The complete 2026 slate with rest edges and schedule context, the 2025 ledger, and the franchise record since 1999 — every number computed from the bundled nflverse game log.
The Cleveland Browns enter 2026 off a 5–12 season. Their 2026 opponents went a combined 124–165 in 2025 (a .429 strength of schedule, 32 of 32 — the naive prior-year method, whose real forecast error is measured here). The calendar hands them a net rest differential of 0 days (16 of 32), with week 5 (+3), week 9 (-7), week 12 (+7), week 18 (-3); the bye falls in week 11, they play 1 Thursday game, and 2 of their final four games are divisional. The slate has 1 kickoff at 7 PM ET or later and a longest road stretch of 3 straight games. Rest-edge context lives in the schedule-quirks explainer; the division picture is in the AFC North preview.
Results fill in automatically as the bundled nflverse game log updates; until a game is played its result column shows a dash.
| Wk | Date | Opponent | Rest edge | Notes | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sep 13 | at Jacksonville Jaguars | — | — | — |
| 2 | Sep 20 | at Tampa Bay Buccaneers | — | — | — |
| 3 | Sep 27 | vs Carolina Panthers | — | — | — |
| 4 | Oct 1 | vs Pittsburgh Steelers | — | DIV Thu | — |
| 5 | Oct 11 | at New York Jets | +3 | — | — |
| 6 | Oct 18 | vs Baltimore Ravens | — | DIV | — |
| 7 | Oct 25 | at Tennessee Titans | — | — | — |
| 8 | Nov 1 | at Pittsburgh Steelers | — | DIV | — |
| 9 | Nov 8 | at New Orleans Saints | -7 | — | — |
| 10 | Nov 15 | vs Houston Texans | — | — | — |
| 12 | Nov 29 | vs Las Vegas Raiders | +7 | — | — |
| 13 | Dec 6 | vs Cincinnati Bengals | — | DIV | — |
| 14 | Dec 13 | vs Atlanta Falcons | — | — | — |
| 15 | Dec 20 | at New York Giants | — | — | — |
| 16 | Dec 27 | at Baltimore Ravens | — | DIV | — |
| 17 | Jan 3 | vs Indianapolis Colts | — | — | — |
| 18 | Jan 10 | at Cincinnati Bengals | -3 | DIV | — |
Final record 5–12, 279 points scored against 379 allowed (-100). Home 3–6, road 2–6. One-score games (decided by 8 or fewer): 3–6 — the split most likely to regress either way, per the Pythagorean explainer.
Across the 27 seasons in the bundled game log the franchise is 146–290–1 (.335). Best season in the window: 2020 (11–5); leanest: 2017 (0–16). Franchise moves are joined under the current code (CLE), so older seasons include predecessor cities where applicable.
Sources: nflverse public game log bundled at data/games.csv (schedule, rest, and results; retrieved August 2026 — in-season updates refresh this page's results column). No projections, no invented numbers: this page reports the schedule and the record, and links the analysis.