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 Los Angeles Chargers enter 2026 off a 11–6 season. Their 2026 opponents went a combined 151–138 in 2025 (a .522 strength of schedule, 9 of 32 — the naive prior-year method, whose real forecast error is measured here). The calendar hands them a net rest differential of -24 days (32 of 32), with week 3 (-3), week 6 (-7), week 8 (+7), week 9 (-7), week 10 (-3), week 12 (-7), week 14 (-7), week 16 (+3); the bye falls in week 7, they play 1 Thursday game, and 2 of their final four games are divisional. The slate has 3 kickoffs at 7 PM ET or later and a longest road stretch of 2 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 13 | vs Arizona Cardinals | — | — | — |
| 2 | Sep 20 | vs Las Vegas Raiders | — | DIV | — |
| 3 | Sep 27 | at Buffalo Bills | -3 | — | — |
| 4 | Oct 4 | at Seattle Seahawks | — | — | — |
| 5 | Oct 11 | vs Denver Broncos | — | DIV | — |
| 6 | Oct 18 | at Kansas City Chiefs | -7 | DIV | — |
| 8 | Nov 1 | at Los Angeles Rams | +7 | — | — |
| 9 | Nov 8 | vs Houston Texans | -7 | — | — |
| 10 | Nov 16 | at Baltimore Ravens | -3 | Mon | — |
| 11 | Nov 22 | vs New York Jets | -1 | — | — |
| 12 | Nov 29 | vs New England Patriots | -7 | — | — |
| 13 | Dec 6 | at Tampa Bay Buccaneers | +1 | — | — |
| 14 | Dec 13 | at Las Vegas Raiders | -7 | DIV | — |
| 15 | Dec 17 | vs San Francisco 49ers | — | Thu | — |
| 16 | Dec 27 | at Miami Dolphins | +3 | — | — |
| 17 | Jan 3 | vs Kansas City Chiefs | — | DIV | — |
| 18 | Jan 10 | at Denver Broncos | — | DIV | — |
Final record 11–6, 368 points scored against 340 allowed (+28). Home 6–3, road 5–3. One-score games (decided by 8 or fewer): 6–2 — the split most likely to regress either way, per the Pythagorean explainer.
Across the 27 seasons in the bundled game log the franchise is 223–214 (.510). Best season in the window: 2006 (14–2); leanest: 2000 (1–15). Franchise moves are joined under the current code (LAC), 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.