Rams are inflated by the 15,738-mile trip to Australia both teams will be making in Week 1.<\/p>\n

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But even if you take out that trek, the Niners would still be traveling 22,367 miles, which would amount to the seventh-most in the NFL.<\/p>\n

San Francisco will also be smashing an NFL record in 2026. Speros notes that the Niners will cross a whopping 58 time zones, breaking the all-time mark of 42, a record set by the Los Angeles Chargers<\/a> in 2025.<\/p>\n

As compared to the least traveled team in the NFL for 2026, the Carolina Panthers<\/a> (8,740 miles), who will travel a little over half of the amount of miles the Niners will for their trip to Australia alone, San Fran is traveling over four times the mileage Carolina will.<\/p>\n

The Niners are obviously no strangers to traveling a bunch during an NFL season.<\/p>\n

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This is pretty much standard for a team on the west coast. In 2025, four of the top 10 most-traveled teams were teams from that area of the country, and the Niners were included in that group.<\/p>\n

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