{"id":227125,"date":"2026-05-11T12:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/227125\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:59:10","slug":"nfl-announces-cowboys-will-open-2026-season-at-the-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/227125\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL announces Cowboys will open 2026 season at the Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2026 season will bring a new chapter to the NFC East rivalry, as John Harbaugh takes over as the head coach of the New York Giants after 18 seasons, including a Super Bowl XLVII win, as the head coach of the Ravens.<\/p>\n

It’ll mark the beginning of the second year at the helm for Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer, who went 7-9-1 in his first year ever as a head coach in 2025 and 1-1 against the Giants.<\/p>\n

The second-most watched game in NFL regular season history is between the Cowboys and Giants, coming in 2022 on Thanksgiving where Dallas came away with a 28-20 win.<\/p>\n

In 2025, the Cowboys defeated New York 40-37 in a Week 2 overtime thriller and lost the season finale to the Giants 34-17.<\/p>\n

In 128 total matchups since 1960, the Cowboys lead the all-time series against the Giants with a 78-48-2 record and have 16 of their last 18 games against them.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys now know two games on their 2026 schedule, as Dallas will play the Baltimore Ravens in Week 3 for the NFL\u2019s first ever game in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<\/a><\/p>\n

The full schedule release for the Cowboys and the rest of the NFL will be announced on Thursday, May 14 at 7:00 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 season will bring a new chapter to the NFC East rivalry, as John Harbaugh takes over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[89175,9,11,10,40775,89174,89176,40777],"class_list":["post-227125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-featured-offseason-2026","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news-all-news","tag-news-breaking-news","tag-news-regular-season","tag-news-tommy-yarrish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}