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<\/p>\nThe NFL released the regular season schedule for all 32 teams on Thursday night. Here’s a breakdown of Tampa Bay’s 18-game slate.<\/p>\n
TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The NFL released the full 2026 regular season schedule on Thursday night for all 32 teams \u2014 including the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Here’s a full breakdown of Tampa Bay’s 18-game slate.<\/p>\n
\nBucs season opener <\/p>\n
The Bucs will open the season at Paycor Stadium against the Cincinnati Bengals on Sept. 13. Both teams have played each other one time previously in Week 1 to kick off the 1980 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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While the Buccaneers have won five consecutive season openers \u2014 which currently stands tied with the Philadelphia Eagles for the longest active streak in the NFL \u2014 the 2026 season will mark the first time Tampa Bay has opened its season on the road against an AFC opponent since 2013.<\/p>\n
\nBucs home opener <\/p>\n
Tampa Bay’s home opener will coincide with the team’s longest homestand in Weeks 2-4, when the Buccaneers will host the Cleveland Browns (Sept. 20), Minnesota Vikings (Sept. 27) and the Green Bay Packers (Oct. 4) at Raymond James Stadium.<\/p>\n
\nPrimetime <\/p>\n
The Bucs will play three games under the bright lights in 2026. The first will be in Week 5 on Thursday, Oct. 8 against the Cowboys in Dallas. The team will also be on the road for their second primetime game, which will be on Sunday, Nov. 8 against the Chicago Bears.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The third primetime game will be at home, where the Bucs will take the field against the Carolina Panthers on Monday, Nov. 30.<\/p>\n
\nFull Buccaneers 2026 schedule <\/p>\n
WEEK 1 \u2014 Sept. 13 at Cincinnati Bengals<\/p>\n
WEEK 2 \u2014 Sept. 20 vs. Cleveland Browns (Airing on 10 Tampa Bay)<\/p>\n
WEEK 3 \u2014 Sept. 27 vs. Minnesota Vikings<\/p>\n
WEEK 4 \u2014 Oct. 4 vs. Green Bay Packers<\/p>\n
WEEK 5 \u2014 Oct. 8 at Dallas Cowboys<\/p>\n
WEEK 6 \u2014 Oct. 18 vs. Pittsburgh Steelers (Airing on 10 Tampa Bay)<\/p>\n
WEEK 7 \u2014 Oct. 25 at Carolina Panthers<\/p>\n
WEEK 8 \u2014 Nov. 1 vs. Atlanta Falcons<\/p>\n
WEEK 9 \u2014 Nov. 8 at Chicago Bears<\/p>\n
WEEK 11 \u2014 Nov. 22 at Detroit Lions (Airing on 10 Tampa Bay)<\/p>\n
WEEK 12 \u2014 Nov. 30 vs. Carolina Panthers<\/p>\n
WEEK 13 \u2014 Dec. 6 vs. Los Angeles Chargers (Airing on 10 Tampa Bay)<\/p>\n
WEEK 14 \u2014 Dec. 13 at Baltimore Ravens<\/p>\n
WEEK 15 \u2014 Dec. 20 vs. New Orleans Saints<\/p>\n
WEEK 16 \u2014 TBA at Atlanta Falcons<\/p>\n
WEEK 17 \u2014 Jan. 3 vs. Los Angeles Rams<\/p>\n
WEEK 18 \u2014 TBA at New Orleans Saints<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL released the regular season schedule for all 32 teams on Thursday night. Here’s a breakdown of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-272224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}