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 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 we 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. 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 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 | at San Francisco 49ers | — | — | — |
| 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 our 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 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.