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 Minnesota Vikings enter 2026 off a 9–8 season. Their 2026 opponents went a combined 149–138–2 in 2025 (a .519 strength of schedule, 11 of 32 — the naive prior-year method, whose real forecast error is measured here). The calendar hands them a net rest differential of +4 days (11 of 32), with week 7 (+7), week 12 (-7), week 15 (+3); the bye falls in week 6, they play 1 Thursday game, and 2 of their final four games are divisional. The slate has 4 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 NFC 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 | vs Green Bay Packers | — | DIV | — |
| 2 | Sep 20 | at Chicago Bears | — | DIV | — |
| 3 | Sep 27 | at Tampa Bay Buccaneers | — | — | — |
| 4 | Oct 4 | vs Miami Dolphins | — | — | — |
| 5 | Oct 11 | at New Orleans Saints | +1 | — | — |
| 7 | Oct 25 | vs Indianapolis Colts | +7 | — | — |
| 8 | Nov 1 | at Detroit Lions | — | DIV | — |
| 9 | Nov 9 | vs Buffalo Bills | — | Mon | — |
| 10 | Nov 15 | at Green Bay Packers | -1 | DIV | — |
| 11 | Nov 22 | vs San Francisco 49ers | — | Neutral (Estadio Banorte) | — |
| 12 | Nov 29 | vs Atlanta Falcons | -7 | — | — |
| 13 | Dec 6 | vs Carolina Panthers | +1 | — | — |
| 14 | Dec 10 | at New England Patriots | — | Thu | — |
| 15 | Dec 20 | vs Detroit Lions | +3 | DIV | — |
| 16 | Dec 27 | vs Washington Commanders | — | — | — |
| 17 | Jan 3 | at New York Jets | — | — | — |
| 18 | Jan 10 | vs Chicago Bears | — | DIV | — |
Final record 9–8, 344 points scored against 333 allowed (+11). Home 4–4, road 5–4. One-score games (decided by 8 or fewer): 5–4 — the split most likely to regress either way, per the Pythagorean explainer.
Across the 27 seasons in the bundled game log the franchise is 233–202–2 (.535). Best season in the window: 2024 (14–3); leanest: 2011 (3–13). Franchise moves are joined under the current code (MIN), 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.