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 New Orleans Saints enter 2026 off a 6–11 season. Their 2026 opponents went a combined 125–163–1 in 2025 (a .434 strength of schedule, 31 of 32 — the naive prior-year method, whose real forecast error we measured here). The calendar hands them a net rest differential of -7 days (28 of 32), with week 4 (-3), week 9 (+7), week 11 (-7), week 13 (-4); the bye falls in week 8, they play 0 Thursday games, and 3 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 | at Detroit Lions | — | — | — |
| 2 | Sep 20 | at Baltimore Ravens | — | — | — |
| 3 | Sep 27 | vs Las Vegas Raiders | — | — | — |
| 4 | Oct 5 | vs Atlanta Falcons | -3 | DIV Mon | — |
| 5 | Oct 11 | vs Minnesota Vikings | -1 | — | — |
| 6 | Oct 18 | at New York Giants | — | — | — |
| 7 | Oct 25 | vs Pittsburgh Steelers | — | — | — |
| 9 | Nov 8 | vs Cleveland Browns | +7 | — | — |
| 10 | Nov 15 | vs Carolina Panthers | — | DIV | — |
| 11 | Nov 22 | at Chicago Bears | -7 | — | — |
| 12 | Nov 29 | at Cincinnati Bengals | +1 | — | — |
| 13 | Dec 6 | vs Green Bay Packers | -4 | — | — |
| 14 | Dec 13 | at Carolina Panthers | — | DIV | — |
| 15 | Dec 20 | at Tampa Bay Buccaneers | — | DIV | — |
| 16 | Dec 27 | vs Arizona Cardinals | — | — | — |
| 17 | Jan 3 | at Atlanta Falcons | — | DIV | — |
| 18 | Jan 10 | vs Tampa Bay Buccaneers | — | DIV | — |
Final record 6–11, 306 points scored against 383 allowed (-77). Home 3–5, road 3–6. One-score games (decided by 8 or fewer): 3–5 — the split most likely to regress either way, per the Pythagorean explainer.
Across the 27 seasons in our game log the franchise is 234–203 (.535). Best season in the window: 2009 (13–3); leanest: 1999 (3–13). Franchise moves are joined under the current code (NO), 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.