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 Kansas City Chiefs enter 2026 off a 6–11 season. Their 2026 opponents went a combined 155–134 in 2025 (a .536 strength of schedule, 5 of 32 — the naive prior-year method, whose real forecast error is measured here). The calendar hands them a net rest differential of -2 days (19 of 32), with week 6 (+7), week 7 (-3), week 14 (+3), week 15 (-3), week 16 (-4); the bye falls in week 5, they play 2 Thursday games, and 2 of their final four games are divisional. The slate has 6 kickoffs 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 West 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 14 | vs Denver Broncos | — | DIV Mon | W 31–10 |
| 2 | Sep 20 | vs Indianapolis Colts | -1 | — | W 33–30 |
| 3 | Sep 27 | at Miami Dolphins | — | — | W 24–10 |
| 4 | Oct 4 | at Las Vegas Raiders | — | DIV | W 30–27 |
| 6 | Oct 18 | vs Los Angeles Chargers | +7 | DIV | W 22–6 |
| 7 | Oct 25 | at Seattle Seahawks | -3 | — | L 3–20 |
| 8 | Nov 1 | at Denver Broncos | — | DIV | — |
| 9 | Nov 8 | vs New York Jets | — | — | — |
| 10 | Nov 15 | at Atlanta Falcons | — | — | — |
| 11 | Nov 22 | vs Arizona Cardinals | — | — | — |
| 12 | Nov 26 | at Buffalo Bills | — | Thu | — |
| 13 | Dec 3 | at Los Angeles Rams | -1 | Thu | — |
| 14 | Dec 13 | at Cincinnati Bengals | +3 | — | — |
| 15 | Dec 21 | vs New England Patriots | -3 | Mon | — |
| 16 | Dec 27 | vs San Francisco 49ers | -4 | — | — |
| 17 | Jan 3 | at Los Angeles Chargers | — | DIV | — |
| 18 | Jan 10 | vs Las Vegas Raiders | — | DIV | — |
Final record 6–11, 362 points scored against 328 allowed (+34). Home 5–4, road 1–7. One-score games (decided by 8 or fewer): 1–9 — the split most likely to regress either way, per the Pythagorean explainer.
Across the 27 seasons in the bundled game log the franchise is 247–190 (.565). Best season in the window: 2024 (15–2); leanest: 2008 (2–14). Franchise moves are joined under the current code (KC), 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.