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.
By C. B. Zakarian · Updated July 29, 2026
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 we 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. Rest-edge context lives in the schedule-quirks explainer.
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 our 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 July 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.